100 Quotes About Working

Working hard is the only way to get ahead, and it’s an essential part of life. But working hard isn’t always easy. Whether you’re trying to climb the corporate ladder or just trying to pay your bills, we’ve put together a collection of the best quotes about working that will motivate and inspire you to work harder than ever before.

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I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do. I am going to write fire until it comes out of my ears, my eyes, my noseholes--everywhere. Until it's every breath I breathe. I'm going to go out like a fucking meteor! Audre Lorde
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If you use a philosophy education well, you can get your foot in the door of any industry you please. Industries are like the blossoms on a tree while philosophy is the trunk - it holds the tree together, but it often goes unnoticed. Criss Jami
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If money’s the god people worship, I’d rather go worship the devil instead. Jess C. Scott
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Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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One of the first lessons I learned in working life was that you don't need to like every one of your colleagues, and they don't need to like you either. You just have to respect them, and getting their respect in return. Marcella Purnama
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[Poem: Slates of Grey]Sullen faces like slates of grey– What I’d seen on a walk today. Bodies rushing bodies bolting Time for life a disregarding. Money to make and to grow old What about the hands to hold? Deadlines, projects, people to meet What about our own two feet. Sullen faces like slates of grey... What I’d see most anyday. Jess C. Scott
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Your most important “want” should be the one you can control! Shannon L. Alder
When there is life and you are not working towards...
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When there is life and you are not working towards your hope, then that hope will produce no result Topsy Gift
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More often than not, an inspirational or motivational speaker is someone who makes money from telling us that we can do all of the things that we can do … and pretty much all of the things that we cannot do. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Unless they are off duty, no matter how wide it...
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Unless they are off duty, no matter how wide it is, and even when it is sincere, a smile seems fake if the job description of the person who is smiling includes smiling. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard...
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Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers. Edward Abbey
I'd rather teach you how to make BREAD than give...
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I'd rather teach you how to make BREAD than give you a SLICE from my BREAD. Genereux Philip
Many people know they're working, but not what they're working.
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Many people know they're working, but not what they're working. Ljupka Cvetanova
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It was ironic, but when you scratched the surface, most successful men were working for one thing only--to retire--and the sooner the better. Whereas women were the complete opposite. She had never heard a woman say she was working so she could retire to a desert island or to live on a boat. It was probably, she thought, because most women didn't think they deserved to do nothing. Candace Bushnell
Relationships are working either for our good and success, or...
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Relationships are working either for our good and success, or they are harming us Sunday Adelaja
You can't be jealous of someone else's results. You don't...
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You can't be jealous of someone else's results. You don't know the prayer, process, sacrifice, and work they endured for it. Germany Kent
You don't have to be the most educated or the...
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You don't have to be the most educated or the most experienced to start the journey, but the most willing to out-learn and out-work everyone around you. Farshad Asl
A willing spirit, diligently perform the sacred duty.
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A willing spirit, diligently perform the sacred duty. Lailah Gifty Akita
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Because you thought love was just gonna be there. You weren't taught that it had to be made, it had to be mixed, kneaded, recycled. Over and over, you have to keep creating it. Over and over with everyone you love. Over and over. Darnell Lamont Walker
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If you build it well, a satisfaction comes An honor to say I built that with fidelity, Purpose, value and integrity Unknown
In a job you trade your freedom and time for...
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In a job you trade your freedom and time for money. Ken Poirot
Bak stood a moment, as though considering whether the sum...
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Bak stood a moment, as though considering whether the sum total of their shared working life was ending in a minus or a plus. Jussi AdlerOlsen
I devote my life in service of humanity.
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I devote my life in service of humanity. Lailah Gifty Akita
If you have job, be grateful.
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If you have job, be grateful. Lailah Gifty Akita
Some of the most corrupt people that you will meet...
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Some of the most corrupt people that you will meet in life are working in corporate government law enforcement. They make criminals look like amateurs. Steven Magee
Working a 40 hour work week is a very shallow...
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Working a 40 hour work week is a very shallow and unfulfilling experience for many people. Steven Magee
For many people, a western lifestyle equates to living in...
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For many people, a western lifestyle equates to living in a toxic home, working a toxic job, eating toxic food, being sick from your thirties onward and eventually dying from preventable disease. Steven Magee
What separates a weak dreamer and a great dreamer is...
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What separates a weak dreamer and a great dreamer is who is wishing and waiting or who is willing and working. Israelmore Ayivor
When people keep TALKING about you, don't waste time listening...
