981 private quotes tagged work

“Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

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“People are saying that I'm an alcoholic, and that's not true, because I only drink when I work, and I'm a workaholic.” — Ron White

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“Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“More and more companies are reaching out to their suppliers and contractors to work jointly on issues of sustainability, environmental responsibility, ethics, and compliance.” — Simon Mainwaring

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“The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.” — Kamisese Mara

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“I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine.” — Marlee Matlin

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“The best work is not what is most difficult for you it is what you do best.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

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“To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too d--n hard.” — Carl Sandburg

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“It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. I'd rather spend my energy smiling.” — Eric Davis

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“The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.” — Mia Love

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“I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.” — Lucille Ball

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“Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.” — Orison Swett Marden

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“An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.” — Gertrude Stein

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“Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!” — Og Mandino

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“The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.” — Orison Swett Marden

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“In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this.” — Willie Mays

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“Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.” — Helen Hayes

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“Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.” — Orison Swett Marden

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“I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.” — Andy Warhol

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“Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest.” — Kinky Friedman

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“When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.” — Maxim Gorky

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“Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.” — Marcel Proust

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“I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.” — Albert Schweitzer

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“If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.” — Orison Swett Marden

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“To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.” — Louis L'Amour

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