981 private quotes tagged work

“Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” — Stephen King

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“God continues to work miracles in my life.” — Willie Aames

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“The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.” — Thomas Sowell

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“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.” — Alexander Graham Bell

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“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.” — Saint Augustine

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“Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.” — Colin Powell

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“And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.” — Will Smith

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“People say you have to work on your resentments. Yeah, no, I'm gonna hang onto them and they're gonna fuel my attack.” — Charlie Sheen

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“One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.” — Mae West

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“People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.” — Frederick Douglass

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“Tommy Lee Jones is hilarious. I would say, if you look at the body of his work, the character he is most like is the one in 'The Fugitive.' That's how he talks and jokes. That is the type of energy he has.” — Will Smith

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“The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.” — Vince Lombardi

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“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

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“Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.” — Dale Carnegie

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“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

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“My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group there was much less competition.” — Indira Gandhi

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“Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.” — Florence Scovel Shinn

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“There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.” — Allen Boyd

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“Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.” — J. K. Rowling

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“Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.” — Chanakya

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“Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.” — Colin Powell

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“Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.” — Soichiro Honda

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“My work is like my vacation, so in a way every day is like Saturday.” — Ludacris

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“And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.” — Donald Norman

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“I know some people say it's not the best to work with your family, but I have never understood that because it's always worked so well for me.” — Kim Kardashian

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