Quotes & Sayings

• You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour. -Jim Rohn

• You can work hard, you can have excellent educational credentials, but how many points would your attitude score? -Catherine Pulsifer

• Employee of the month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same time. -Demetri Martin

• Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours. -Dale Carnegie

• When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers. -Colleen C. Barrett

• Never work just for money or for power. They won’t save your soul or help you sleep at night. -Marian Wright Edelman

• The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. -Pearl S. Buck

• I’m a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. -Thomas Jefferson

• 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

• Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. -George Patton

• Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need. -Voltaire

• It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action. -Al Batt

• People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can’t do. -Edgar Watson Howe

• Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. -Theodore Roosevelt

• I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better. -Samuel Butler

• There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it. -John W. Raper

• People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. -Jack Canfield & Mark Hansen

• It’s not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted. -Mary O’Connor

• In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do. -Dorothea Dix

• I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done. -Marie Curie