Quotable Quotes (20 page)

—
B
EVERLY
S
ILLS

 

Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

—
H
ENRY
V
AN
D
YKE

 

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

—
L
OU
H
OLTZ

 

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

—
P
AUL
S
WEENEY

 

If at first you do succeed—try to hide your astonishment.

—Los Angeles Times Syndicate

 

If you're not failing now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

—
W
OODY
A
LLEN

 

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

—
L
OU
H
OLTZ WITH
J
OHN
H
EISLER

The Fighting Spirit

 

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

—
A
NNE
M
ORROW
L
INDBERGH

 

It isn't failing that spells one's downfall; it's running away, giving up.

—
M
ICHEL
G
RECO

 

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then give up. There's no use in being a damn fool about it.

—
W
.
C
.
F
IELDS

 

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

—
M
ARILYN VOS
S
AVANT

 

On this earth, in the final analysis, each of us gets exactly what he deserves. But only the successful recognize this.

—
G
EORGES
S
IMENON

 

If at first you don't succeed, you are running about average.

—
M
.
H
.
A
LDERSON

 

Success is not forever, and failure's not fatal.

—
D
ON
S
HULA WITH
K
EN
B
LANCHARD

Everyone's a Coach

 

Failure is an event, never a person.

—
W
ILLIAM
D
.
B
ROWN

Welcome Stress!

 

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

—
J
OHN
W
OODEN

They Call Me Coach

 

Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

—
E
DWIN
M
ARKHAM

 

T
HE REWARD FOR WORK WELL DONE 
. . .

 

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

—
J
ONAS
S
ALK,
MD

 

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

—
R
ALPH
W
ALDO
E
MERSON

 

Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you.

—
M
ARGARET
B
OURKE-
W
HITE

 

The biggest mistake you can make is to believe that you are working for someone else.

—
Bits & Pieces

 

The work praises the man.

—
I
RISH PROVERB

 

One of the greatest sources of energy is pride in what you are doing.

—
Spokes

 

Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.

—
S
ANDRA
D
AY
O
'
C
ONNOR

 

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for its own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.

—
M
ARY
E
LLEN
C
HASE

A Goodly Fellowship

 

There's no labor a man can do that's undignified—if he does it right.

—Bill Cosby

 

Happiness, I have discovered, is nearly always a rebound from hard work.

—
D
AVID
G
RAYSON

Adventures in Contentment

 

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.

—
W
ILLIAM
J
.
B
ENNETT

The Book of Virtues

 

Just as there are no little people or unimportant lives, there is no insignificant work.

—Elena Bonner

Alone Together

 

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

—
J
ACK
K
EMP

 

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

—
H
ENRY
F
ORD

 

Accomplishments have no color.

—
L
EONTYNE
P
RICE

 

The best preparation for work is not thinking about work, talking about work, or studying for work: it is work.

—
W
ILLIAM
W
ELD

 

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing. It's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.

—
M
ARGARET
T
HATCHER

 

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

—
R
ICHARD
B
ACH

Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

 

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

—
G
EORGE
H
ALAS

 

My father always told me, “Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.”

—
J
IM
F
OX

 

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or in the life of another.

—
H
ELEN
K
ELLER

 

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

—
M
ALCOLM
S
.
F
ORBES

 

What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.

—
J
OHANN
W
OLFGANG VON
G
OETHE

 

Not only is woman's work never done, the definition keeps changing.

—
B
ILL
C
OPELAND

in
Herald-Tribune
(Sarasota, Florida)

 

We work to become, not to acquire.

—
E
LBERT
H
UBBARD

 

Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.

—
L
EO
A
IKMAN

in
Journal-Constitution
(Atlanta, Georgia)

 

Perfection is finally attained, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.

—
A
NTOINE DE
S
AINT-
E
XUPÉRY

 

If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.

—
M
ALCOLM
S
.
F
ORBES

 

Work keeps us from three evils: boredom, vice and need.

—
V
OLTAIRE

 

It's strange how unimportant your job is when you're asking for a raise, but how important it can be when you want to take a day off.

—
E
ARL
A
.
M
ATHES

in
Tri-County Record
(Kiel, Wisconsin)

 

I don't know what liberation can do about it, but even when the man helps, woman's work is never done.

—
B
ERYL
P
FIZER

 

The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise.

—
E
ARL
W
ILSON

 

There is no such thing as a nonworking mother.

—
H
ESTER
M
UNDIS

Powermom

 

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

—
M
ARK
T
WAIN

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

 

Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich and healthy. But then, under those conditions, work is great too.

—
B
ILL
V
AUGHAN

 

Retirement should be based on the tread, not the mileage.

—
A
LLEN
L
UDDEN

 

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying.

—
W
OODY
A
LLEN

 

It proves, on close examination, that work is less boring than amusing oneself.

—
C
HARLES
B
AUDELAIRE

 

E
VERYWHERE IS WALKING DISTANCE 
. . .

 

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.

—
S
TEVEN
W
RIGHT

 

The perfect journey is circular—the joy of departure and the joy of return.

—
D
INO
B
ASILI

in
Il Tempe
(Rome, Itlay)

 

What is traveling? Changing your place? By no means! Traveling is changing your opinions and your prejudices.

—
A
NATOLE
F
RANCE

 

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.

—
S
T.
A
UGUSTINE

 

There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

—
M
ARK
T
WAIN

 

The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.

—
W
ILLIAM
H
AZLITT

 

A good traveler is one who does not know where he is going. A perfect traveler does not know where he came from.

—
L
IN
Y
UTANG

 

Be careful going in search of adventure—it's ridiculously easy to find.

—
W
ILLIAM
L
EAST
H
EAT
M
OON

Blue Highways: A Journey into America

 

Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage.

—
R
EGINA
N
ADELSON

in
European Travel & Life

 

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.

—
C
HARLES
K
URALT

On the Road With Charles Kuralt

 

The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists.

—
S
AM
E
WING

 

Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.

—
W
ILLA
C
ATHER

Death Comes for the Archbishop

 

Each year it seems to take less time to fly across the ocean and longer to drive to work.

—
The Globe and Mail
(Totonto, Ontario)

 

For travel to be delightful, one must have a good place to leave and return to.

—
F
REDERICK
B
.
W
ILCOX

 

Traveling is like falling in love; the world is made new.

—
J
AN
M
YRDAL