Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Work Quotes from famous authors such as Steve Jobs, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Francis of Assisi, Eliud Kipchoge, Brad Pitt. Let’s look at these pieces of wisdom. We definitely have something to learn from them!
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Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.
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If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.
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If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
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I always tell people that this is a really simple deal: Work hard. If you work hard, follow what’s required and set your priorities right, then you can really perform without taking shortcuts. If you’re taking shortcuts, you can’t be free.
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I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it’s up to me.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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Unemployment is capitalism’s way of getting you to plant a garden.
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It’s not easy to work with me, I recognize that. It’s not easy if those people aren’t as perfectionistic as I am.
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
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The hardest work in the world is being out of work.
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You can be a pretty face, but if you’re not a nice person, it just doesn’t work. I’m not traditionally a beauty, but apparently people think I’m all right. If you’re a nice person, it definitely helps.
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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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It takes a long time to get to be a diva. I mean, you gotta work at it.
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I’ve been so lucky to work with such great people: people that are such hard workers and have such a respect and appreciation for one another.
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If you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.
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Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.
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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
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The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
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Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.
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It has been a long journey, but if you dream and have the ambition and want to work hard, then you can achieve.
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The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.
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Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.
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Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.
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Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.
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It’s all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.
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I believe in hard work, but I believe in vindication as well. You have a few nightmares, I imagine, before you reach your dream.
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Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.
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Whatever you go into, you have to go in there to be the best. There’s no formulas. It’s all about passion and honesty and hard work. It might look glamorous, but it takes a lot of hard work. The blessing with the arts is that you can do it forever.
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Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don’t take anything too seriously, it’ll all work out in the end.
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All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working. There is need to realize the value of work in all its forms whether manual or intellectual, to be called ‘mate,’ to have sympathetic understanding of all forms of activity.
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It’s not all about talent. It’s about dependability, consistency, and being able to improve. If you work hard and you’re coachable, and you understand what you need to do, you can improve.
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All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
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A healthy society rests on three pillars: business, government and civil society, or non-profits. Each has a distinct and important role to play, and all three need to work together synergistically to create the most value for society.
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That’s the thing about awards – it’s for the people who do all the hard work behind the scenes. An award is just a clap at them.
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I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn’t park anywhere near the place.
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A lot of people mistake habit for hard work. Doing something over and over again is not working hard.
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A mentor is someone with a willingness to help others, who has a capacity to inspire, a determination to work hard, a clear sense of vision, an inspiring purpose, a deep sense of integrity and an appreciation for joy.
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My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.
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The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
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Inspiration is one thing and you can’t control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work.
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I did work in a strip club, but I didn’t strip. I danced, and I became very popular.
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If a guy doesn’t work hard and doesn’t play well, he can’t lead anything. All he is, is a talker.
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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
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I’ve worked with a lot of gay and lesbian organizations. I sit on the board of the Empire State Pride Agenda. I’ve also done a lot of work for Broadway Care/Equity Fights AIDS. I think it’s important because, when we can be of service to others, it only enhances our lives. I’ve been helped a lot in my life.
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Honest labor bears a lovely face.
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Education must not simply teach work – it must teach Life.
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The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
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I work to stay alive.
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While you’re going through this process of trying to find the satisfaction in your work, pretend you feel satisfied. Tell yourself you had a good day. Walk through the corridors with a smile rather than a scowl. Your positive energy will radiate. If you act like you’re having fun, you’ll find you are having fun.
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Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.
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Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
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The idea of having a steady job is appealing.
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The harder I work, the luckier I become.
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I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.
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A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.
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Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
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Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life’s work.
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I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
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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.
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Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it’s something that it doesn’t get a day off.
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Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
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Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
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The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity.
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Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don’t let anyone limit your dreams.
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When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.
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Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
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Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.
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Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.
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The world’s pretty big. I have to see everything, do everything, eat everything. You’ll never be as young as you are right now, so while your legs still work, while you still have the breath in your lungs, go. At the end of our lives, we only regret the things we didn’t do.
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I can’t imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.
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We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn’t going to work.
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To continue to work, to continue to love what you do, is certainly a contributing element to one’s longevity and health.
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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
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Assets put money in your pocket, whether you work or not, and liabilities take money from your pocket.
