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Work Quotes by Melody Beattie
- Choosing to take responsibility for ourselves and for the consequences our choices create looks like hard work, but it really sets us free.
- Accept yourself. Love yourself just as you are. Your finest work, your best moments, your joy, peace, and healing come when you love yourself. You…
- Today I will stop trying to control my relationships. I will participate at a reasonable level and let the other person do the same. I…
- Arranging forĀ and allowing ourselves to have fun is an important part of taking care of ourselves. It helps us stay healthy. It helps us work…
- Today I will refuse to jump into the middle of others' affairs, issues, and relationships. I will trust others to work out their own problems,…
- There is honor in all work, in all tasks, but take it one step further. Make what you do a labor of love. Then your…
- Today I will practice healthy giving, understanding that caretaking and compulsive giving don't work. I choose what I want to give, to whom, when, and…
- We don't want to give the controls to someone else; we want those reins ourselves. We want to get our way. And we get upset…
More Work Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach