Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe,
our class, and our nation;
and this means we must develop a world perspective.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If he's first class, I'm traveling steerage.
- the movie Libeled Lady (1936)
Money can't buy friends
but it can get you a better class of enemy.
- Spike Milligan
Instead of being presented with stereotypes
by age, sex, color, class, or religion,
children must have the opportunity
to learn that within each range,
some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
- Margaret Mead
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
- Oscar Wilde
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
- Edgar Bergen
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
If a man smiles all the time,
he's probably selling something that doesn't work.
- George Carlin
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
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 a cure for worrying,
work is better than whiskey.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
It's work only if I say it's work,
but it's play if I say it's fun.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
- Satchel Paige
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
Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
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.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
- Proverb
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
When nature has work to be done,
she creates a genius to do it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Let us touch the dying, the poor,
the lonely and the unwanted
according to the graces we have received
and let us not be ashamed
or slow to do the humble work.
- Mother Teresa
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
- Samuel Goldwyn
Three Rules of Work:
Out of clutter find simplicity;
From discord find harmony;
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein
My experience has been that work is
almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Nature is my manifestation of God.
I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon,
it will be an entire nation.
For all of us must work to put him there.
- John F. Kennedy
I do not wish to treat friendships daintily,
but with roughest courage.
When they are real, they are
not glass threads or frost-work,
but the solidest thing we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men of lofty genius,
when they are doing the least work,
are most active.
- Leonardo da Vinci
We work with the people not out of pity
but out of respect for their potential for growth and development,
both as individuals and as communities.
- Jimmy Yen
Do not hire a man who does your work for money,
but him who does it for love of it.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
There is no substitute for hard work.
- Thomas Edison
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace
The sum of wisdom is that
time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
- Margaret Mead
The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives
is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
- Brian Tracy
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
- Henry Kaiser
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
What a book a devil's chaplain might write
on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low,
and horribly cruel work of nature!
- Charles Darwin
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
I love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- Bono
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
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vince Lombardi
Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
- Nelson Mandela
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
I find that the harder I work,
the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson
The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You only live once -
but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis
Many hands make light work.
- Proverb
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