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I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
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It’s like Forrest Gump said, ‘Life is like a box of chocolates.’ Your career is like a box of chocolates – you never know what you’re going to get. But everything you get is going to teach you something along the way and make you the person you are today. That’s the exciting part – it’s an adventure in itself.
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The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
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We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.
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Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it.
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There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.
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I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life’s problems.
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I can’t imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.
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I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun.
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It’s an honor for me to have the opportunity to work with Emilio Estefan.
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Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‘We did it ourselves.’
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To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
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No, I don’t believe in hard work. If something is hard, leave it. Let it come to you. Let it happen.
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A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
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Education and work are the levers to uplift a people.
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I’m not as talented as others, but I have a determination and will that enable me to work a lot harder than anyone else.
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People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.
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Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.
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Love and work… work and love, that’s all there is.
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When you see validation for a life’s work and dedication, it’s a beautiful day.
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Life is a work in progress.
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Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.
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I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have some ability. The sky is the limit to what you can build, and what can happen to you and your family.
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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
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Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.
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There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
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Some of our finest work comes through service to others.
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The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, ‘Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.’
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Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can’t be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.
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Whatever you wanna be, just, at the end of the day, if you’re being a good person, which is not hard to be, and you’re putting positive energy into the world, and you’re appreciative and loving to the people around you that care about you and everybody in general, then it’ll work out.
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You’re blessed if you have the strength to work.
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What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
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You can control two things: your work ethic and your attitude about anything.
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The harder I work, the luckier I get.
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It keeps me humble just to know exactly where I came from and all the hard work I had to put in to be here. It feels good to reminisce about the past.
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It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.
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Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. ‘Get up early, work late – and strike oil.’
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Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
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We’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
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Labor gives birth to ideas.
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All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.
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If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
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The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
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I did a business in a box called College Pro Painters. They taught you how to paint houses, how to hire and fire, how to sell, how to deal with customers. You got a one-year franchise. It was the hardest year of my life in terms of hard work. I won manager of the year. It was very successful.
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No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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I enjoy the work, I enjoy every minute of my professional life.
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I haven’t been out of work since the day I took my pants off.
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I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man’s work for less than a man’s pay.
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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.
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One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
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I think that I was raised by two of the best people ever. My mother and father are just the definition of hard work, like what hard work brings to you. They’ve taught me and my brothers and sisters to set your goals high and to give everything to reach them.
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Honor lies in honest toil.
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Work hard, play hard, dream big, love loads, laugh as much as you can, and give back.
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Developing a good work ethic is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you’re a janitor or taking your first summer job, because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life.
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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.
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I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
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The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I’ve got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.
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My favorite thing is when we lift a trophy. Afterward, we can have a picture of us lifting a trophy. And that picture shows a lot of work, a lot of difficulty and a lot of sacrifice together.
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As an actor, every opportunity, every role, everything that I do is an opportunity to have someone have a human experience with my work. I don’t just want it to be about a cute wardrobe and a high paycheck.
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Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!
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Sometimes it takes dealing with a disability – the trauma, the relearning, the months of rehabilitation therapy – to uncover our true abilities and how we can put them to work for us in ways we may have never imagined.
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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.
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Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul – the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile.
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Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work.
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The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today’s work superbly well.
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Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.
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Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.
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A work of art doesn’t exist outside the perception of the audience.
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Quality is everyone’s responsibility.
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The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.
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An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.
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I’m proud of my work and how far I’ve come, and I’m proud of the way that I did it.
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Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We’re dreamers, you see, but we’re also realists, of a sort.
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I’m working myself to death.
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An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
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In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won’t be able to do this.
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Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
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Give me love and work – these two only.
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I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.
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Be extra careful in the work environment with those who like to maintain their position through charm and being political, rather than getting things done. They are very prone to envying and hating those who work hard and get results. They will slander and sabotage you without any warning.
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We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.
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It’s not that hard to be good, you can be good off raw talent. But I feel like it’s that extra step, doing work and putting a body of work in and doing things when nobody else is watching. When nobody else is telling you to do it, you’re pushing yourself to do it.
