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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. Hinckley

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 Kent

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

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