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When people keep TALKING about you, don't waste time listening to what they say, keep WORKING on what you dream about. Nabil TOUSSI
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I liked to feel I had to do things perfectly; I felt I was earning my freedom. Though I was in hiding, and though I worked every day until midnight, I felt I was much more in charge of myself than I had ever been. V.S. Naipaul
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Our minds become slaves to those we see as having total power to control us and to cause pain to us. We are quick to give up control of ourselves to those who have the power to rule us as long as they also have the power to feed us. This is the fundamental construct of a feudal society. Majid Kazmi
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Working with women is such a rewarding experience because as you interact with them, you realize that although they face various struggles, women have one goal, to see the world change for the better. Gugu Mona
If we push hard now, this next wave can be...
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If we push hard now, this next wave can be the last wave. In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders Sheryl Sandberg
Show me a woman without guilt and I'll show you...
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Show me a woman without guilt and I'll show you a man Sheryl Sandberg
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There are cities that get by on their good looks, offer climate and scenery, views of mountains or oceans, rockbound or with palm trees; and there are cities like Detroit that have to work for a living, whose reason for being might be geographical but whose growth is based on industry, jobs. Detroit has its natural attractions: lakes all over the place, an abundance of trees and four distinct seasons for those who like variety in their weather, everything but hurricanes and earth-quakes. But it’s never been the kind of city people visit and fall in love with because of its charm or think, gee, wouldn’t this be a nice place to live. Elmore Leonard
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A person’s work allows their character to form and provides a creative outlet for their inner world of imaginative thoughts and creative impulses. A person whom fails to find suitable work that allows their soul room to grow will quickly begin eroding into a withered and desiccated being. Kilroy J. Oldster
If you do everything with love and joy, you will...
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If you do everything with love and joy, you will find your soul. Lailah Gifty Akita
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If you see a leader solving one conflict wisely, remember he is working hard to prevent 10 of such from happening! Israelmore Ayivor
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Ninety percent of paid work is time-wasting crap. The world gets by on the other ten. John Derbyshire
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Of course it would be hard. But I remembered what my nurseryman grandfather used to say when I didn’t want to go to school: half the work in the world was done by people who didn’t feel so good today. Rollo Romig
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Let your autobiography contain these words; "I was able to think positively, love affectionately and work efficiently". Thinking, loving and working are what make us different from animals and trees. Israelmore Ayivor
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I used to think of work as a bad word. Back in the corporate world, work was something that prevented me from living, something that kept me from feeling satisfied or fulfilled or passionate. Even the word itself carried with it a negative connotation. Work–bluck! When I left the corporate world, I swore off the word altogether. Noun, verb, adjective– I avoided all of work’s iterations. I no longer ‘went to work, ’ so that was easy to remove from my vocabulary. In fact, I no longer ‘worked’ at all; instead I replaced the word with a more specific verb: I would ‘write’ or ‘teach’ or ‘speak’ or ‘volunteer, ’ but I refused to ‘work.’ I no longer went to the gym to ‘workout’; instead I ‘exercised.’ And I stopped wearing ‘work clothes’; I chose instead to wear ‘dress clothes.’ And I avoided getting ‘worked up, ’ preferring to call it ‘stress’ or ‘anxiety.’ And I didn’t bring my car to the shop to get ‘worked on, ’ deciding instead to have my vehicle ‘repaired.’ Hell, I even avoided ‘handiwork’ 92 and ‘housework, ’ selecting their more banal alternatives. Suffice it to say, I wanted nothing to do with the word. I wanted it not only stricken from my lexicon, but from my memory, erasing every shred of the thing that kept me from pursuing my dream for over a decade. But after a year of that nonsense, I realized something: it wasn’t the word that was bad; it was the meaning I gave to the word. It took removing the word from my everyday speech for a year to discover that it wasn’t a bad word at all. During that year, I had been pursuing my dream, and guess what–when I looked over my shoulder at everything I’d accomplished, I realized that pursuing my dream was, in fact, a lot of work. It took a lot of work to grow a website. It took a lot of work to publish five books. It took a lot of work to embark on a coast-to-coast tour. It took a lot of work to teach my first writing class. It took a lot of work to pursue my dream. Work wasn’t the problem. What I did as my work was the problem. I wasn’t passionate about my work before–my work wasn’t my mission–and so I wanted to escape from work so I could live a more rewarding life, looking to balance out the tedium of the daily grind. But work and life don’t work that way. Even when you’re pursuing your dream, there will be times of boredom and stress and long stretches of drudgery. That’s alright. It’s all worth it in the end. When your work becomes your life’s mission, you no longer need a work-life balance. . Joshua Fields Millburn
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Sometimes the gap between what you are and what you want to be is a little piece of paper called your college degree. So jump. Joyce Rachelle
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A pensive personality and ambivalent attitude towards power and money can cause other people to take a high production or creative person for granted. Kilroy J. Oldster