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Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
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If you’re not willing to put in the hard work, to endure and fail, there’s no point. You win only if you’re willing to do whatever it takes.
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Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.
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We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you.
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The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
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I’ve learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.
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I am very proud of my mom and consider her the most courageous woman I know. With perseverance, sacrifice and hard work, she raised a family of Olympic athletes and gave us the tools and the spirit to succeed. That is something that my brothers and I will always be thankful for.
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It is in my nature to give the work I have all the discipline and due diligence that I am capable of.
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Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.
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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.
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We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
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Our responsibility in life is not to lie around and wait for things to happen. Our responsibility in life is to work. Life is getting out and getting things done. When people say they’re over-the-hill at age 50, I don’t understand it.
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I’ve got more in common with a three-toed sloth than I have with Winston Churchill. There is no easy comparison with any modern politician. The more you read about him, the more completely amazed you are about what he did – his energy, his literary fecundity, his ability to work – just unbelievable energy.
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America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
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Don’t worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
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Work isn’t to make money; you work to justify life.
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People can say what they want, but at the end of the day, I’m going to keep working on my game. I always know I have things to work on.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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We should always look upon ourselves as God’s servants, placed in God’s world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.
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Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
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It’s the best feeling when you wake up and it’s warm and cozy, and you don’t have to go to work.
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Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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Honestly, it’s not the medals that I feel so proud of. It’s the way I conducted myself as an athlete, the hard work that I put forward.
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In football, everything is possible, from the moment you work and you believe in your qualities.
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Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.
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Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.
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Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.
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Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
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Nothing is given to you. Everything is earned. You have to have that mindset that you have to work every single day. Learn every single day.
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Every time you work on a political campaign, half the people hate you. That’s how it is.
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Liquid architecture. It’s like jazz – you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it’s a way of – for me, it’s a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.
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Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.
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Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them.
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I feel I am lucky. I am grateful for this life that God has given me. I am happy, as I am getting to do work that I want to do and enjoy doing it.
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For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I’m not sure where I’m going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn’t do it.
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A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
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You will have ups and downs – but believe anything is possible. With hard work, it can come off.
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Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
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From my earliest childhood, my attention was specially directed to the subject of acoustics, and specially to the subject of speech, and I was urged by my father to study everything relating to these subjects, as they would have an important bearing upon what was to be my professional work.
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Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.
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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
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Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
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We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
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Man was made at the end of the week’s work, when God was tired.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.
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Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
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A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
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When you have a dream that you can’t let go of, trust your instincts and pursue it. But remember: Real dreams take work, They take patience, and sometimes they require you to dig down very deep. Be sure you’re willing to do that.
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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the ‘why’ for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any ‘how.’
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You just have to find that thing that’s special about you that distinguishes you from all the others, and through true talent, hard work, and passion, anything can happen.
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Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
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Be original. That’s my best advice. You’re going to find that there’s something that you do well, and try to do it with as much originality as you can, and don’t skimp on the words. Work on the words.
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Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
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It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
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No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.
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Many hands make light work.
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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
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Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.
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From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.
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Some people say video games rot your brain, but I think they work different muscles that maybe you don’t normally use.
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I tend to be so lost in the work that I don’t notice the weather. My partner will come home and say, ‘Beautiful day, wasn’t it?’ and I’ll say, ‘Was it?’ as I won’t have noticed the real world at all.
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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.
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Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.
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When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.
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I just aspire to be the best I can be. I want to work hard and set one goal at a time for myself.
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When you are on the field as a captain, the mind is always working. You cannot relax at any point of time. You are always focussing on what is going to be the next move, what if it doesn’t work, what if the situation changes and you have to change your plan.
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.
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If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
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Management must manage!
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We collectively, to get things done, work together as a team. Because the work really happens horizontally in our company, not vertically. Products are horizontal. It takes hardware plus software plus services to make a killer product.
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Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
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Work harder than anybody you’ve ever seen. That’s what I believe.
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Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
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It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
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I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool – and I’m not any of those – to say that I don’t write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues.
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A true flag is not something you can really design. A true flag is torn from the soul of the people. A flag is something that everyone owns, and that’s why they work. The Rainbow Flag is like other flags in that sense: it belongs to the people.
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Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
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I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.
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You can’t get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.
