Browsing Quotes With Tag: work (68)
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The doing of something is 90% of the joy of it. The doing of it well is that extra 10%.
Speaker: Mike PescaPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:57 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If Tom had been a grate and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
Speaker: Mark TwainSource: Predictable IrrationalityPosted: 08 Feb 2014 at 7:21 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. I never did like to work, and I don’t deny it. I’d rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh – anything but work.
Speaker: Abraham LincolnPosted: 03 Sep 2012 at 12:50 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.
Speaker: Malcolm GladwellSource: OutliersPosted: 26 Aug 2012 at 1:41 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You have the right to work, but for the work’s sake only. You have no right to the fruits of work. Desire for the fruits of work must never be your motive in working. Never give way to laziness, either.
Perform every action with your heart fixed on the Supreme Lord. Renounce attachment to the fruits. Be even-tempered in success and failure; for it is this evenness of temper which is meant by yoga.
Work done with anxiety about results is far inferior to work done without such anxiety, in the calm of self-surrender. Seek refuge in the knowledge of Brahman. They who work selfishly for results are miserable.Speaker: Bhagavad GitaSource: Franny and ZooeyPosted: 22 Aug 2010 at 6:17 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Speaker: ConfuciusPosted: 11 Nov 2009 at 4:06 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
Speaker: Henry Ward BeacherPosted: 04 Sep 2009 at 8:50 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Men will work hard for money. [Men] will work harder for other men. But men will work hardest of all when they are dedicated to a cause… Duty is never worthily performed until it is performed by one who would gladly do more if only he could.
Posted: 19 Apr 2009 at 8:45 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I’m a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have.
Speaker: F. L. EmersonPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 8:19 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
Speaker: Jerome K. JeromePosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:14 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
As one goes through life one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.
Speaker: Katharine HepburnPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:13 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
Speaker: Bertrand RussellPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:44 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
Speaker: Henry David ThoreauPosted: 17 Nov 2008 at 8:02 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
For me, as soon as money enters the picture, the fun is (mostly) gone; with money comes responsibility, whoever is providing the money buys the right to demand answers and project deadlines. It’s no longer “because I enjoy doing it”, but “because he tells me to”.
Speaker: JustKiddingPosted: 22 Oct 2008 at 4:17 PMComments: 1 -
Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.
Speaker: Albert EinsteinPosted: 22 Oct 2008 at 9:36 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 22 Oct 2008 at 9:35 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Speaker: Vince LombardiPosted: 22 Oct 2008 at 9:35 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.
Speaker: Oscar WildePosted: 22 Oct 2008 at 9:34 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Speaker: Tony DorsettPosted: 22 Oct 2008 at 9:32 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Speaker: Henry FordPosted: 22 Oct 2008 at 9:31 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!