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The nonessential employees, the type of workers whom remain at home when it snows, are the quickest to complain about how the talented persons of an organization behave. Kilroy J. Oldster
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Each person must implement their preferred problem solving method to address existential questions pertaining to life and death, living and loving, working and playing, resting and restructuring. Kilroy J. Oldster
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Every person is a creator. We create with our ideas and beliefs. Our daily labor creates a worldly cocoon that enfolds us. We mold out of a granite substance not yet hardened the tutelary angels whose ideological formation will guide our passageway through the jungle of life. Kilroy J. Oldster
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I’m a firm believer that most people who do great things are doing them for the first time. Returning to my theory of hiring, I’d rather have someone all fired up to do something for the first time than someone who’s done it before and isn’t that excited to do it again. You rarely go wrong giving someone who is high potential the shot. Marc Andreessen
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A job is the ultimate pyramid scheme. Ken Poirot
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The term "work" is getting thrown around as though everyone seems to be doing so. The question is, working for what? Every time I am at work, it means I am getting closer to my goal. Once you have the vision, you work towards it. J.R. Rim
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There are those who work so they can stop. Stopping is the why of work. There are those who stop so they can work. Working is the why of work. Nick Cave
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If you are looking for a career that may induce a myriad of health conditions into you, I can recommend working at the 13, 796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii, USA. Steven Magee
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Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live. Criss Jami
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If every citizen should recite their national anthem daily, you will develop love to serve your country better. Lailah Gifty Akita
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Albert had created a currency based on gold bullets and McDonald’s game pieces. He’d wanted to call the currency something else, but no one remembered what. So, ’Bertos they were, a play on “Albert, ” coined by Howard, of course, who had also come up with “the FAYZ” to describe their weird little world. Sam had thought Albert was nuts with his obsession with creating money. But the evidence was in: Albert’s system was producing just enough food for kids to survive. And a lot more kids were working. Far fewer were just hanging out. It was no longer impossible to get kids to go into the fields and do the backbreaking work of picking crops. They worked for ’Bertos and spent ’Bertos, and for now at least starvation was just a bad memory. Michael Grant
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Everybody must work even if you are not working for money. You must work to actualize yourself. Sunday Adelaja
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After a decade of working in high altitude astronomy the medical profession discovered that I had a hole in my heart, erratic low blood oxygen levels and brain issues. Heart, lung and brain problems appear to be long term known adverse health aspects of high altitude work and unnatural electromagnetic radiation exposures. Steven Magee
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Work hard to gain the heart of the people; if you gain it, you will gain everything else! Mehmet Murat Ildan
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The amount of people I met that had heart problems surprised me in high altitude astronomy. I had not seen it in other fields. After a decade of working at high altitudes, I was also diagnosed with a heart problem. Steven Magee
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Don't wait, just sweat. Amit Kalantri
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They will cry, he will shout but you must sweat. Amit Kalantri
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When you say “SOMEDAY I’ll Live my dreams, ” that is the eighth day of the week; it never comes. Start working for your dreams TODAY. Vikrmn
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The meaning of life is not celebrating your birth, it is celebrating your work. Amit Kalantri
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By God’s grace and mighty power, we can do great deeds. Lailah Gifty Akita
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Don't live by your thoughts only; live by your words also. Whatever plans you think about, affirm it in your mouth first, declare it and you will succeed in working it out! Words can be powerful! Israelmore Ayivor
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You can not have empty or neutral mind, as long as you work the mind will contain dreams, if you stop working it will contain regrets. Amit Kalantri
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If you are looking for a job that may make you sick, I can recommend working at a high powered solar photovoltaic (PV) utility power plant. Steven Magee
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The USA utility power generation industry subcontracts out their dangerous jobs so that the bad statisitics will not be associated with them. Smart people avoid working for the subcontractors. I have worked directly for a number of subcontractors and overseen subcontractors and their staff were clearly sick, showing behavioral problems and overworked. In some cases they were blatantly breaking OSHA laws. OSHA covers it all up! Unfortunately, the problems can be traced back to OSHA and their wilful lack of enforcement of the law. Steven Magee
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I made the mistake of working at the world's largest telescopes and now show classic health degradation that is associated with that biologically toxic environment. Steven Magee
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I only have one enemy in this world and she can be very complicated. After forty one years, I still haven't figured her out as yet, but I will -trust me- I am still working on a formula for you Algebra. Charmaine J. Forde
