If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. -Latin proverb
Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry. -Oliver Goldsmith
Westheimer's Discovery: A couple of months in the laboratory can save a
couple of hours in the library. -Frank H. Westheimer, chemistry
professor
(1912- )
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be
undertaken with painstaking excellence. -Martin Luther King, Jr.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. -Henry J. Kaiser
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the
world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. -Margaret Mead
It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he
is to do in this universe. -Thomas Carlyle
The ability to piece together work that will both satisfy and support us
is the secret to surviving, even thriving. -Wendy Reid Crisp
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success
is to labour. -Robert L. Stevenson
A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel
like it. -Alistair Cooke
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who
do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the
first group; there was much less competition. -Indira Gandhi
What's important is that one strives to achieve a goal. -Ronald Reagan
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit
there. -Will Rogers
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your
enemy. Then he becomes your partner. -Nelson Mandela
The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work,
but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure. -Henry David Thoreau
First say to yourself what you would be, then do what you have to do.
-Epictetus
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but
what they become by it. -John Ruskin
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is
because we do not dare that they are difficult. -Seneca
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young
know everything. -Oscar Wilde
This above all: to thine own self be true, \ And it must follow, as the
night the day, \ Thou canst not then be false to any man. -Shakespeare
Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be a very silent place
if no birds sang except the best. -Henry Van Dyke
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order
to enjoy ourselves. -Ludwig Wittgenstein
Everyone has the will to win. Winners have the will to prepare. -Joe Paterno
(Penn State football coach [...] when asked why his teams have the will to win)
If you judge, investigate. -Seneca
Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. -Samuel Johnson
The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women
prepared to make fools of themselves. -P.D. James
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he
is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.
-Abraham Maslow
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the
intelligent are full of doubt. -Bertrand Russell
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other
helps you make a life. -Sandra Carey
They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I now know
that they mean money. -Lord Byron
Would you live with ease, do what you ought, and not what you please.
-Benjamin Franklin
It is better to live a useful life than to die rich.
Beware of small expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship. -Benjamin Franklin
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better
than by giving them fortune. -Richard Whately
The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to
walk on the earth. -Chinese proverb
Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he's
supposed to be doing at that moment. - Robert Benchley
Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on
him, and to let him know that you trust him. - Booker T. Washington
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor
by
taking up another. - Anatole France