Quotes On Work
And Achieving Success
1. There is no free lunch - Unknown
2. To become an expert in any human activity, it takes practice, practice, practice - Napoleon Hill
3. If you keep doing what you've been doing, you'll keep getting what you've been getting - Unknown
4. Facts are virtually meaningless without
the application of principles
- Unknown
5. Hide not your talents, they for use were made, what's a sundial in the shade? - Benjamin Franklin
6. The world will pay you according to the
contribution you have made
- Gordon B.
7. We first make our habits, then our habits make us - Unknown
8. Life is like art, we want the end
product to be a masterpiece
- Unknown
9. The long span of the bridge of your life is supported by countless cables called habits, attitudes, and desires. What you do in life depends upon what you are and what you want. What you get from life depends upon how much you want it, how much you are willing to work and plan and co-operate and use your resources. The long span of the bridge of your life is supported by countless cables that you are spinning now, and that is why today is such an important day. Make the cables strong! - George Elliott
10. The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step - Lao Tzu
11. All things come to him that goes after them - Unknown
12. Einstein's three rules of work:
1)
Out of clutter find simplicity
2)
From discord make harmony
3)
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity
13. A quitter never wins, and a winner never quits - Napoleon Hill
14. An acre of performance is worth a
whole world of promise
- William Dean Howell
15. Work banishes those three great evils:
boredom, vice, and poverty
- Unknown
16. The people who get on in this world
are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they
can't find them, make them
- George Bernard Shaw
17. The jack-of-all trades is seldom good at any. concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim - Unknown
18. Failure is the tuition you pay for success - Walter Brunell
19. Success is not to be measured by the
position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while
trying to succeed
- Booker T. Washington
20. Why should you be content with so little? why shouldn't you reach out for something big? - Charles L. Allen
21. Progress involves risk. you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first base - Unknown
22. When inspiration does not come to me,
I go half way to meet it
- Sigmund Freud
23. The only place where success comes
before work is the dictionary
- Vidal Sassoon
24. The faith that moves mountains always carries a pick - Unknown
25. You can't leave footprints in the sands of time if you're sitting on your butt, and who wants to leave butt prints in the sands of time? - Unknown
26. Opportunities multiply as they are seized - Sun Tzu
27. If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over? - Jeffery Mayer
28. Life is a succession of moments. to
live each one is to succeed
- Corita
29. Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back - Unknown
30. There is a time to let things happen,
and a time to make things happen
- Unknown
31. A strong man and a waterfall always
channel their own path
- Unknown
32. After all is said and done, there is
usually more said than done
- Unknown
33. If you're not sure where your going, you'll probably end up somewhere else - Unknown
34. Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first - Unknown
35. Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work - Unknown
36. The heights, by great men reached and kept, were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night - Thomas S. Monson
37. Pep without purpose is piffle - Unknown
38. Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there - Unknown
39. There are no traffic jams in the second mile - Unknown
40. Plan more than you can do, then do it
Bite off more
than you can chew, then chew it
Hitch you
wagon to a star, keep your seat, and there you are
- Unknown
41. Work will win when wishy washy wishing
won't
- Thomas S. Monson
42. Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing - Unknown
43. Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes - Unknown
44. A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner - Unknown
45. He who dares nothing, need hope for nothing - Unknown
46. Experience is a wonderful thing, it enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again - Unknown
47. To reach our port we must sail. Sometimes with the wind, sometimes against it - William Wendall Holmes
48. You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there, you'll get run over - Paul H. Dunn
49. The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom - Unknown
50. All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date - Unknown
51. It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work - Unknown
52. The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole - Unknown
53. Two thirds of promotion is motion - Unknown
54. Many people have the right aim in life, but never get around to pulling the trigger - Unknown
55. When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top - Unknown
56. We will only find what we are looking for, nothing more and nothing less - Unknown
57. The best leader brings out the best in
those he has stewardship over
- J. Richard Clarke
58. The man who rows the boat seldom has time to rock it - Unknown
59. Our best preparation for tomorrow is
the proper use of today
- Unknown
60. If not me, Who?
If not now.
When? - Unknown
61. What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half hour - Ralph Waldo Emerson
62. Nothing is less worthy of honor than an old man who has no other evidence of having lived long except his age - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
63. The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts - Unknown
64. The ruin of most men dates from idle moments - Unknown
65. Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny - David O. McKay
66. He who seeks rest finds boredom... He
who seeks work finds rest
- Unknown
67. Circumstances do not make a man, they
simply reveal him to himself
- Unknown
68. I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way - David O. McKay
69. If the going is really easy, beware, you may be heading downhill and don't know it - Unknown
70. What we do, depends upon how we feel,
about what we know
- Lloyd Davis
71. Well done is better than well said - Gwen Haymore
72. A man perfects himself by working - Thomas Carlyle
73. Do what you love, love what you do,
and deliver more than you promise
- Harvey McKay
74. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing - Ross Taflin
75. If you're not going to make it
perfect, Don't bother making it at all
- Rozan Soleimani
76. It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement - Mabel Newcomber
77. Great causes are not won in a single
generation
- Vaughn J. Featherstone
78. The flak is always the heaviest closest the target - Boyd K. Packer
79. The man who never took a chance, never had a chance - Unknown
80. You will never find time for anything, If you want time, you must take it - Charles Buxton
81. The man who never took a chance never had a chance - Unknown
82. There are two types of people who will
tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: Those who are afraid
to try and those who are afraid you will succeed - Ray Goforth
83. You must encounter many defeats, but
must never be defeated - Unknown
84. Talk does not cook rice –
Unknown
85. The impossible is often untried –
Unknown
86. The man who makes no mistakes, does
not usually make anything at all – Unknown
87. The harder the conflict, the more
glorious the triumph - Unknown