981 private quotes tagged work

“I have so many things to work on, and so many ways that I fail. But that's what grace is all about. and I constantly wake up every morning trying to get better, trying to improve, trying to walk closer to God.” — Tim Tebow

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“Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car.” — Patrick Stewart

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“The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.” — Charles de Lint

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“By the work one knows the workman.” — Jean de La Fontaine

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“The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.” — Arnold J. Toynbee

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“Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.” — Gloria Steinem

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“People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.” — Thomas Sowell

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“Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.” — Denis Waitley

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“The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.” — Gabriel Heatter

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“I will continue to work as hard as I can to make this organization proud. Every time I step on the field I will give everything I have and I will leave everything I have on the field every single Sunday.” — Tim Tebow

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“Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.” — Gillian Anderson

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“I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.” — Larry Bird

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“Do not wait the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.” — George Herbert

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“God gave us faculties for our use each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.” — Saint Teresa of Avila

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“Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.” — Chief Joseph

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“I'm not interested in trying to work on people's perceptions. I am who I am, and if you don't take the time to learn about that, then your perception is going to be your problem.” — Jim Brown

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“If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. 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

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“Change is such hard work.” — Billy Crystal

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“Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.” — George Halas

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“Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.” — Susan B. Anthony

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“In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.” — Alice Walker

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“When I get up and work out, I'm working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It's just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.” — Michelle Obama

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“Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we are as women: how others perceive us, how we perceive ourselves, how we live, work and raise our families-or whether we do these things at all.” — Debbie Wasserman Schultz

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“Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.” — Adam Hochschild

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“For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.” — Doug Larson

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