Hard work spotlights the ...

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don\'t turn up at all.
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
 Sam Ewing

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe

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 Sam Ewing
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 Sam Ewing
Life begins as a quest of the child for the man, and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child.
 Sam Ewing
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 Sam Ewing
In many instances, marriage vows would be more accurate if the phrase were changed to 'Until debt do us part'.
 Sam Ewing