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We can judge our success at work in many ways. Usually we judge it by how much money we make, what title we have, and how much others recognize our achievements. But if you can go to work each day as a bodhisattva, if your presence at work brings you and others joy, then you have a successful work life. You have succeeded in the present moment, the only moment that exists.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
— Thomas Jefferson
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal. Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong attitude.
— Thomas Jefferson
I firmly believe in luck. And I noticed: the more I work, the luckier I become.
— Thomas Jefferson
A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.
— Thomas Merton
must become convinced and penetrated by the realization that without my love for them they may perhaps not achieve the things God has willed for them.
— Thomas Merton
Greatness is never achieved nor dreams realized apart from great discipline.
— Kay Arthur
There is the claim that Noah and his family were unskilled at shipbuilding and so the feat of building the ark of such a size would be impossible. The Bible reveals that Noah had 500 years under his belt before he was given the instruction to build the ark. Unlike shipbuilders in the ancient world (post-Flood) or even up through the Age of Exploration (~a.d. 1900), few would have a resume such as Noah had! Noah also had 50—75 years (estimate) to research and build the ark.
— Ken Ham
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.
— CS Lewis
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On!' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
— Calvin Coolidge
Any reward that is worth having only comes to the industrious. The success which is made in any walk of life is measured almost exactly by the amout of hard work that is put into it.
— Calvin Coolidge