I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. —Thomas Jefferson More about this quote Tags: work luck Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears. —Robert W. Sarnoff More about this quote Tags: business finance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee. —Arnold H. Glasow More about this quote Tags: economics business consultants Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. —Bertrand Russell More about this quote Tags: belief Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
"There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one. —Laurence J. Peter More about this quote Tags: decisions stigma Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. —E.L. Doctorow More about this quote Tags: life driving headlights Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal in life is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he's been robbed. The fact is that most putts don't drop, most beef is tough, most children grow up to be just people, most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual toleration, and most jobs are more often dull than otherwise. Life is like an old-time rail journey — delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally with beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank God for letting you have the ride. —Jenkin Lloyd Jones More about this quote Tags: life boredom Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
No group or class should be freed from doing the toil of the culture. One of our current problems is that there are too many people who simply have no idea how much unpleasant, tedious, and repetitive work is required to support their "high-level" activities, and how ineffective they would be without the effort of those they all too often disdain. —Robert Theobold More about this quote Tags: work toil Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation. —Tennessee Williams More about this quote Tags: life struggle Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is not hard work which is dreary; it is superficial work. —Edith Hamilton More about this quote Tags: work Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One is always seeking the touchstone that will dissolve one's deficiencies as a person and as a craftsman. And one is always bumping up against the fact that there is none except hard work, concentration, and continued application. —Paul William Gallico More about this quote Tags: work concentration Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin — real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, or a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. —Alfred D. Souza More about this quote Tags: life business obstacles debt Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The only way to make a man worthy of love is by loving him. —Thomas Merton More about this quote Tags: love Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I hold myself to be incapable of hating any being on earth. By a long course of prayerful discipline, I have ceased for over forty years to hate anybody. I know this is a big claim. Nevertheless, I make it in all humility. —Mahatma Gandhi More about this quote Tags: hate Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes. —Maxine Hong Kingston More about this quote Tags: mind learning universe Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email