QUOTATIONS ABOUT WISDOM
Ancient Proverb
Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Teach a man how to fish, he'll eat for a lifetime.
Serenity Prayer
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Benjamin Franklin
God helps them that help themselves.
Dr. James Dobson
Great beginnings are not as important as the way one finishes.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Happiness is not a reward - it is consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
Lao-Tze
He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise.
Thomas Jefferson
Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Abraham Lincoln
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Thomas Jefferson
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
QUOTATIONS ABOUT WORK
Virgil: Inspirational and Motivational Joy Quotes
Persistent work triumphs.
Norman Vincent Peale: Inspirational and Motivational Joy Quotes
Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
Aristotle: Inspirational and Motivational Joy Quotes
Pleasure in the job put perfection in the work.
Aristotle: Inspirational and Motivational Joy Quotes
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Henry L. Doherty: Inspirational and Motivational Joy Quotes
Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.
Henry Ford: Inspirational and Motivational Joy Quotes
Profit is a by-product of work; happiness is its chief product.
David McCullough: Inspirational and Motivational Joy Quotes
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Unknown Author: Inspirational and Motivational Joy Quotes
Success depends on your backbone, not your wishbone.
Émile Zola: Inspirational and Motivational Joy Quotes
The artist is nothing without gift, but gift is nothing without work.
Robert Brault: Inspirational and Motivational Joy Quotes
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.
QUOTATIONS ABOUT WRITING
Elie Wiesel: Quotations about Writing
Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.
Henry David Thoreau: Quotations about Writing
Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.
Sharon O'Brien: Quotations about Writing
Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say.
Sholem Asch: Quotations about Writing
Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.
Jules Renard: Quotations about Writing
Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to those who have none.
Stephen Leacock: Quotations about Writing
Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.
Jack London: Quotations about Writing
You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Quotations about Writing
You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you've got something to say.
