Work Quotes - Page 21

• There is no substitute for hard work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Perseverance, Morning

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• While 9-5 and what happens on the job is important, what happens from 5-9, off the job, is infinitely more important.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Time, Jobs

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Mar 26, 2014

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• It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Did Christ finish His work for us? Then there can be no doubt but He will also finish His work in us.

  John Flavel

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

  John Flavel (1836). “The Fountain of Life Opened; Or, A Display of Christ in His Essential and Mediatorial Glory. 1671”, p.351

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• You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude, but they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you.

  Kevin Smith

  Cheating, Women, Caring

  FaceBook post by Kevin Smith from Nov 28, 2011

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• It is interesting that Hindus, when they speak of the creation of the universe do not call it the work of God, they call it the play of God, the Vishnu lila, lila meaning play. And they look upon the whole manifestation of all the universes as a play, as a sport, as a kind of dance — lila perhaps being somewhat related to our word lilt

  Alan Watts

  Dance, God, Sports

  Alan Watts (1997). “Zen and the Beat Way”

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• Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest.

  Kinky Friedman

  Funny, Running, Morning

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• If it doesn't come from your heart, music just doesn't work.

  Levon Helm

  Music, Heart, Drummer

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• For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

  Letter to Theo van Gogh from The Hague, www.webexhibits.org. October 22, 1882.

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• It's tough to get out of bed to do roadwork at 5 am when you've been sleeping in silk pajamas

  Marvin Hagler

  Funny, Sleep, Boxers

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• Prayer is essentially a partnership of the redeemed child of God working hand in hand with God toward the realization of His redemptive purposes on earth.

  Jack W. Hayford

  God, Christian, Religious

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• You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.

  Jerry West

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

  Nelson Mandela

  Friendship, Inspiring, Leadership

  "Long Walk to Freedom". Book by Nelson Mandela, 1995.

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• Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Motivational, Uplifting

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• Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.

  William Moulton Marston

  Butterfly, Chasing Butterflies, Gold

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• The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of work, of short as well as long jumps, of disappointments, and of sweet success.

  Roy Wilkins

  Success, Sweet, Disappointment

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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

  Life, Positive, Good Day

  "Grandma Moses : My Life's History". Book by Grandma Moses, 1951.

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  The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything: the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself.

  Bill Murray

  Jobs, Comedian, Relaxation

  "With Bill Murray, Just Take the Trip". Interview with Dave Itzkoff, www.nytimes.com. November 28, 2012.

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• Do not entertain the notion that you ought to advance in your prayer. If you do, you will only find you have put on the brake instead of the acceleration. All real progress in spiritual things comes gently, imperceptibly, and is the work of God. Our crude efforts spoil it. Know yourself for the childish, limited and dependent soul you are. Remember that the only growth which matters happens without our knowledge and that trying to stretch ourselves is both dangerous and silly. Think of the Infinite Goodness, never of your own state.

  Evelyn Underhill

  God, Christian, Spiritual

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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

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

  Anna Pavlova

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Labor gives birth to ideas.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Creativity, Greatness

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• When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Appropriate Technology: A Focus for the Nineties". Book by Robert William Stevens, 1991.

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• We should so work as if we were to be saved by our works; and so rely on Jesus Christ, as if we did no works.

  Francis Asbury

  Religious, Jesus, Bishops

  Francis Asbury (1821). “The Journal of the Rev. Francis Asbury, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church: From August 7, 1771, to December 7, 1815”, p.231

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