981 private quotes tagged work

“In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.” — Margaret J. Wheatley

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“I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work. Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind.” — George W. Bush

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“It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.” — George MacDonald

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“The days you work are the best days.” — Georgia O'Keeffe

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“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.” — Calvin Coolidge

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“I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. It's not Islam.” — King Hussein I

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“I love my wife and I know she loves me. We're best friends. We're just lucky to have found each other. It takes a lot of work but I just feel very blessed that I found the right person. It's a very fortunate situation and not everyone has that.” — Harry Connick, Jr.

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“Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.” — Ann Rule

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“If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.” — Donald Trump

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“Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today.” — Joel Osteen

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“I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.” — Steve Prefontaine

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“People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.” — Patricia Hewitt

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“As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.” — Katharine Hepburn

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“Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.” — Pope John Paul II

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“Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.” — Walt Disney

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“Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.” — Earl Nightingale

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“Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.” — H. L. Hunt

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“Individuality is founded in feeling and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.” — William James

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“It's hard to do it because you gotta look people in the eye and tell 'em they're irresponsible and lazy. And who's gonna wanna do that? Because that's what poverty is, ladies and gentlemen. In this country, you can succeed if you get educated and work hard. Period. Period.” — Bill O'Reilly

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“I still work out on a daily basis.” — Clint Eastwood

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“I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.” — Ayrton Senna

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“My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.” — Arthur Conan Doyle

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“All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.” — Calvin Coolidge

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“For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.” — Jessica Savitch

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“Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.” — Margaret Thatcher

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