981 private quotes tagged work

“It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.” — Philip Green

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“If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.” — Al Goldstein

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“My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.” — Jim Carrey

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“If you have issues with family, friends, and people at work, try and solve these issues head on so you can move on and concentrate on having the life you want.” — Heidi Klum

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“I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.” — Paris Hilton

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“Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.” — Daisaku Ikeda

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“It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.” — Patricia Heaton

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“I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have some ability. The sky is the limit to what you can build, and what can happen to you and your family.” — Sanford I. Weill

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“Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.” — Moliere

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“I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.” — H. P. Lovecraft

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“Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.” — Nicolaus Copernicus

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“To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.” — Ramakrishna

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“Fear God and work hard.” — David Livingstone

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“If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.” — Ben Stein

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“If I don't feel confident about my body, I'm not going to sit at home and feel sorry for myself and not do something about it. It's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.” — Kim Kardashian

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“I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.” — Arnold Schwarzenegger

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“When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.” — Emo Philips

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“It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.” — Lana Turner

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“I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.” — Tom Stoppard

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“I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.” — Lalu Prasad Yadav

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“Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.” — Nikola Tesla

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“There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment the time is always now.” — James A. Baldwin

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“All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.” — Brian Tracy

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“Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.” — Brian Tracy

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“People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not.” — Henry Louis Gates

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