Quotes
Quotes about Rest
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. â¢Vince Lombardi or â¢Donald Kendall My grandfather once told me that there are 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 less competition there. â¢Indira Gandhi I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. â¢Douglas Adams There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. â¢William Bennett The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. â¢Robert Frost When work is a pleasure, life is a joy; when work is a duty, life is slavery. â¢Maksim Gorky One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. â¢Elbert Hubbard It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. â¢Jerome K Jerome One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. â¢Bertrand Russell Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them. â¢Lily Tomlin Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment. â¢Robert Benchley Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. â¢Thomas Edison Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. â¢Sam Ewing Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love. â¢David McCullough Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. â¢John G. Pollard Banker: A fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain. â¢Mark Twain
The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Man is born to work and prosper and not to rest and rust.
This restless world Is full of chances, which by habit's power To learn to bear is easier than to shun.
Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born With nowhere yet to rest my head, Like these, on earth I wait forlorn.
Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.
This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due.
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.
All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
Among the dwellings framed by birds In field or forest with nice care, Is none that with the little wren's In snugness may compare.
I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.
Let lessons of stern yesterdays . . . be your food, your drink, your rest.
Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep, More grateful than this marble sleep; It hears a voice within it tell: Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well. 'Tis all perhaps which man acquires, But 'tis not what our youth desires.
And on the balmy zephyrs tranquil rest The silver clouds. - John Keats,
