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May you find great value in these Working quotes and sayings.
When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty,
but when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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If being good isn't working - try being outrageous.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Coming together is a beginning;
keeping together is progress;
working together is success.
- Henry Ford
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a secret wisdom-of-the-ages
that holds the key to breaking our
cycle of self-imposed suffering.
The secret wisdom is, "Life is not supposed to be fair."
This is not sad news. This is GLORIOUS news!
Life is not broken. Nothing is wrong.
God has not failed, died, or gone on vacation.
The world is working perfectly. We just misunderstood.
Somewhere along the way, someone got the idea that
life was "supposed" to be "fair,"
and all the trouble started -
expectation, disappointment, resentment, anger -
a whole cycle of suffering that began
with the belief that life is "supposed" to be "fair."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Working at a job you hate is unlikely
to bring you either happiness or success.
Do what you love. You are far more likely to gain success -
recognition and financial reward - if you are working
at something that inspires and excites you.
And, whether wealth follows or not, you will be happy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A working definition of Honor is,
"respect or esteem that has been earned."
Contemplate that for a moment.
It would be very special to earn the respect and esteem
of our family, our friends, our co-workers, our community, wouldn't it?
If anything, it is of even more moment to honor yourself.
Those who are successful and happy earn their own
self-respect and self-esteem.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
- Margaret Mead
There are righteous people working
in a whole rainbow of belief systems -
from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters
to charismatic Catholics.
- Bono
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools,
but the gentle touches of air and water
working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
- Henry David Thoreau
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
I have never found a companion that was
so companionable as solitude.
We are for the most part more lonely
when we go abroad among men
than when we stay in our chambers.
A man thinking or working is always alone,
let him be where he will.
- Henry David Thoreau
Going with the flow doesn't mean that we don't know where we're going;
it means that we are open to multiple ways of getting there.
Going with the flow means that we are aware of an energy
that is larger than our small selves,
and we are open to working with it, not against it.
- Madisyn Taylor
Women want mediocre men,
and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
- Margaret Mead
Measures must always, in a progressive society,
be held superior to men, who are after all,
imperfect instruments, working for their fulfillment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin
Many hands make light work.
- Proverb
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
Men of lofty genius,
when they are doing the least work,
are most active.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The Tao of the sage is work without effort.
Practice non-action. Work without doing.
- Lao Tzu
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace
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
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 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
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
You only live once -
but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis
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
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work,
and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
- Vince Lombardi
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
- Samuel Goldwyn
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
- Henry Kaiser
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vince Lombardi
My experience has been that work is
almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
Profit is a by-product of work;
happiness is its chief product.
- Henry Ford
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
I have not failed.
I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Edison
I find that the harder I work,
the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
Three Rules of Work:
Out of clutter find simplicity;
From discord find harmony;
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein
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
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
Football is like life - it requires perseverance,
self-denial, hard work, sacrifice,
dedication and respect for authority.
- Vince Lombardi
Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
The sum of wisdom is that
time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison
Laziness may appear attractive,
but work gives satisfaction.
- Anne Frank
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
Work as smart as you are able.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work,
so most people don't recognize them.
- Ann Landers
The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives
is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
- Brian Tracy
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
- Satchel Paige
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
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
There is no substitute for hard work.
- Thomas Edison
Hard work pays off.
- Anonymous
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer
is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt
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
People who work together will win,
whether it be against complex football defenses,
or the problems of modern society.
- Vince Lombardi
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
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
There is joy in work.
There is no happiness except in the realization
that we have accomplished something.
- Henry Ford
The common denominator for success is work.
- John D. Rockefeller
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