Work Quotes - Page 12

• The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Motivational, Sports, Dog

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• It has always seemed to me that broken things, just like broken people, get used more; it's probably because God has more pieces to work with.

  Bob Goff

  God, Religious, People

  Bob Goff, Donald Miller (2012). “Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World”, p.57, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I don't know anything about luck, but that the harder I train, the luckier I get.

  Ingemar Stenmark

  Sports, Effort, Luck

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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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• Wages cannot be considered as a gift, because they are due to work, but God has given free grace to all men by the justification of faith.

  Hilary of Poitiers

  God, Faith, Religious

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• If we live the faith in our daily life, then our work too becomes a chance to spread the joy of being a Christian.

  Pope Francis

  God, Faith, Christian

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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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• You think OWS is radical? You think 350.org was radical for helping organize mass civil disobedience in D.C. in August against the Keystone Pipeline? We're not radical. Radicals work for oil companies. The CEO of Exxon gets up every morning and goes to work changing the chemical composition of the atmosphere. No one has ever done anything as radical as that, not in all of human history.

  Bill McKibben

  Change, Morning, Thinking

  "The Most Important News Story of the Day/Millennium" by Bill McKibben, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 5, 2011.

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• Basically, I’m not interested in doing research and I never have been... I’m interested in understanding, which is quite a different thing. And often to understand something you have to work it out yourself because no one else has done it.

  David Blackwell

  Inspirational, Understanding, Different

  Interview with Donald J. Albers, published in Donald J. Albers and Gerald L. Alexanderson "Mathematical People: Profiles and Interviews", 1985.

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• Lord, may I think what you want me to think. May I desire what you want me to desire. May I speak as you want me to speak. May I work as you want me to work.

  Pedro Poveda Castroverde

  God, Christian, Thinking

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• We must establish a personal connection with each other. Connection before content. Without relatedness, no work can occur.

  Peter Block

  Relationship, Communication, Learning

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• I mean, it’s true, nobody talks about them, but when you bring it up, the idea that you have to rent yourself to somebody and follow their orders, and that they own and you work there, and you built it but you don’t own it, that’s a highly unnatural notion. You don’t have to study any complicated theories to see that this is an attack on human dignity.

  Noam Chomsky

  Respect, Mean, Order

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “On Anarchism”, p.109, New Press, The

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• The whole secret of freedom from anxiety over not having enough time lies not in working more hours, but in the proper planning of the hours.

  Frank Bettger

  Time, Freedom, Lying

  Frank Bettger (2009). “How I Raised Myself From Failure”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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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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• What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, say my lines, and do the best I can

  Parker Stevenson

  Morning, Acting, Cinema

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• Prayer does not enable us to do a greater work for God. Prayer is a greater work for God.

  Thomas Chalmers

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Do not be discouraged on account of the greatness of the work; only be humble and faithful. . . . He who scattered Israel has promised to gather them; therefore inasmuch as you are to be instrumental in this great work, He will endow you with power, wisdom, might, and intelligence, and every qualification necessary.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Inspirational, Faith, God

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• Working gets in the way of living.

  Omar Sharif

  Life, Hate, Way

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• Happiness lies in a large measure of self-forgetfulness, either in work . . . or in the love of others. ♥

  Everett Ruess

  Love, Happiness, Happy

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• All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

  Aristotle

  Jobs, Business, Philosophical

  "Politics". Book by Aristotle. Book VIII 1337b.5. "The Politics of Aristotle: Introduction and translation", Clarendon Press, 1885.

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• Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

  Lucille Ball

  Inspirational, Motivational, Uplifting

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• Who works for glory misses oft the goal;
  Who works for money coins his very soul
  Work for the work's sake, then, and it may be,
  That this thing shall be added unto thee.

  Kenyon Cox

  Goal, Missing, Soul

  Kenyon Cox (1905). “Sculptors of the early Italian renaissance. Perugino. Michelangelo. The pictures of Venice. Veronese. Dürer. Rubens. Frans Hals. Rembrandt. William Blake”

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• Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Done, Criminal Mind, Unhappiness

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.1033, Delphi Classics

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• It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Men, Meaning Of Life

  John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle (2010). “Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott”, p.378, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

  Eric Hoffer

  Energy, Done, Discontent

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