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
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
- Edgar Bergen
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
- Oscar Wilde
If a man smiles all the time,
he's probably selling something that doesn't work.
- George Carlin
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
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
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
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
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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
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
Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
- Henry David Thoreau
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 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
It's work only if I say it's work,
but it's play if I say it's fun.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
- Proverb
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
The Tao of the sage is work without effort.
Practice non-action. Work without doing.
- Lao Tzu
Football is like life - it requires perseverance,
self-denial, hard work, sacrifice,
dedication and respect for authority.
- Vince Lombardi
I love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- Bono
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
A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists.
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
his troops will feel they did it themselves.
- Lao Tzu
Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
- Nelson Mandela
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work,
so most people don't recognize them.
- Ann Landers
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
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game,
and no matter how great your natural talent,
there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
- Jack Nicklaus
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work
for which he is best suited.
- Napoleon Hill
There are no secrets to success.
It is the result of preparation,
hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell
You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach
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
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
The price of success is hard work,
dedication to the job at hand,
and the determination that whether we win or lose,
we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
- Vince Lombardi
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
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
- Vince Lombardi
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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
You only live once -
but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
The pay is good and I can walk to work.
- John F. Kennedy
Work as smart as you are able.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Men of lofty genius,
when they are doing the least work,
are most active.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vince Lombardi
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
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.
Many hands make light work.
- Proverb
When nature has work to be done,
she creates a genius to do it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do
is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.
- Carl Jung
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
- Margaret Mead
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
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
My experience has been that work is
almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
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