“De longe, o maior prêmio que a vida oferece é a chance de trabalhar muito e se dedicar a algo que valha a pena.”
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
The Square Deal" no Dia do Trabalho, discurso no New York State Agricultural Association, Syracuse, NY (9 de julho de 1903)
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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing
1900s, A Square Deal (1903)
Contexto: Among ourselves we differ in many qualities of body, head, and heart; we are unequally developed, mentally as well as physically. But each of us has the right to ask that he shall be protected from wrong-doing as he does his work and carries his burden through life. No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing; and this is a prize open to every man, for there can be no better worth doing than that done to keep in health and comfort and with reasonable advantages those immediately dependent upon the husband, the father, or the son. There is no room in our healthy American life for the mere idler, for the man or the woman whose object it is throughout life to shirk the duties which life ought to bring. Life can mean nothing worth meaning, unless its prime aim is the doing of duty, the achievement of results worth achieving.
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