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Work Quotes by B. C. Forbes
- I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for…
- A willing, cheerful worker, with his heart in his job, will turn out more work and more satisfactory work in 44 hours than an unwilling…
- Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.
- Genius is often a short way of spelling hard work. Poverty, obscurity, struggle and ambition formed the foundation for many careers of transcendent achievement. Few…
- The fittest, not the richest, make the most enviable mark. Pampered sons of plutocrats may shine for a time in society, but not in the…
- Now, ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an idea itself is worth nothing.…
- The fellow who isn't fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
- Are you doing the kind of work you were built for, so that you can expect to be able to do very large amounts of…
- Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
- Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and…
- Accuse American businessmen of being responsible for radicalism and they would indignantly deny the accusation. Yet, in one fundamental sense, they are responsible. They are…
More Work Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle