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We work with the people not out of pity
but out of respect for their potential for growth and development,
both as individuals and as communities.
- Jimmy Yen
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"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
Commitment cannot be taught;
it can only be caught.
I refer to the crusading spirit.
Without the crusading spirit,
you may have the starting power
but not the staying power.
- Jimmy Yen
I must dedicate my life to teaching my people,
for only education would make their lot less bitter,
their latent power more strong.
- Jimmy Yen
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Go to the people
Live among them
Learn from them
Love them
Serve them
Plan with them
Start with what they know
Build on what they have.
- Jimmy Yen (Y. C. James Yen)
A worker in the rural reconstruction must have:
The body of an athlete
The attitude of a teacher
The mind of a scientist
The heart of a missionary
The spirit of a crusader.
- Jimmy Yen
Technical know-how of the experts must be transformed
into practical do-how of the people.
- Jimmy Yen
The people are the foundation of the nation.
Our only chance for a lasting peace on earth:
the release of the strength of the common man.
- Jimmy Yen
True independence is not a gift to be received.
It can't be a hand-out to people.
It must be an achievement by the people.
- Jimmy Yen
When we talk about democracy, if the people's
stomach is empty, democracy is also empty.
Democracy can not be installed by fiat;
it must be achieved by the people themselves.
- Jimmy Yen
Relief has its place. But what the people need
is not relief, but release -
release of their own potential for development.
- Jimmy Yen
Outsiders can help, but insiders must do the job.
- Jimmy Yen
Life is an organic whole. The basic problems of the people -
poverty, ignorance, disease and civic inertia - interlock.
To address one problem, we must address all.
Hence our emphasis on an integrated program
of livelihood, education, health and self-government.
- Jimmy Yen
The greatest challenge ...
is not the exploring of the mysteries of the outer space,
but the developing of the millions of God's forgotten children,
the developing peoples of the world,
so they can become our equal
and full partners to build a better world -
a world of freedom and brotherhood.
- Jimmy Yen
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- 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
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin
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
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Football is like life - it requires perseverance,
self-denial, hard work, sacrifice,
dedication and respect for authority.
- Vince Lombardi
Laziness may appear attractive,
but work gives satisfaction.
- Anne Frank
People who work together will win,
whether it be against complex football defenses,
or the problems of modern society.
- Vince Lombardi
I find that the harder I work,
the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
My experience has been that work is
almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
There are no secrets to success.
It is the result of preparation,
hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell
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 Tao of the sage is work without effort.
Practice non-action. Work without doing.
- Lao Tzu
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
- Henry Kaiser
You only live once -
but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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
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
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
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
The common denominator for success is work.
- John D. Rockefeller
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer
is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt
A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists.
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
his troops will feel they did it themselves.
- Lao Tzu
The difference between work and play lies 100%
in the attitude of the participant.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no substitute for hard work.
- Thomas Edison
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
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
The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives
is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
- Brian Tracy
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
There is joy in work.
There is no happiness except in the realization
that we have accomplished something.
- Henry Ford
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
Three Rules of Work:
Out of clutter find simplicity;
From discord find harmony;
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein
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
Work as smart as you are able.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
- Samuel Goldwyn
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Men of lofty genius,
when they are doing the least work,
are most active.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
The sum of wisdom is that
time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
- Satchel Paige
I have not failed.
I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Edison
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work,
and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work,
so most people don't recognize them.
- Ann Landers
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
Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
Hard work pays off.
- Anonymous
Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison
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
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