WORK

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“…My Father has kept working until now, and I keep working.” – Jesus Christ – John 5:17 – Apostle John – HOLY SCRIPTURES

Nothing is work unless you’d rather be doing something else. – George Halas (Football Coach)

It’s not the hours in your work that counts—it’s the work in your hours. – Sam Ewing

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure. – Napoleon Hill

Attempt the impossible to improve your work. – Bette Davis

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.  Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. – Lao Tzu

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls, and it looks like work.  – Henry Ford                             

Ambition is a poor excuse for having enough sense to be lazy. – Steven Wright

I worked my way toward divinity. – Bette Midler

A test of maturity is your ability to delay pleasure. – Dave Ramsey

Winning is not a sometime thing.  You don’t win once in a while; you don’t do the right thing once in a while; you do them right all the time.  Winning is a habit.  Unfortunately, so is losing. – Vince Lombardi

Housework, if you do it right, will kill you. – Erma Bombeck

You go to your TV to turn your brain off.  You go to your computer to turn your brain on. – Steve Jobs

If we have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. – Isaac Newton

Running water purifies itself—stagnant water becomes distilled poison. - Gary Pulliam

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first. - Pearl Bailey

Oh, you hate your job?  Why didn’t you say so?  There’s a support group for that—everybody meets down the street at the bar. – Drew Carey

The end of labor is to gain leisure. – Aristotle

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. – Helen Keller

It does not matter how slow you go as long as you don’t stop. – Confucius

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 “There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink and find enjoyment in his hard work.  This too, I have realized, is from the hand of the true God.” – Solomon – Eccl. 2:24  – HOLY SCRIPTURES

If you want anything done, ask a busy person to do it.  The more you do, the more you CAN do. – Lucille Ball

Don’t find fault, find remedy. – Henry Ford

I’m not a has-been—I am a will-be. – Lauren Bacall                                

The poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long as the rich and educated show them how. – Elbert Hubbard

The squeaking wheel doesn’t always get the grease.  Sometimes it gets replaced. – Vic Gold

Work keeps us from three evils—boredom, vice and greed. – Voltaire

No one ever drowned in his own sweat. – Ann Landers

Easy DOESN’T do it. – Al Bernstein

A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish. – Oliver Herford

Many of life’s failures belong to people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. – Thomas Edison                                                        

Developing a good work ethic is key.  Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you are a janitor or taking your first summer job, because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life. – Tyler Perry

Do or do not—there is no try. – Yoda – STAR WARS

How beautiful it is to do nothing and then rest afterward. – Spanish proverb

There are two kinds of people in the world—those who finish what they start and…… – Brad Ramsey          

Cats are intended to prove that not everything in nature has a function. – Garrison Keiller

Being a newspaper columnist is like being married to a nymphomaniac—it’s great for the first two weeks. – Lewis Grizzard

Man who says it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it. – Chinese Proverb

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“Of what benefit is it, brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works?  That faith cannot save him, can it?” – Disciple James (Jesus half-brother) – James 2:14 - HOLY SCRIPTURES

Your talent is God’s gift to you.  What you do with it is your gift back to God. – Leo Buscaglia

Most people work hard enough not to get fired, and get paid just enough money not to quit. – George Carlin

“I simply want to tell you there are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us.  Your father is one of them.” – Miss Maudie (neighbor) to Jem (Phillip Alford) – TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD – Hprton Foote (Screenplay)

Anything worth doing is worth overdoing. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Football teaches you hard work.  It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular results in both business and football. – Roger Staubach

The artist is nothing without his gift, but the gift is nothing without the work. – Emile Zola

“I had a job in the great north woods / working as a cook for a spell / but I never liked it all that much / and one day the axe just fell.” – TANGLED UP IN BLUE – 1973 – Bob Dylan

If I had nine fingers missing, I wouldn’t type any slower. – Mitch Hedberg

Hard work is not punishment. Hard work is the price of admission for the opportunities to reach sustained excellence. – Jay Bilas

Mistakes are a fact of life—it’s the response to error that counts. – Nikki Giovanni

Art is never finished; just abandoned. – Leonardo da Vinci

There are no secrets to success.   It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. – Colin Powell

When all else fails, follow directions. – Someone smart

If you enjoy what you do, you will never work a day in your life. – Aristotle         

We work to become, not to acquire. – Elbert Hubbard

I’ve learned that everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it. – Andy Rooney             

Hard work with no talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy. – Robert Half

The best way to learn is by doing.  The only way to build a strong work ethic is getting your hands dirty. – Alex Spanos

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“Indeed, just as the body without spirit is dead, faith without works is dead.” – Disciple James (Jesus’ half-brother) – James 2:26 – HOLY SCRIPTURES

Honor lies in honest toil. – Grover Cleveland

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. – Newt Gingrich

I’ve learned the value of hard work by working hard. – Margaret Mead

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. – Thomas A. Edison

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest.  You are always beings asked to do more, but you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down. – T. S. Elliot – 1950

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds. – Gordon B. Hinckley

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.  No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. – Elbert Hubbard

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.  – Ann Landers

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. – J. Paul Getty

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work.  I want to achieve it by not dying. – Woody Allen

When you do nothing, how do you know when you’re finished? – Me, many times

At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure.  And the sooner you realize that and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful.  As long as you blame others for the reason you aren’t where you want to be, you will always be a failure. – Erin Cummings

I have not failed.  I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. – Thomas Edison

Work like you don’t need the money.  Love like you’ve never been hurt.  Dance like nobody’s watching. – Satchel Paige

Choose a job you love, and you will never work a day in your life. - Confucius

Individual commitment to a group effort—that is what makes a team work, a society work, a civilization work. – Vince Lombardi

They say a person needs only three things to be truly happy in this world: Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for. – Tom Bodett

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“In fact, when we were with you, we used to give you this order: “If anyone does not want to work, neither let him eat.”” – Apostle Paul – 1 Thess. 3:10 – HOLY SCRIPTURES

Get happiness out of your work, or you may not ever know what happiness is. – Elbert Hubbard

The achievement of our goal should be the starting point of another. – Alexander Graham Bell

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. – Aristotle

Every tub sits on its own bottom. – Zig Zigler

The least productive people are usually the ones more in favor of holding meetings.  – Thomas Sowell

Success comes before work only in the dictionary. – Coach Vince Lombardi

Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years. – Bill Gates

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Work while others are wishing. – Thomas A. Edison

The great do what they like—the little do what they can. – Victor Hugo – THE MAN WHO LAUGHS

Always remember, your focus determines your reality. – George Lucas

What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? – Great question!