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Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success.

– Diana Rankin

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic, is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

– Theodore Roosevelt

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

– Bette Davis

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

– Winston Churchill

It is always a great honour to mention a truth which has not become widespread yet. One of these truths is that man has no soul; he has only 'body' and 'mind'. Man's unshakable belief on the soul will not change this scientific truth! No belief can be higher than the scientific truths! Man can be born, can walk and work and can think without owning a mysterious and an immaterial soul! The soullessness of the man is a great tragedy both for the man and for the religion. But Man, contrary to the religion, will come out with triumph from this tragedy.

– Mehmet Murat ildan

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

– Jerome K. Jerome

It is impossible to enjoy idling unless there is plenty of work to do.

– Jerome K. Jerome

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

– Charles Baudelaire

It is not a question of how well each process works, the question is how well they all work together.

– Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford-Mason, Thinking About Quality

It is not enough merely to exist. It's not enough to say, 'I'm earning enough to support my family. I do my work well. I'm a good father, husband, churchgoer.' That's all very well. But you must do something more. Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

– Albert Schweitzer

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

– W. Somerset Maugham

It is one thing to decry the rat race...that is the good and honorable work of moralists. It is quite another thing to quit the rat race, to drop out, to refuse to run any further--that is the work of the individualist. It is offensive because it is impolite it makes the rebuke personal the individualist calls not his or her behavior into question, but mine.

– Paul Gruchow

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.

– Thomas Carlyle

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

– Mahatma Gandhi

It is true that you are judged by the company you keep. But it is also true that the company you work for is judged by the image you project, and if you to remain on their payroll, dress like a pro.

– Eric Chester

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

– Pablo Picasso

It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past. . .

– Mikhail Gorbachev, (1988)

It's all in the day's work, as the huntsman said when the lion ate him.

– Charles Kingsley

Juanita Ooh that boy's a fine piece of work all right. He's a fine piece of ass though, too.

– Billy Madison

Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.

– William Safire

Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

– Bhagavad Gita

Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.

– Noah Webster

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

– Anne Frank

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

Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality.

– Henri Frdric Amiel

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