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May you find great value in these quotes by Harry S. Truman.
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
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The buck stops here.
- Harry S. Truman
Nothing is more important in our national life
than the welfare of our children.
- Harry S. Truman (when signing the National School Lunch Act in 1946)
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
- Harry S. Truman
You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
- Harry S. Truman
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job:
it's a depression when you lose yours.
- Harry S. Truman
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
Men of lofty genius,
when they are doing the least work,
are most active.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What work I have done I have done because it has been play.
If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.
- Mark Twain
The Tao of the sage is work without effort.
Practice non-action. Work without doing.
- Lao Tzu
Many hands make light work.
- Proverb
The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What are you committed to?
Have you started, or are you still thinking about it -
and making excuses?
Do you work toward your goal each day?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Ecstasy is our very nature;
not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary.
To be ecstatic is natural, spontaneous.
It needs no effort to be ecstatic,
it needs great effort to be miserable.
That's why you look to tired,
because misery is really hard work;
to maintain it is really difficult,
because you are doing something against nature.
- Osho
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
- Vince Lombardi
The difference between work and play lies 100%
in the attitude of the participant.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I have not failed.
I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Edison
When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Work as smart as you are able.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Football is like life - it requires perseverance,
self-denial, hard work, sacrifice,
dedication and respect for authority.
- Vince Lombardi
Leaders aren't born they are made.
And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.
And that's the price we'll have to pay
to achieve that goal, or any goal.
- Vince Lombardi
Laziness may appear attractive,
but work gives satisfaction.
- Anne Frank
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If it is surely the means to the highest end we know,
can any work be humble or disgusting?
Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder,
the means by which we are translated?
- Henry David Thoreau
Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
The trick is in what one emphasizes.
We either make ourselves miserable,
or we make ourselves happy.
The amount of work is the same.
- Carlos Castaneda
There is no substitute for hard work.
- Thomas Edison
You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
- Henry Kaiser
The price of success is hard work,
dedication to the job at hand,
and the determination that whether we win or lose,
we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
- Vince Lombardi
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game,
and no matter how great your natural talent,
there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
- Jack Nicklaus
Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
There is joy in work.
There is no happiness except in the realization
that we have accomplished something.
- Henry Ford
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
There are no secrets to success.
It is the result of preparation,
hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
In dwelling, live close to the ground.
In thinking, keep to the simple.
In conflict, be fair and generous.
In governing, don't try to control.
In work, do what you enjoy.
In family life, be completely present.
- Lao Tzu
The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives
is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
- Brian Tracy
It isn't enough to talk about peace.
One must believe in it.
And it isn't enough to believe in it.
One must work at it.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau
A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists.
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
his troops will feel they did it themselves.
- Lao Tzu
Profit is a by-product of work;
happiness is its chief product.
- Henry Ford
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vince Lombardi
Hard work pays off.
- Anonymous
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work,
so most people don't recognize them.
- Ann Landers
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
- Samuel Goldwyn
The sum of wisdom is that
time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You only live once -
but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer
is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt
My experience has been that work is
almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work,
and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
People who work together will win,
whether it be against complex football defenses,
or the problems of modern society.
- Vince Lombardi
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.
- Lao Tzu
We work with the people not out of pity
but out of respect for their potential for growth and development,
both as individuals and as communities.
- Jimmy Yen
Three Rules of Work:
Out of clutter find simplicity;
From discord find harmony;
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The common denominator for success is work.
- John D. Rockefeller
Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
Balance good, karate good. Everything good.
Balance bad, better pack up, go home. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
- Satchel Paige
I find that the harder I work,
the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
- Michael Jordan
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