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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders andabsurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you

shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your oldnonsense.

Benjamin F. FairlessWhat is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential

ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your

opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Dale CarnegieCriticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can

be fatal to your career.


Kahlil Gibran

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it isbetter that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of

the people who work with joy.

Johnny CarsonNever continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like

yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you

will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Bobby UnserDesire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with

hidden talents. Desire.


Pope John XXIII

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about yourfrustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you

tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

Brian Tracy

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you mustbecome a worthwhile person in your own self-development.


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Lou Holtz

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a

lot from it.


Mark Twain

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that,

but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Hamilton HoltNothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only

way to accomplish results that last.

Napoleon Hill

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those

plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.


Brian Tracy

Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes for averageperformance.

Harland Sanders

You got to like your work. You have got to like what you are doing, you have got to be

doing something worthwhile so you can like it - because it is worthwhile, that it makes a

difference, don't you see?

Indira Gandhi

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.


Henry L. Doherty

Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but

for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.

Jack WelchWe know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity

lies - in the minds of those closest to the work.

Oscar Wilde

Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to


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take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in

which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.


Orison Swett MardenAnalyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a

career.

Jim Rohn

Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.

Dale Carnegie

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all you

heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never

be yours.


Harding Lawrence

Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.

Calvin Coolidge

Our real problem is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action todayto ensure our strength tomorrow.

Brian Tracy

The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and respectyourself.


John Ruskin

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by

it.

William James

If you want a confidence, act as if you already have it. Try the "as if" technique.

Jim Rohn

The guy says, "When you work where I work, by the time you get home, it's late. You'vegot to have a bite to eat, watch a little TV, relax and get to bed. You can't sit up half the

night planning, planning, planning." And he's the same guy who is behind on his car

payment!



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Fernando Flores

Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.

Napoleon HillEveryone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Arthur Ashe

One important key to success is self confidence. An important key to self confidence is

preparation.


John Ruskin

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must

be fit for it: They must not do too much of it: And they must have a sense of success in it.

Theodore RooseveltFar and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth

doing.

William Patten

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time youconquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones

will tend to take care of themselves.


Robert FrostThe world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

Jim Rohn

You don't have to change that much for it to make a great deal of difference. A few

simple disciplines can have a major impact on how your life works out in the next 90days, let alone in the next 12 months or the next 3 years.

Vince Lombardi

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination

that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.


Earl Nightingale

The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody

else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual.

Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!


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Proverbs

Hard work means prosperity; only a fool idles away his time.

Margaret ThatcherI do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work.


James M. Barrie

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

Denis WaitleyThe results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

Vincent Van Gogh

Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what you

were put on earth to do. With such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual incalling.


Elbert Hubbard

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything

else, is always a portrait of himself.

Earl Nightingale

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of

your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time tothe best possible use.

Robert Frost

The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours

a week.


Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

Dale Carnegie

The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger (praise) will hold people inthe palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.

Marcia Wieder

When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment,

time doesn't exist and we are truly free.


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Thomas A. Edison

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like

work.

George C. Hubbs

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and canbe made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as

you are.

Mark Twain

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is

still to do.

Nolan Bushnell

The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

Edwin H. StuartMen who do things without being told draw the most wages.


Mary Kay Ash

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. Youcan go as far as you mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.

Brian Tracy

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

Thomas A. Edison

Work while others are wishing.


Vincent LombardiThe harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.

Thomas Jefferson

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.


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Denis Waitley

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makesthe view from the top so exhilarating.

Unknown Author

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Stephen B. Leacock

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imaginethat Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.


Ann Landers

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Henry FordNothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Elbert Hubbard

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.


James Allen

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts willinevitably bring about right results.

Confucius

Look for an occupation that you like, and you will not need to labor for a single day inyour life.

Thomas A. Edison

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; theycame by work.


Dennis Gunston

Anyone who can be replaced by a machine deserves to be.

Joe GibbsPeople who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.


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William Ernest Hocking

I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he

will look forward with the work.


Sir William Osler

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire

energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

James AllenDream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise

of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

Joseph Barbara

Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.


George Bernard Shaw

The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy

or not. The cure is occupation.

Harry S. TrumanI found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had

in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.

BuddhaYour work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself toit.That's the mark of a true professional.


William Lyon Phelps

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life worksome occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

Sam Ewing

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn uptheir noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Mark Twain

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is

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Brian G. Jett

It's easy to figure out who isn't a team player. They'll constantly remind the coach just

how good they are.

John Ruskin

What we think or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only thing ofconsequence is what we do.

Dale CarnegieThere is no substitute for hard work.


Thomas A. Edison

If people knew how hard I worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful

at all.

Nido Qubein

If what you're working for really matters, you'll give it all you've got.

George Sand

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.


John Ruskin

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

Mark Twain

The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.

Samuel JohnsonWhat is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. That's the mark of a

true professional.


Elbert Hubbard

Dreams can come true, but there is a secret. They're realized through the magic ofpersistence, determination, commitment, passion, practice, focus and hard work. They

happen a step at a time, manifested over years, not weeks.

AristotlePleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.


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Helen Keller

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks.


Thomas A. EdisonBeing busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or

accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning,

intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

Johann Sebastian BachI was made to work. If you are equally industrious, you will be equally successful.

Confucius

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of

knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and

shakers in our society for the indefinite future.


Henry Ford

You cant build a reputation on what you're going to do.

Ronnie MilsapWork for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Thomas Carlyle

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.


Richard BachThe more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Dale Carnegie

If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.

Author Unknown

Ideas are funny little things. They don't work unless you do.


Mahatma Gandhi

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


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Sarah Bolton

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of work.

Katherine GrahamTo love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?


Richard Bach

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeedtheres so little competition.

David SarnoffNobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work, love his job.

Author Unknown

You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give.


Pablo CasalsYou must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.

Buddha

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.


Elbert Hubbard

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

David McCullough

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

Vincent Lombardi

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company

work, a society work, a civilization work.


John D. RockefellerThe common denominator for success is work.


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Emile Zola

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

Og MandinoWork as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today.


Dr. Armand Hammer

When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.

Henry FordIt is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire a man, not his

history.

Nan S. Russell

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.


Earl Nightingale

I don't know anything of luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do.

Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

George Bernard ShawA life spent in making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a life

spent doing nothing.

George P. Burnham

"I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything; "I will try" has performed wonders.


Leo Buscaglia

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

Henry J. Kaiser

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Anne FrankLaziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.


Thomas Carlyle

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.


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Bob Anderson

You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the

organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got somesphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

Kareem Abdul-JabarYou don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.


William John BennettThere are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.

Jim Rohn

The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.

Robert FrostThe 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.


Jim Ryun

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Harry Golden

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Thomas A. Edison

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of oneextraordinary man.


Norman Vincent Peale

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things.

When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

Margaret Fuller

Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out

of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that whichcan be done just as well as now.


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Will Schultz

Joy comes from using your potential.


Ralph Waldo EmersonWhat you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

Charles L. Allen

The work praises the man.

C. MalesherbesWe would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.


Kahlil GibranIf you cannot work with love but only with distaste it is better that you should leave your

work.

Harvey Mackay

Ideas without action are worthless.

Benjamin Disraeli

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.


Anatole France

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also

believe.

Alfred A. MontapertThe greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or

companies.

Catherine Pulsifer

Remember that you are needed. There is at least one important work to be done that will

not be done unless you do it.


Theodore Roosevelt

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.


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Mahatma Gandhi

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.

Theodore RooseveltFar and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth

doing.


James M. Barrie

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

Dale Carnegie

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have

kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Ralph Waldo EmersonThe reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

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