Work, Jobs, and Earning a Paycheck

Always do more than is required of you. (George S. Patton, Jr.)

If you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm (Sam Levenson)

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. (Jules Renard)

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em "Certainly I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. (Theodore Roosevelt)

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. (Helen Keller)

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching. (Satchel Paige)

I CAN gets more done than IQ.

I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. (Ettiene De Grellet)

Making an honest living should be easy since there is so little competition.

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can. (John Wesley)

Meetings:  A place where minutes are kept and hours are lost.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. (Vince Lombardi)

A good rule of thumb is if you've made it to thirty-five and your job still requires you to wear a name tag, you've made a serious vocational error. (Dennis Miller)

Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man. (Francis Cardinel Spellman)

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. (Sam Ewing)

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. (Thomas Jefferson)

No one ever drowned in sweat.

Many people miss Opportunity because it is dressed in overalls and looks suspiciously like Work. (Benjamin Franklin)

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice, and need. (Voltaire)

Everybody wants their ship to come in, but not many are willing to swim out and tow it to shore. (Priceless, Dave Ramsey)

When you do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. (George Washington Carver)

God feeds the birds, but He doesn't throw the food into their nests.

If I want my dreams to come true, I musn't oversleep.

Don't let feelings determine your destiny. Most of the work in the world is done by people who don't feel like it. (Andy Horner, founder of Premier Designs)

Work brings profit; talk brings poverty. (Prov 14:23)

Respect doesn't come from the kind of work you do; it comes from the way you do the work. (Kenneth L. Shipley)

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. (Laurence Peter)

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere. (Ronald Reagan)