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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true
were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
- Orville Wright
There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well.
They must have worked for it.
I only feel angry when I see waste.
When I see people throwing away things that we could use.
- Mother Teresa
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits
and then complain that he's not the man she married?
- Barbra Streisand
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
- Oscar Wilde
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Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
- Edgar Bergen
If a man smiles all the time,
he's probably selling something that doesn't work.
- George Carlin
The third certainty of life, after death and taxes,
is that nothing will work out the way you want.
Life is fully as bad as you think it is.
Choose to live joyfully anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anyone can do any amount of work
provided it isn't the work
he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
- Robert Benchley
Most of what we call management consists of
making it difficult for people to get their work done.
- Peter F. Drucker
As a cure for worrying,
work is better than whiskey.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are two kinds of people,
those who do the work,
and those who take the credit.
Try to be in the first group;
there is less competition there.
- Indira Gandhi
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
Balance good, karate good. Everything good.
Balance bad, better pack up, go home. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Ought-To Need-To Tango:
I am racked with the guilt and the pain of I should,
and I ought, and I can't, but I must.
I can't rest; I can't sleep; I'm just not understood,
and I hate that the world is unjust.
I have work; I have woes; I have troubles for life;
but I don't have a ME that I trust.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
Capitalism tries for a delicate balance:
It attempts to work things out so that
everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from
getting violent and trying to take other people's stuff.
- George Carlin
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
- Proverb
Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
- Satchel Paige
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
It's work only if I say it's work,
but it's play if I say it's fun.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have found out that though the ways in which
I can make myself useful are few,
yet the work open to me is endless.
- Helen Keller
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
- Michael Jordan
The WORK
1.Is it true?
2.Can you absolutely know that it's true?
3.How do you react when you think that thought?
4.Who would you be without the thought?
- Byron Katie
We are free only if we face the challenge of freedom,
do the work of freedom, fight the fight of freedom
and die the death for freedom.
- Charles G. Adams
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
- Henry David Thoreau
People who work together will win,
whether it be against complex football defenses,
or the problems of modern society.
- Vince Lombardi
What a book a devil's chaplain might write
on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low,
and horribly cruel work of nature!
- Charles Darwin
The Tao of the sage is work without effort.
Practice non-action. Work without doing.
- Lao Tzu
When nature has work to be done,
she creates a genius to do it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
Laziness may appear attractive,
but work gives satisfaction.
- Anne Frank
Profit is a by-product of work;
happiness is its chief product.
- Henry Ford
The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do
is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.
- Carl Jung
Do not hire a man who does your work for money,
but him who does it for love of it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
It isn't enough to talk about peace.
One must believe in it.
And it isn't enough to believe in it.
One must work at it.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I find that the harder I work,
the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
The trick is in what one emphasizes.
We either make ourselves miserable,
or we make ourselves happy.
The amount of work is the same.
- Carlos Castaneda
Breaking up is a natural evolution
when you try to figure out what you want in life.
If you're with an individual
who isn't moving in the same direction
and at the same rate that you are,
it ain't going to work.
- Usher Raymond
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work,
so most people don't recognize them.
- Ann Landers
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
- Margaret Mead
If it is surely the means to the highest end we know,
can any work be humble or disgusting?
Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder,
the means by which we are translated?
- Henry David Thoreau
Leaders aren't born they are made.
And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.
And that's the price we'll have to pay
to achieve that goal, or any goal.
- Vince Lombardi
If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
Men of lofty genius,
when they are doing the least work,
are most active.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nature is my manifestation of God.
I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
A man is relieved and gay when he has
put his heart into his work and done his best;
but what he has said or done otherwise
shall give him no peace.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without this playing with fantasy,
no creative work has ever yet come to birth.
The debt we owe to the play of
the imagination is incalculable.
- Carl Jung
Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
- Nelson Mandela
Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin
The common denominator for success is work.
- John D. Rockefeller
The pay is good and I can walk to work.
- John F. Kennedy
We believe that if men have the talent
to invent new machines that put men out of work,
they have the talent to put those men back to work.
- John F. Kennedy
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer
is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt
What are you committed to?
Have you started, or are you still thinking about it -
and making excuses?
Do you work toward your goal each day?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whatever your work and whatever its worth,
No matter how strong or clever,
Some one will sneer if you pause to hear,
And scoff at your best endeavor.
For the target art has a broad expanse,
And wherever you chance to hit it,
Though close be your aim to the bull's-eye fame,
There are those who will never admit it.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning
wondering what my intuition
will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea.
I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.
- Jonas Salk
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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