981 private quotes tagged work

“If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and better.” — Magic Johnson

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“One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.” — Bo Bennett

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“Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.” — David Sarnoff

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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.” — Gail Devers

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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.” — John Dewey

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“Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.” — Dale Carnegie

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“A dream doesn't become reality through magic it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” — Colin Powell

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“I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.” — Michael Jordan

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“The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.” — Novalis

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“Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.” — Marquis de Sade

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“If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.” — Salma Hayek

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“A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.” — Jeff Bridges

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“If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.” — Gordon Ramsay

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“Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die.” — Ivan Illich

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“I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.” — Nick Cave

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“When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.” — Calvin Coolidge

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“All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.” — John Ruskin

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“Designing is my hobby. If I didn't do what I do for a living - at some point when I don't do this for a living - I'll probably just do design work. I love finding really special pieces of furniture.” — Ellen DeGeneres

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“I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” — Stephen Leacock

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“In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work.” — Lance Armstrong

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“I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.” — Maria Callas

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“By the work one knows the workman.” — Jean de La Fontaine

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“If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.” — Thomas Huxley

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“The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.” — E. W. Howe

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