Browsing Quotes With Tag: work (68)
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I am wondering what would have happened to me if some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced me that it was not fair to my fellow workers to put forth my best efforts in my work… If my life had been made up of eight-hour days I do not believe I could have accomplished a great deal.
Speaker: Thomas EdisonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:34 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If the power to do hard work is not a talent, it is the best possible substitute for it.
Speaker: James A. GarfieldPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:33 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you have great talents, industriousness will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiencies.
Speaker: Samuel SmilesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and God gives abundantly to industry. So plow deep while the sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.
Speaker: Benjamin FranklinPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Work without vision is drudgery. Vision without work is a dream.
Speaker: Bruce HafenPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:33 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I know what pleasure is, for I have done good work.
Speaker: Robert Louis StevensonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:17 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Men will work hard for money. [Men] will work harder for other men. But men will work hardest of all when they are dedicated to a cause… Duty is never worthily performed until it is performed by one who would gladly do more if only he could.
Speaker: Harry Emerson FosdickPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:14 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
One breaks [his] priesthood covenant by transgressing commandments – but also by leaving undone his duties. Accordingly, to break this covenant one needs only to do nothing.
Speaker: Spencer W. KimballPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:13 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The question is not one of managing time, but one of managing ourselves with the time we have. Each minute is a little thing and yet with respect to our personal productivity, to manage the minute is the secret of success.
Speaker: Joseph B. WirthlinPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:14 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods.
Speaker: Thomas PaineSource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:51 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We are exhausted far more from the tension of internal disharmony – not doing what we know we should – than from hard, unremitting work. And, naturally, the very effort to escape such tension – pleasure-seeking, self-indulgence, escapism – produces more tension.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:47 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is the harvest and not the Master that will accuse the slothful servant.
Speaker: AnonymousSource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:38 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The adversary would love to have us engaged with him, to fight him on his own territory. He would rather have us be angry toward him than ignore him and be involved in our own work on the Lord’s territory. If he can engage us, he can win. But if we have nothing to do with him, there is no way in which he can win. He is a parasite.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:37 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
Speaker: George Bernard ShawPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:06 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A certain comfortable security, a certain profound inner peace, a kind of happy numbness, soothes the nerves of the human animal when absorbed in his allotted task.
Speaker: John Cowper PowysPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:05 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
Speaker: Alfred TennysonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:05 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the labor of thinking.
Speaker: Thomas EdisonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:02 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.
Speaker: Charles SchwabPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:35 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keeps faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he may safely leave the final result to itself. He can, with perfect certainty count on waking up some fine morning to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation, in whatever pursuit he may have singled out.
Speaker: William JamesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:23 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.
Speaker: Alan AldaPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 9:42 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!