Work Quotes - Page 11

• By the work one knows the workman.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Inspirational, Army, Idols

  "The Fables of La Fontaine: Book I". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1668.

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• The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too.

  Mark Twain

  Law, Doe, Cash

  Mark Twain, Bernard L. Stein (1983). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.279, Univ of California Press

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• What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you?

  Aaron Swartz

  Motivational, Important, World

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• Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls...are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.

  James Patterson

  Life, Motivational, Friendship

  James Patterson (2001). “Suzanne's diary for Nicholas: a novel”

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• Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

  Henri Matisse

  Inspirational, Happiness, Good Day

  Henri Matisse (1992). “Jazz”, George Braziller

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• Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger.

  Bill Bradley

  Motivational, Friendship, Forgiveness

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• It's not so much what the job gives you, it's what you give to the job.

  Denis Waitley

  Jobs, Giving

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• Have you beheld a man skillful in his work? Before kings is where he will station himself; he will not station himself before commonplace men.

  Solomon

  Kings, Men, Skillful

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• Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

  Bill Gates

  Funny, Success, Hilarious

  "Are We All Nerds Now?" by Matthew Kitchen, www.esquire.com. May 25, 2013.

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  The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

  Harry Golden

  Inspirational, Motivational, Good Luck

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• Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.

  James Allen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow. The work you produce today will create your future.

  Bruce Mau

  Time, Children, Future

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  I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

  Joseph Conrad

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Reality

  Heart of Darkness ch. 1 (1902)

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• Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.

  Dmitri Mendeleev

  Looks, Calm, Quiet

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• If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.

  Dale Carnegie

  Motivational, Leadership, Bees And Honey

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Enjoy Your Life And Your Job”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• Luck is predictable; the harder you work, the luckier you get.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Perseverance, Wrestling

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• The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.70, Thomas Nelson Inc

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  Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

  Louis Pasteur

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem". Book by Wayne Dyer, 1975.

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• Work hard to seem infallible and others will work to find our flaws. Admit our shortcomings and others will work to help us be infallible.

  Simon Sinek

  Admitting, Helping, Flaws

  FaceBook post by Simon Sinek from Sep 16, 2015

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• There should be no separation between spontaneous work with an emotional tone and work directed by the intellect. Both are supplementary to each other and must be regarded as intimately connected. Discipline and freedom are thus to be seen as elements of equal weight, each partaking of the other.

  Armin Hofmann

  Freedom, Equality, Emotional

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• I have created nothing really beautiful, really lasting, but if I can inspire one of these youngsters to develop the talent I know they possess, then my monument will be in their work.

  Augusta Savage

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Art

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• The right to life means that a man has the right to support his life by his own work (on any economic level, as high as his ability will carry him); it does not mean that others must provide him with the necessities of life.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Mean, Men

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.93, Penguin

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• Keeping the mind happy makes work effortless. This is the skill for productivity!

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• What every employer is looking for is not someone who can do the job, but someone who can reinvent the job.

  Thomas Friedman

  Jobs, Job Well Done, Employers

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