Work To Be Done Quotes - Page 2

• The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.40, Delta

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• Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

  George Halas

  Work, Office Jobs, Nfl

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• Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

  Coco Chanel

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Believing in Ourselves: The Wisdom of Women". Book by Armand Eisen (p. 15), 1992.

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• True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Happiness, Being Happy, Creativity

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• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Funny, Life, Motivational

  "An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.

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• If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Time, Business, Work

  The Note Book (1927)

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• Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.168, Westminster John Knox Press

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• A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes a lot of hard work.

  Ozwald Boateng

  Dream, Determination, Work

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• Nelson Mandela said: 'It always seems impossible until it's done.' Peace is possible.

  John Bonifaz

  Motivational, Perseverance, War

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• The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  George Bernard Shaw (2010). “Mrs. Warren's Profession”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

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• To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Work, Teaching, Learning

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

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• Let us remind ourselves that our work is far from complete. Where there is poverty and sickness, including AIDS, where human beings are being oppressed, there is more work to be done. Our work is for freedom for all.

  Nelson Mandela

  Done, Poverty, Sickness

  "Stars celebrate 90th birthday" by Damien Francis, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2008.

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• Doing work points the way to new and better work to be done.

  Julia Cameron

  Excellence, Done, Way

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.185, Souvenir Press

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• As from a large heap of flowers many garlands and wreaths are made, so by a mortal in this life there is much good work to be done.

  Gautama Buddha

  Flower, Wreaths, Done

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• Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Work, Law, Numbers

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• I long to be out in the sun with no work to be done.

  Irving Berlin

  Long, Done, Sun

  Song: Lazy 1924

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• Christ's sacrifice stands in glorious proportions with the work to be done. Nothing else or less would suffice. It is a work supernatural, transacted in the plane of nature; and what but such a work could restore the broken order of the soul under evil?

  Horace Bushnell

  Sacrifice, Order, Evil

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert (p. 70), 1895.

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• I do not inveigh against higher education, I simply maintain that the sort of education the colored people of the South stand most in need of, is elementary and industrial. They should be instructed for the work to be done.

  Timothy Thomas Fortune

  People, Needs, Done

  Timothy Thomas Fortune, Seth Moglen (2007). “Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South”, Simon and Schuster

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  As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done.

  Rosa Parks

  Long, People, Being Free

  Rosa Parks, Gregory J. Reed (1994). “Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation”, Zondervan

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• And, in the future, while the dumb show of bohemianism plays itself out in the cookie cutter shape of the politically correct martyr/victim, aesthetic terrorists will not involve themselves in the dubious rewards of celebrity. The best of them will work alone, already a part of the enemy camp, and in chameleon-like style master the fifth-column algorithms to subvert the ancient regime. We won't know them by their name but their compensation will be to affect the outcome of the planet. Until then, there's a lot of work to be done.

  Adam Parfrey

  Play, Names, Dumb

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• The present Hindu society is organised only for spiritual men, and hopelessly crushes out everybody else. Why? Where shall they go who want to enjoy the world a little with its frivolities? Just as our religion takes in all, so should our society. This is to be worked out by first understanding the true principles of our religion and then applying them to society. This is the slow but sure work to be done.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Crush, Spiritual, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1993, Manonmani Publishers

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• If you are honest with yourself and can look into a mirror and believe that you have given 100 percent, you should feel proud. If you cannot, then there is more work to be done.

  John Havlicek

  Basketball, Believe, Nba

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• On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.

  Maya Angelou

  Real, Garden, Play

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• In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Heart

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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