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A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Related topics: Wisdom Life Human-Nature Psychology
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
Balance good, karate good. Everything good.
Balance bad, better pack up, go home. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher 
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
- Proverb
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
I have found out that though the ways in which
I can make myself useful are few,
yet the work open to me is endless.
- Helen Keller
The WORK
1.Is it true?
2.Can you absolutely know that it's true?
3.How do you react when you think that thought?
4.Who would you be without the thought?
- Byron Katie
We are free only if we face the challenge of freedom,
do the work of freedom, fight the fight of freedom
and die the death for freedom.
- Charles G. Adams
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
It's work only if I say it's work,
but it's play if I say it's fun.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
- Henry David Thoreau
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin
If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau
The Tao of the sage is work without effort.
Practice non-action. Work without doing.
- Lao Tzu
Whatever your work and whatever its worth,
No matter how strong or clever,
Some one will sneer if you pause to hear,
And scoff at your best endeavor.
For the target art has a broad expanse,
And wherever you chance to hit it,
Though close be your aim to the bull's-eye fame,
There are those who will never admit it.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
Men of lofty genius,
when they are doing the least work,
are most active.
- Leonardo da Vinci
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
What are you committed to?
Have you started, or are you still thinking about it -
and making excuses?
Do you work toward your goal each day?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The trick is in what one emphasizes.
We either make ourselves miserable,
or we make ourselves happy.
The amount of work is the same.
- Carlos Castaneda
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
- Satchel Paige
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
What work I have done I have done because it has been play.
If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.
- Mark Twain
By nature, we are all creatures of habit.
We instinctively adopt familiar routines for most activities.
We eat about the same number of meals each day -
at more or less the same times.
We have a regular pattern of sleeping -
unless it is perturbed by illness or shift work.
Most everything we do is habitual.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The difference between work and play lies 100%
in the attitude of the participant.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You only live once -
but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game,
and no matter how great your natural talent,
there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
- Jack Nicklaus
The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach
Many hands make light work.
- Proverb
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace
People who work together will win,
whether it be against complex football defenses,
or the problems of modern society.
- Vince Lombardi
If it is surely the means to the highest end we know,
can any work be humble or disgusting?
Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder,
the means by which we are translated?
- Henry David Thoreau
Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vince Lombardi
Three Rules of Work:
Out of clutter find simplicity;
From discord find harmony;
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein
If in our daily life we can smile,
if we can be peaceful and happy,
not only we, but everyone will profit from it.
This is the most basic kind of peace work.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives
is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
- Brian Tracy
When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
It isn't enough to talk about peace.
One must believe in it.
And it isn't enough to believe in it.
One must work at it.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Laziness may appear attractive,
but work gives satisfaction.
- Anne Frank
There is a fine line between perseverance and insanity.
At what point have you tried your best,
and it's time to do something different?
It's a balance - a paradox.
If you get in the habit of giving up
as soon as something gets difficult,
your life won't work,
but if you keep tilting at windmills -
madly trying the same thing again and again,
your life also won't work.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The third certainty of life, after death and taxes,
is that nothing will work out the way you want.
Life is fully as bad as you think it is.
Choose to live joyfully anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
There is joy in work.
There is no happiness except in the realization
that we have accomplished something.
- Henry Ford
I find that the harder I work,
the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
- Vince Lombardi
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work,
and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
From the way most people live,
one would never guess that humans are beings of free will.
Repetition can be a choice, but often it isn't.
The athlete or pianist who practices the same routine
day after day, year after year, has their eye on a goal.
The unending repetition is a conscious choice
in the pursuit of a life dream.
But what about the sameness of most lives?
Observe the morning commute, the after-work drink,
the Sunday football game or religious service -
how many of those people are consciously following their dream,
training their mind, body, and spirit through that daily repetition?
And how many are mindlessly slogging through each day
out of habit and boredom?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Leaders aren't born they are made.
And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.
And that's the price we'll have to pay
to achieve that goal, or any goal.
- Vince Lombardi
In dwelling, live close to the ground.
In thinking, keep to the simple.
In conflict, be fair and generous.
In governing, don't try to control.
In work, do what you enjoy.
In family life, be completely present.
- Lao Tzu
A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
When nature has work to be done,
she creates a genius to do it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
My experience has been that work is
almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
- Henry Kaiser
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits
and then complain that he's not the man she married?
- Barbra Streisand
The common denominator for success is work.
- John D. Rockefeller
The sum of wisdom is that
time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no substitute for hard work.
- Thomas Edison
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
I have not failed.
I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Edison
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