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There is no substitute for hard work.
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Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.
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When you enjoy what you do, work becomes play.
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Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.
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I feel I’m anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren’t self-portraits. Sometimes I disappear.
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When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
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Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
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That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
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As an actor, to have achieved financial stability is amazing. But I always have this weird fear that I’m not going to get any more work; it’s about not having enough money.
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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
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If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood, sweat, and tears.
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People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Don’t do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.
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In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.
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A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
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I don’t live to work; I work to live.
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We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
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Inspiration comes of working every day.
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Everyone wants to be safe. Well, I got news for you: You can’t be safe. Life’s not safe. Your work isn’t safe. When you leave the house, it isn’t safe. The air you breathe isn’t going to be safe, not for very long. That’s why you have to enjoy the moment.
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There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It’s a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you ‘play’ with them!
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Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
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It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
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Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.
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It was a privilege and an honor to work alongside Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper. Working with people at the top of their game was like a master class.
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Work is much more fun than fun.
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Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.
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There is no short-cut to success. Whether you want to be an engineer, a charted accountant or a fashion model you must work hard.
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Never continue in a job you don’t enjoy. If you’re happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself, you’ll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.
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If you’re going to preach dedication, work ethic, teamwork, unselfishness, and being part of a team to accomplish a common goal, you have to live it – you can’t just talk about it.
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You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.
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I’m thankful for the work that feminists like Gloria Steinem have done. I am a feminist, but the geography for women today is vastly different than it was in the ’60s.
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When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.
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A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Creating a better world requires teamwork, partnerships, and collaboration, as we need an entire army of companies to work together to build a better world within the next few decades. This means corporations must embrace the benefits of cooperating with one another.
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Work hard for what you want because it won’t come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.
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We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we’ve established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
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Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
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It’s not the tools that you have faith in – tools are just tools. They work, or they don’t work. It’s people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I’m still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.
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Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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Self-government won’t work without self-discipline.
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After you’ve done all the work and prepared as much as you can, what the hell, you might as well go out and have a good time.
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I never do anything half-heartedly. I will continue to work hard and play hard and do everything I can to be successful, whatever I do.
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If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
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There is no substitute for hard work. Never give up. Never stop believing. Never stop fighting.
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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
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Behaving like a princess is work. It’s not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It’s more about how you are inside.
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Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.
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A lot of hard work is hidden behind nice things.
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I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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Every man’s work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.
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You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.
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Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
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Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
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I’m going to work so that it’s a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.
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Good work has a snowball effect, it keeps leading to more good work.
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Don’t work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.
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Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
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When I worked in the city, it was about survival. Now when I work in the countryside, I feel like I’m truly living.
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Always work hard and have fun in what you do because I think that’s when you’re more successful. You have to choose to do it.
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Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
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Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.
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Live like you’ll die tomorrow, work like you don’t need the money, and dance like nobody’s watching.
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We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community.
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If you have a dream, it’s definitely achievable through hard work, through dedication, sacrifice, everything.
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Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny. This second, we can turn the tables on Resistance. This second, we can sit down and do our work.
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Of all the things I’ve done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.
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It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
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I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I’ve been able to achieve through hard work and perseverance. And I guarantee you that anyone who tries to say otherwise hasn’t walked a day in my shoes.
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I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my country, Canada, whose people have, I think, shown their devotion to peace.
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Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.
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It is easy to make promises – it is hard work to keep them.
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Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
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Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.
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God Bless my mother and father for all the hard work they’ve done for our family.
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The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then they get elected and prove it.
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Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
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There is no magic wand that can resolve our problems. The solution rests with our work and discipline.
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I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
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Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.
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It’s not the work which kills people, it’s the worry. It’s not the revolution that destroys machinery it’s the friction.
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One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself.
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To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
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If you love your work, you’ll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you – like a fever.
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How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you’re a dead man? You go to work.
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Give me love and work – these two only.
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When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.
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We all live in the same house, we all must be part of the effort to hold down our little house. When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just… do something about it. Say something. Have the courage. Have the backbone. Get in the way. Walk with the wind. It’s all going to work out.
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Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.
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It’s the best feeling when you wake up and it’s warm and cozy, and you don’t have to go to work.
