981 private quotes tagged work

“The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism, economic inequality, is real and growing.” — Jon Meacham

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“Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.” — Mother Teresa

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“There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.” — Mother Teresa

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“I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.” — Francis of Assisi

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“God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.” — Anna Pavlova

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“An honest God is the noblest work of man.” — Robert Green Ingersoll

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“Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.” — Constantin Brancusi

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“God has a plan for all of us, but He expects us to do our share of the work.” — Minnie Pearl

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“Love knows how to form itself. God will do his work if we do ours. Our job is to prepare ourselves for love. When we do, love finds us every time.” — Marianne Williamson

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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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“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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“Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“It feels good to have your work respected again.” — Eminem

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“The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful one must sense him everywhere but never see him.” — Gustave Flaubert

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“I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, He would have put diamonds on the floor.” — Joan Rivers

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“It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.” — Jim Morrison

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“If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.” — Johnny Depp

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“If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.” — Jim Rohn

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“If you're not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I'd rather be with someone who does a horrible job, but gives 110% than with someone who does a good job and gives 60%.” — Will Smith

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“I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.” — Grandma Moses

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“Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.” — John D. Rockefeller

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“You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.” — Johnny Depp

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“A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.” — Guy Kawasaki

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“Inspiration is one thing and you can't control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work.” — Kevin Eubanks

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“The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.” — Marianne Williamson

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