981 private quotes tagged work

“The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.” — Thomas Merton

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“Life is too short to work so hard.” — Vivien Leigh

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“All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.” — Pope Paul VI

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“Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.” — Vince Lombardi

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“I have so much chaos in my life, it's become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they're wrong.” — Tom Welling

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“How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.” — Jim Valvano

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“I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems.” — James Cash Penney

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“Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation.” — Eileen Caddy

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“What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.” — Pearl Bailey

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“I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.” — Edgar Winter

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“Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.” — Mother Teresa

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“Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your a-s off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.” — Henry Rollins

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“For anything worth having one must pay the price and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.” — John Burroughs

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“Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.” — Satchel Paige

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“For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

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“What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.” — Oprah Winfrey

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“Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.” — Kris Kristofferson

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“I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.” — Jim Carrey

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“But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together it's how our differences work together.” — Michael J. Fox

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“I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work.” — Princess Diana

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“But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don't put the work and the effort into it. You've got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall.” — Anna Benson

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“I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.” — Orson Welles

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“Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence they go stark, raving mad.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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“Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.” — James A. Baldwin

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“A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.” — Charles Erwin Wilson

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