Work Quotes - Page 31

• When you want a thing deeply, earnestly and intensely, this feeling of desire reinforces your will and arouses in you the determination to work for the desired object.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Determination, Feelings, Desire

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• If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

  Ogden Nash

  Funny, Money, Crazy

  Ogden Nash (1945). “The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash”, New York : Modern Library

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• The thicker the hay; the easier mowed.

  Alaric I

  Hay, Easier

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• Get work, get work; Be sure 'tis better than what you work to get.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  "The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning: With Two Prose Essays".

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• The fellow who isn't fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.

  B. C. Forbes

  Enthusiasm, Fellows

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• Better to work and fail than to sleep one's life away.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Sleep, Failing

  Jerome K. Jerome “The Selected Work of Jerome K. Jerome”, Library of Alexandria

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• There is a great difference between a young man looking for a situation and one looking for work.

  L. M. Shaw

  Men, Differences, Young

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• Industry cannot flourish if labor languish.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Labor, Languish, Industry

  Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”

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• Since Israel does not differentiate between attacking this group or that, we are saying our people can work individually or collectively to face this aggression.

  Ahmed Yassin

  Teamwork, Israel, People

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• I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things they do well, of the things they need to look at again, of the wells of material they have not even begun to dip their buckets into.

  Tobias Wolff

  Editors, People, Trying

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• Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.

  Mary Ellen Chase

  Father, Sake, Given

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• A paycheck is a sufficient impetus to motivate some employees to do the minimum amount to get by, and for others, the challenge of getting ahead in the organization provides a satisfactory focus for a while. But these incentives alone are rarely strong enough to inspire workers to give their best to their work. For this a vision is needed, an overarching goal that gives meaning to the job, so that an individual can forget himself in the task and experience flow without doubts or regrets. The most important component of such a vision is an ingredient we call soul.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Strong, Jobs, Regret

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• The Jews would not willingly tread upon the smallest piece of paper in their way, but took it up; for possibly, they say, the name of God may be on it. Though there was a little superstition in this, yet truly there is nothing but good religion in it, if we apply it to men. Trample not on any; there may be some work of grace there, that thou knowest not of. The name of God may be written upon that soul thou treadest on; it may be a soul that Christ thought so much of, as to give His precious blood for it; therefore despise it not.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, Blood, Names

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, H. J. Jackson, Kathleen Coburn, Bart Keith Winer (1992). “Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Marginalia (5 v.)”, Bollingen

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• Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mean, Soul, Style

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.118, Рипол Классик

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• You must not allow yourselves to become discouraged. Missionary work brings joy, optimism, and happiness. Don't give Satan an opportunity to discourage you. Here again, work is the answer. The Lord has given us a key by which we can overcome discouragement: "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Happiness, Heart, Opportunity

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• If a worker is deprived of hope to acquire some personal property, what other natural stimulus can be offered him that will inspire him to hard work, labor, saving and sobriety today, when so many nations and men have lost everything and all they have left is their capacity for work?

  Pope Pius XII

  Men, Sobriety, Inspire

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• Yes, there is plenty of hard work for them in addition to that which they do when they appear, smiling and happy, when the curtain goes up. Giving a performance is the least of their worries.

  Florenz Ziegfeld

  Smile, Giving, Worry

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• What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.

  Robert Browning

  Learning, Men, Wind

  Richard Cronin, Robert Browning, Dorothy McMillan (2015). “Robert Browning”, p.418, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; always we are invited to work; only be this limitation observed, that a man shall not for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Learning, Sacrifice, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.69, Penguin

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• All work and no play is not good for the soul

  Felix Sabates

  Play, Soul, All Work And No Play

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• Our elevation must be the result of self-efforts and work of our own hands. No other human power can accomplish it. If we but determine it shall be so, it will be so.

  Martin Delany

  Self, Hands, Effort

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• We started shooting, and then Jodie found out she was pregnant. Forest broke it to me - he'd gone to work and heard it on the radio! It seemed like the movie was doomed. But, like these characters, there was a disregard for all the signs along the way.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Pregnancy, Character, Gone

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• O Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Determination, Effort, Lord

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• At work you worry over the family at home. At home you fret over work left undone. Behold the working woman's stress.

  Elaine A. Cannon

  Family, Stress, Home

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• It's incredible to see labor unions and environmentalists getting together to stop the corporate mentality that destroys both jobs and the environment.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Jobs, Together, Deregulation

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