Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:My work philosophy is: WORK, WORK, WORK.[Gidi Pridor] Quote:You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude. But they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you.[Kevin Smith] Quote:The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.[Emile Zola] Quote:I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't part anywhere near the place.[Steven Wright] Quote:When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.[Buckminster Fuller] Quote:I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.[Woody Allen] Quote:All the people throughout my life who were naysayers pissed me off. But they've all given me a fervor; an angry ambition that cannot be stopped - and I look forward to finding a therapist and working on that.[Tobey Maguire] Quote:Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.[Mother Teresa] Quote:Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.[Mother Teresa] Quote:The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.[Mother Teresa] Quote:When you are in any contest you should work as if there were, to the very last minute, a chance to lose it.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.[GK Chesterton] Quote:The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is ignorance of work.[GK Chesterton] Quote:I wish TV had a knob so you could turn up the intelligence. The one marked Brightness doesn't work.[Leo Gallagher] Quote:American business long ago gave up on demanding that prospective employees be honest and hardworking. It has even stopped hoping for employees who are educated enough that they can tell the difference between the men's room and the women's room without having little pictures on the doors.[Dave Barry] Quote:Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth.[Dave Barry] Quote:The Internet is a giant international network of intelligent, informed computer enthusiasts, by which I mean,[Dave Barry] Quote:The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.[Robert Frost] Quote:The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.[Robert Frost] Quote:I can't think of a better way to spread the message of world peace than by working with the NFL and being part of Super Bowl XXVII.[Michael Jackson] Quote: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] Quote:Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.[Edmund Burke] Quote:A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.[Colin Powell] Quote:Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.[Stephen King] Quote:When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:If an American is to amount to anything he must rely upon himself, and not upon the State; he must take pride in his own work, instead of sitting idle to envy the luck of others. He must face life with resolute courage, win victory if he can, and accept defeat if he must, without seeking to place on his fellow man a responsibility which is not theirs.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote: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] Quote:Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.[Ernest Hemingway] Quote:I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.[Thomas Edison] Quote:Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.[Thomas Edison] Quote:There is no substitute for hard work.[Thomas Edison] Quote:It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.[Thomas Edison] Quote:Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.[Thomas Edison] Quote:I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.[Thomas Edison] Quote:I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.[Confucius] Quote:All I've ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work.[Steve Martin] Quote:The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.[Thomas Sowell] Quote:Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.[Thomas Sowell] Quote:When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.[Albert Einstein] Quote:Of course the people dont want war...that is understood. But voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.[Hermann Goering] Quote:I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.[Madonna Ciccone] Quote:The flames kindled on the Fourth of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them.[Thomas Jefferson] Quote:The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is in love, laughter, and work.[Elbert Hubbard] Quote:Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.[Mark Twain] Quote:It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.[Pablo Picasso] Quote:Nothing you can't spell will ever work.[Will Rogers] Quote:If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity.[Daniel Webster] Quote:All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.[Brian Tracy] Quote:The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.[Vince Lombardi] Quote:I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday -- the longer, the better -- from the great boarding school where we are forever working at our arithmetical slates, to take, and give a rest.[Charles Dickens] Quote: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.[Indira Gandhi] Quote:Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.[Tom Stoppard] Quote:Every author should weigh his work and ask, 'Will humanity gain any benefit from it?'[Nachman of Bratslav] Quote:Football is like life, it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.[Vince Lombardi] Quote:Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work a company work, a society work, a civilization work.[Vince Lombardi] Quote:Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:Regarding the debate about faith and works: It?s like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.[George MacDonald] Quote:If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:A finer body of men has never been gathered by any nation than the men who have done the work of building the Panama Canal; the conditions under which they have lived and have done their work have been better than in any similar work ever undertaken in the tropics; they have all felt an eager pride in their work; and they have made not only America but the whole world their debtors by what they have accomplished.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.[Fred Allen] Quote:The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.[Blaise Pascal] Quote:Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.[Henry Ford] Quote: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.[Michael Jordan] Quote:The days you work are the best days.[Georgia O'Keefe] Quote:When you work seven days a week, fourteen hours a day, you get lucky.[Armand Hammer] Quote:If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.[Plato] Quote:The beginning is the most important part of the work.[Plato] Quote:We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.[Robert Wilensky] Quote:I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. [Benjamin Franklin] Quote:If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf. [Bob Hope] Quote:The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. [Pearl Buck] Quote:God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project. [Anonymous] Quote:Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs. [Dale Carnegie] Quote:One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people...well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. [Thomas A. Edison] Quote:I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth. [Carl Sandburg] Quote:Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition. [Sir William Osler] Quote:The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. [Anna Quindlen] Quote:Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. [Ann Landers] Quote: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] Quote:Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. [Alfred Hitchcock] Quote:One of the things that keeps you from dropping them in the nearest volcano is that you had to work too hard to get them. You had to cry, you had to scream, you had to sweat, you had to cuss out health care officials, and when that's all over with, you'll be willing to put up with a lot more from your kids. [Barbara Hall] Quote:Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff. [Frank Zappa] Quote:Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. [Leo Tolstoy] Quote:I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. [Thomas Jefferson] Quote:Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. [Aristotle] Quote:Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love. [Don Marquis] Quote:The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. [Robert Frost] Quote:He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes." [H. L. Mencken] Quote:Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle. [Real Live Preacher] Quote:So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. [Peter Drucker] Quote:One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want. [Sallust] Quote:Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work. [Will Rogers] Quote:Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes. [Henry J. Kaiser] Definitions of: workDefinition: Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically, physical labor.Definition: The matter on which one is at work; that upon which one spends labor; material for working upon; subject of exertion; the thing occupying one; business; duty; as, to take up one's work; to drop one's work. Definition: That which is produced as the result of labor; anything accomplished by exertion or toil; product; performance; fabric; manufacture; in a more general sense, act, deed, service, effect, result, achievement, feat. Definition: Specifically: (a) That which is produced by mental labor; a composition; a book; as, a work, or the works, of Addison. (b) Flowers, figures, or the like, wrought with the needle; embroidery. Definition: Structures in civil, military, or naval engineering, as docks, bridges, embankments, trenches, fortifications, and the like; also, the structures and grounds of a manufacturing establishment; as, iron works; locomotive works; gas works. Definition: The moving parts of a mechanism; as, the works of a watch. Definition: Manner of working; management; treatment; as, unskillful work spoiled the effect. Definition: The causing of motion against a resisting force. The amount of work is proportioned to, and is measured by, the product of the force into the amount of motion along the direction of the force. See Conservation of energy, under Conservation, Unit of work, under Unit, also Foot pound, Horse power, Poundal, and Erg. Definition: Ore before it is dressed. Definition: Performance of moral duties; righteous conduct. Definition: Break; twist. Definition: The causing of motion against a resisting force, measured by the product of the force into the component of the motion resolved along the direction of the force. Definition: Ore before it is dressed. Definition: To labor or operate upon; to give exertion and effort to; to prepare for use, or to utilize, by labor. Definition: To produce or form by labor; to bring forth by exertion or toil; to accomplish; to originate; to effect; as, to work wood or iron into a form desired, or into a utensil; to work cotton or wool into cloth. Definition: To produce by slow degrees, or as if laboriously; to bring gradually into any state by action or motion. Definition: To influence by acting upon; to prevail upon; to manage; to lead. Definition: To form with a needle and thread or yarn; especially, to embroider; as, to work muslin. Definition: To set in motion or action; to direct the action of; to keep at work; to govern; to manage; as, to work a machine. Definition: To cause to ferment, as liquor. |
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