Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
- Harry S. Truman
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job:
it's a depression when you lose yours.
- Harry S. Truman
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
- Harry S. Truman
The buck stops here.
- Harry S. Truman
Nothing is more important in our national life
than the welfare of our children.
- Harry S. Truman (when signing the National School Lunch Act in 1946)
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
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
- Edgar Bergen
Most of what we call management consists of
making it difficult for people to get their work done.
- Peter F. Drucker
Anyone can do any amount of work
provided it isn't the work
he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
- Robert Benchley
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
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
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
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
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
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
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
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
- Satchel Paige
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
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
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
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
It's work only if I say it's work,
but it's play if I say it's fun.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
- Proverb
Laziness may appear attractive,
but work gives satisfaction.
- Anne Frank
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
There is no substitute for hard work.
- Thomas Edison
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
I love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- Bono
Three Rules of Work:
Out of clutter find simplicity;
From discord find harmony;
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein
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
The difference between work and play lies 100%
in the attitude of the participant.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
What work I have done I have done because it has been play.
If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.
- Mark Twain
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
- Henry Kaiser
A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work,
and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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
The Tao of the sage is work without effort.
Practice non-action. Work without doing.
- Lao Tzu
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary
to put all the play and learning into childhood,
all the work into middle age,
and all the regrets into old age.
- 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
If in our daily life we can smile,
if we can be peaceful and happy,
not only we, but everyone will profit from it.
This is the most basic kind of peace work.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work
for which he is best suited.
- Napoleon Hill
My experience has been that work is
almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
When was the last time you took
a different route to work ... just because?
Consider shaking up your life a little (or a lot) ...
for no reason, except to do it.
Let your life be an adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Profit is a by-product of work;
happiness is its chief product.
- Henry Ford
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
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do
is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.
- Carl Jung
I have not failed.
I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Edison
There are no secrets to success.
It is the result of preparation,
hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell
The common denominator for success is work.
- John D. Rockefeller
The pay is good and I can walk to work.
- John F. Kennedy
Many hands make light work.
- Proverb
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin
There is joy in work.
There is no happiness except in the realization
that we have accomplished something.
- Henry Ford
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
- Samuel Goldwyn
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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