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16. Christians should never consult astrologers, psychics, or those who practice witchcraft (see Isaiah 47:13-14). They are usually phonies who only pretend to have extrasensory powers. But in some cases, they are working in cooperation with Satan. Rather than tamper with this evil world, the one true God wants us to bring our needs, problems, and decisions to Him. He has promised to lead us into all truth (see John 8:32). James C. Dobson
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Be-careful for what you wish for it may be seeking you as well... Unknown
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You can always create the life you want. Workhard to fulfill your dreams. Lailah Gifty Akita
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Good well-being promotes good productivity. Lailah Gifty Akita
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Be a hard worker. Work and happiness are like mother and daughter. Work brings forth happiness. Hard work brings great happiness. Enjoy life. Israelmore Ayivor
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Practice patience to get the results but don't be much patient to take actions. Amit Kalantri
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Work and happiness are like mother and daughter; work brings forth happiness, but hard work brings forth great happiness! Israelmore Ayivor
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Success is likened to a deep pit, you have to jump in to get it, then you'll need a ladder of grace to climb out to enjoy it. Michael Bassey Johnson
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Use your youth to do something useful or unique or ultimate. Amit Kalantri
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Doing better is creativity, doing faster is creativity, doing smarter is creativity, doing right is creativity. Amit Kalantri
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Your abilities are not enough to fulfill your wishes, so work considering your wishes and not your abilities. Amit Kalantri
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I don't expect congratulations for successful beginning, what I want is the applaud at successful ending. Amit Kalantri
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At home I am a man, at work I am a machine. Amit Kalantri
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Worship the work not the God, because work is God. Amit Kalantri
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Children take joy in their work and sometimes as adults we forget that's something we should continue doing. Ashley Ormon
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How you spend your time when you are not working or studying says everything about who you are and what is motivating your life. Jennifer Elisabeth
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American culture at large has failed working mothers. Emily Matchar
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The problem is that the media rarely discusses the real reasons behind why women leave their jobs. We hear a lot about the desire to be closer to the children, the love of crafting and gardening, and making food from scratch. But reasons like lack of maternity leave, lack of affordable day care, lack of job training, and unhappiness with the 24/7 work culture-well, those aren't getting very much airtime. Emily Matchar
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I find it a challenge to cooperate in a society where it's considered moral to critique a résumé yet immoral to critique morality. Criss Jami
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Human life and human labour were near. I must struggle on: strive to live and bend to toil like the rest. Unknown
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Clockers" asks--almost in passing, and there's a lot more to it than this--a pretty interesting question: if you choose to work for the minimum wage when everyone around you is pocketing thousands from drug deals, then what does that do to you, to your head and to your heart? (Hornby's thoughts after reading "Clockers" by Richard Price) Nick Hornby
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It is awesome to note that the works your work are working but that should not be a joy. The ultimate joy should be that the works of your work are indelible. Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself. Elizabeth I
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Avoid living in new homes and working in new offices due to the high levels of chemical out-gassing that they exhibit during their first year. Steven Magee
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I don't live to work. I work to live. Before I die I know I lived. Jill Telford
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I never wanted a too die for house, or a too die for car. I always wanted a too die for life. If you were to die tomorrow would you feel like you did everything you wanted to? Loved everyone and meant it? Lived with honesty and integrity? Stood up for what you believed in? Did you work to live or did you live to work? Those that hurt you or upset you did you try to work it out? Did you still love them from a distance even if they hurt you so bad? If not work to change and make it right before it's too late. Remember the house, the car, the money and the material possessions you can't take with you when your gone. All you have is YOU and what YOU were about. Remember that. Jill Telford
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Your life should consist of more than commuting, working, eating, surfing the Internet, sleeping and watching TV. Your life should be filled with purpose-driven experiences and projects that bring excitement, passion, energy, and authentic meaning and joy into your life. Richie Norton
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... you might have been born to work the land. But according to the fate you’ve made for yourself, you were meant to save it. Eric Smith
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We are capable of great works through the mighty power of the Holy Spirit. Lailah Gifty Akita
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To be successful, one has to be one of three bees - the queen bee, the hardest working bee, or the bee that does not fit in. One success is inherited, and the the next one is earned. While the last one is self-sought, self-served, and happens on its own terms. Suzy Kassem