981 private quotes tagged work

“My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.” — Helen Keller

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“Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.” — Anne Frank

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“We work to become, not to acquire.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.” — Mark Twain

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“Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“All things are difficult before they are easy.” — Thomas Fuller

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“Every noble work is at first impossible.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.” — Harry S. Truman

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“Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.” — William Feather

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“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

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“Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?” — Jackie Kennedy

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“If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.” — Richard Dawkins

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“There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.” — Woodrow Wilson

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“It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.” — Steve Jobs

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“The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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“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

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“If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.” — Bob Hope

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“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

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“Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.” — Napoleon Hill

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“Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.” — Nelson Mandela

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“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?” — Khalil Gibran

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“It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.” — Harry S. Truman

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“I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.” — Thomas A. Edison

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