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Work

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All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.--Martin Luther King, Jr.
Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.--Robert Benchley
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.--Dale Carnegie
At the end of the day, you want to respect what you do. In a certain sense, our work is us. We get into it, and it gets into us.--John W. Rowe (in What is a Calling? by Novak)
Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.--Ralph Ransom
But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, form offering unexpected help almost invisibly and anonymously.--Paul Wiener
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.--Alexander Graham
Demand the best from yourself, because others will demand the best from you… Successful people don't simply give a project hard work. They give it their best work.--Win Borden
Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.--Vince Lombardi
Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.--Bill Hybels (Christians in the Workplace)
Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing? What do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you? If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work at it.--Epictetus (The Life That Calls Me)
Do your work; not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishings sake--that little more which is worth all the rest.--Dean Briggs
Even a mosquito doesn't get a slap on the back until it starts to work.--Anonymous
Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.--Leonardo Da Vinci
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.--Theodore Roosevelt
The first duty of a human being is to assume the right relationship to society--more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.--Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The force, the mass of character, mind, heart, or soul that a man can put into any work is the most important factor in that work.--A. P. Peabody
The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self-esteem is excellence, mastery of our work.--Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes)
Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.--Henry Ford
Give yourself something to work toward--constantly.--Mary Kay Ash
Go out and change the world. The more you study, the more you should have--
A GOAL you should be pursuing;
A DREAM your should be launching;
A PLAN you should be executing;
A PROJECT you should be starting;
A POSSIBILITY you should be exploring;
An OPPORTUNITY you should be grabbing;
An IDEA you should be working;
A PROBLEM you should be tackling;
A DECISION you should be making.
The greatest force in the world is a positive idea.--Anonymous
The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work. Many of those who fail most ignominiously do enough to achieve grand success but they labor haphazardly at whatever they are assigned, building up with one hand to tear down with the other. They do not grasp circumstances and change them into opportunities. They have no faculty for turning honest defeats into telling victories. With ability enough and ample time, the major ingredients of success, they are forever throwing back and forth an empty shuttle and the real web of their life is never woven.--Og Mandino
Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.--Joseph Barbara (in Success Secrets of Super Achievers by Stovall)
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.--Sam Ewing
The harder I work, the luckier I get.--Sam Goldwyn
The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not obtained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept
Were toiling upward in the night.--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.--John Ruskin
His brow is wet with honest sweat,
He earns whate'er he can,
And looks the whole world in the face,
For he owes not any man.--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ("The Village Blacksmith)
Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.--Evan Esar
A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.--Dorothy L. Sayers ("Are Woman Human?" Unpopular Opinions)
I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.--Margaret Thatcher
I don't pretend to tell people how to live their lives other than to do the right thing and work hard. Everything else should take care of itself.--Dave Anderson (in Success Secrets of Super Achievers by Stovall)
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.--Pearl S. Buck
I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win--if you don't you won't.--Bruce Jenner
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.--Henry Ward Beecher
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.--George Bernard Shaw
The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.--Albert Einstein
If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.--Robert Louis Stevenson
If I get to pick what I want to do, then it's play...if someone else tells me that I have to do it, then it's work.--Patricia Nourot
If work were nice, the rich would not have left it to the poor.--Haitian proverb
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.--Dale Carnegie
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.--Kahlil Gibran
If you choose a job that you like you will never have to work a day in your life.--Confucius
If you have a job without aggravation, you don't have a job.--Malcolm Forbes
In work, do what you enjoy.--Lao-tzu
Industry and determination can do anything that genius and advantage can do and many things that they cannot.--Theodore Roosevelt
Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.--Madeleine L'Engle
Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success.--Diana Rankin
It is better to wear out than to rust out.--Richard Chamberland
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.--Henry Ford
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.--Anne Frank
Let us realize that:
the privilege to work is a gift,
the power to work is a blessing,
the love of work is success!--David O. McKay
Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work--and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.--Lucille Ball
Luck is always waiting for something to turn up. Labor, with keen eyes and strong will, always turns up something. Luck lies in bed and wishes the postman will bring news of a legacy. Labor turns out at six o'clock and with busy pen or ringing hammer, lays the foundation of a competence. Luck whines. Labor whistles. Luck relies on chance, labor on character.--Richard Cobden
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.--Victor Hugo
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.--Richard Whately
The man who rolls up his sleeves seldom loses his shirt.--Thomas Cowan
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.--Richard Bach
The more one works, the more willing one is to work.-- Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Earl of
The most practical, beautiful, workable philosophy in the world won't work--if you won't.--Zig Ziglar (Zig Ziglar's Little Book of Big Quotes)
The most important question to ask on the job is not "What am I getting?" The most important question to ask on the job is "What am I becoming?"--Jim Rohn ( Jim Rohn's Weekly E-zine - February 11, 2003)
Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.--Edward H. Harriman
My father always told me, "Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life."--Jim Fox
No human pursuit achieves dignity until it can be called work.--Beryl Markham (West with the Night)
Nobody on his deathbed ever said, "I wish I had spent more time at the office."--Paul Tsongas
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.--Henry Ford
One must, however, not just work hard. One must work smart. As the saying goes, the efficient person gets the job done right the effective person gets the right job done.--John-Roger and Peter McWilliams (Do It! Let's Get Off our Buts)
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.--Bertrand Russell
The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.--Helen Gurley Brown
The only thing to do is to hug one's friends tight and do one's job.--Edith Wharton
Plans get you into things but you must work your way out.--Will Rogers
The really idle man get nowhere. The perpetually busy man does not get much farther.--Sir Heneage Ogilvie
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.--Robert Frost
My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.--Johnny Carson
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.--Sir James Barrie
The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupaton.--George Bernard Shaw
Success is dependent upon the glands--sweat glands.--Zig Ziglar
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
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.--Henry Ford
This is the true joy in life--being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a might one; being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown in the scrap heap; being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you consistent.--George Bernard Shaw
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.--Pearl S. Buck (The Joy of Children)
Walking is a form of exercise that loses some appeal when it's done behind a lawn mower.--Gary L. Fletchall
We all do everything, share the work--there's no room around here for a star, for someone to think she's above the others. You're expected to pitch in on whatever needs doing. Nothing is beneath your dignity. But on the other hand, nothing is beyond your reach.--Frances Hasselbein.
We work to become, not to acquire.--Elbert Hubbard (A Thousand and One Epigrams)
Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.--P.T. Barnum
What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking the television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working. That being the case, I believe one of the most important priorities is to do whatever we do as well as we can. We should take pride in that.--Victor Kiam
When work, commitment, and pleasure all become one and you reach that deep well where passion lives, nothing is impossible.--Nancy Coey
When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?--Kahlil Gibran (The Prophet)
Where our joy is, there should our work be.--Tertullian
Without work all life goes rotten.--Albert Camus
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.--Mark Twain
Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.--C. Northcote Parkinson
Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.--Colleen C. Barrett
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.--Kahlil Gibran
Work is much more fun than fun.--Noel Coward
Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.--George Macdonald
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.--George Sand
Work is that which ennobles mankind, making order out of chaos and employing creativity to improve the lot of daily life. Work is the Universe's ordinance for human improvement, and the worker is far more deserving of honor than the idler. Keep in balance with the outer work of the world by not ignoring the necessary inner work of the spirit.--Michael Rawls (from Friday's Inspiration: Remember These Things - 3-12-2004)
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.--James Allen
Working hard overcomes a whole lot of other obstacles. You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people.--Rear Admiral Marsha Evans
Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.--Buddha