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#1

“When you face adversity, you need to remind yourself that whatever is trying to defeat you could very well be what God will use to promote you.”
― Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

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“You may think there is a lot wrong with you, but there is also a lot right with you.”
― Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

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#3

“We are set in our ways, bound by our perspectives and stuck in our thinking.”
― Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

tags: ideas, moving-on, stuck, thinking

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#4

“A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.”
― Franklin Delano Roosevelt

tags: boats, books, ideas, sailing, ships

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#5

“That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

tags: cats, creativity, ideas

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#6

“Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

tags: belief, development, evolution, intelligence, misattributed-to-einstein, new-ideas, open-mindedness, thought

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#7

“Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.”
― Charles J. Sykes, Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write or Add

tags: humor, misattributed-to-bill-gates, nerd, nerds, work

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#8

“The Seven Social Sins are:

Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.

From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
― Frederick Lewis Donaldson

tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-gandhi, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship

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#9

“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: motivational, work

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#10

“If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.”
― Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider

tags: inspirational, success, work

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#11

“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ”
― William James

tags: action, happiness, motivational, work

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#12

“Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.”
― Anne Frank

tags: work

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#13

“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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#14

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
― Aristotle

tags: work

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#15

“Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother

tags: inspiration

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#16

“Don't mistake activity with achievement.”
― John Wooden

tags: achievement, acquirement, act, action, activity, attainment, completion, conclusion, deed, doing, energy, enterprise, exertion, feat, fulfullment, labor, occurence, perfection, performance, production, service, success, undertaking, venture, work

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#17

“If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

tags: aspiration, dream, work

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#18

“When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: play, work

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#19

“No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: achievement, labor, prize, work

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#20

“A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

tags: mornings, sleep, work

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#21

“All happiness depends on courage and work.”
― Honoré de Balzac

tags: courage, happiness, work

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#22

“...I doubt very seriously whether anyone will hire me.'

What do you mean, babe? You a fine boy with a good education.'

Employers sense in me a denial of their values.' He rolled over onto his back. 'They fear me. I suspect that they can see that I am forced to function in a century I loathe. This was true even when I worked for the New Orleans Public Library.”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

tags: employment, humor, humour, work

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#23

“Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.”
― Donald Trump

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#26

“The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.”
― George Carlin

tags: butterflies, caterpillars, humor, injustice, work

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#27

“In my experience, nothing worthwhile has ever really been all that easy. But it certainly has been worthwhile regardless how difficult it seemed. ”
― Robert Fanney

tags: inspiration, persistence, work

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#28

“God sells us all things at the price of labor.”
― Leonardo Da Vinci

tags: work

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#29

“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.”
― Jimmy Johnson

tags: accomplishment, extra, extraordinary, hard-work, job, work

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#30

“People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.”
― Frederick Douglass

tags: work

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#31

“Always be smarter than the people who hire you.”
― Lena Horne

tags: bosses, employers, employment, intelligence, jobs, work

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#32

“Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.”
― Alasdair Gray

tags: possibility, progress, work

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