“Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.”
Source: The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, Volume VII, Book One
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“I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.”
“Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.”
Source: 101 Facts of life
“Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.”
“Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.”
Source: The Eyes of the Panther (Cryptofiction Classics - Weird Tales of Strange Creatures)
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.”
“The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.”
Source: The Complete Game of Life and How to Play It: The Classic Text with Commentary, Study Questions, Action Items, and Much More
Source: Character. Repr
“The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.”
“Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.”
Source: Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona
Source: The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays
“There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.”
Source: An autobiography
“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.”
Source: Blake: The Complete Poems
“The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.”
“'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
“So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.”
“The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.”
“Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.”
Source: Mother Teresa: Essential Writings
“He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.”
“I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.”
Source: Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson
“It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.”
Source: The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings
“The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.”
“The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.”
Source: The Letters of Anthony Trollope
“Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.”
Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist
“Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.”