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Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
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A dream doesn’t become reality through magic. It takes sweat, determination, and hard work.
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Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
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Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.
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I think that passion is the secret ingredient that drives hard work and excellence. My passion is to serve the public: to be in the arena of public policy, to have the opportunity to solve problems for our country, to be in a position where I can make a difference.
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I’m proud of my hard work. Working hard won’t always lead to the exact things we desire. There are many things I’ve wanted that I haven’t always gotten. But, I have a great satisfaction in the blessings from my mother and father, who instilled a great work ethic in me both personally and professionally.
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My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
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Education must lead us from the irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgment. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order. Therefore, let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.
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The harder you work… and visualize something, the luckier you get.
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Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
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Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
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I’m far from being god, but I work god damn hard.
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The three ordinary things that we often don’t pay enough attention to, but which I believe are the drivers of all success, are hard work, perseverance, and basic honesty.
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I’m coming to this world not to work. I want to come to this world to enjoy my life. I don’t want to die in my office. I want to die on the beaches.
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I am not an optimist. I’m a very serious possibilist. It’s a new category where we take emotion apart and we just work analytically with the world.
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It’s enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work.
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If you watch a game, it’s fun. If you play it, it’s recreation. If you work at it, it’s golf.
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Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
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Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.
358
Efficiency is a great secret that can drop us right into our ideal life path, but it is a hard one to practice and something that takes constant maintenance and work.
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Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.
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My beliefs are that good people who work hard get their rewards. There will be struggle at times and hurdles along the way – life throws up all sorts – but in the end, you will prevail if you stick to the right path.
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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.
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All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
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If you’re trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I’ve had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don’t have to stop you. 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.
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Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
365
Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.
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If the vegan diet doesn’t work out for you, at least you can do something for animals – whether that’s the way you eat or the way you dress, everything helps, really.
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Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
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I’m going to work so that it’s a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.
369
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
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My story is going to be completely different than someone else’s story in terms of hard work. What I might feel like is hard work, another person is dying to do.
371
Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.
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I’ve always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.
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Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.
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You’ve got to put in the work. And you’ve got to play with confidence. You’ve got to believe in yourself.
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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.
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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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If you’ve got the confidence and the work ethic, you can make any dream come true.
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I owe my success to all my teammates. It is the result of the team work.
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I’m lucky to be part of a team who help to make me look good, and they deserve as much of the credit for my success as I do for the hard work we have all put in on the training ground.
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Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
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Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy – your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.
383
Here’s the thing – if Donald Trump is elected president of the United States, in a kind of historical way, it’s exciting because we will see the actual last president of the United States. It just won’t work after that.
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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
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I think it’s difficult to say what exactly made me become a successful DJ. It depends on so many different things. If I were given an award, I would thank my family, friends, Tiesto and the great team behind me for all their support and hard work. Without them, I wouldn’t be where I am today.
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Sticking to good habits can be hard work, and mistakes are part of the process. Don’t declare failure simply because you messed up or because you’re having trouble reaching your goals. Instead, use your mistakes as opportunities to grow stronger and become better.
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Work is a prayer. And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.
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I am humbled and excited by new opportunities for me to support and share the amazing work NASA is doing to help us travel farther into the solar system and work with the next generation of science and technology leaders.
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The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
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Take your work seriously, but never yourself.
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It’s a good feeling to know you’ve had a good day at work.
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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.
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Well everybody in Casablanca has problems. Yours may work out.
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I always work with a goal – and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.
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It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that’s the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.
396
All things are difficult before they are easy.
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Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
398
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
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Success isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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I like being the underdog so they don’t expect what’s going to happen. It pushes me to work harder and do the things I’m not doing better.
402
It’s like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don’t know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It’s like the throw of the dice.
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Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn’t guarantee success, but without it you don’t have a chance.
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I am always trying to improve and see my weakness and work on it.
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As long as God gives me strength to work and try to make things real for my children, I’m going to work for it – even if it means making the ultimate sacrifice.
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Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.
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Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.
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Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.
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For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.
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Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
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If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.
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No matter how talented you are or naturally gifted you are, there’s no substitute to hard work if you got to maintain standards.
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The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.
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We have much work ahead, to stand still.
