Browsing Quotes With Tag: work (64)
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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.
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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! -
The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
Speaker: Arnold J. ToynbeePosted: 22 Oct 2008 at 9:31 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and Jill a rich widow.
Speaker: Evan EsarPosted: 22 Oct 2008 at 9:30 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.
Speaker: Alfred A. MontapertPosted: 16 Oct 2008 at 10:15 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations.
Speaker: Ralph CharellSource: CareerOnePosted: 12 Oct 2008 at 6:01 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!