My father taught me to work, but not to love it. - Abraham Lincoln

"My father taught me to work, but not to love it."

Abraham Lincoln Work

President, Politician American 1809–1865

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"Whatever you are, be a good one."

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

"I am a slow walker, but I never walk back."

"My early history is perfectly characterized by a single line of Gray's Elegy: 'The short and simple annals of the poor.'"

"Hard work never killed anybody."

"Work with purpose and integrity."

"Hard work pays off in the end."

"A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do."