Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Great people say and write great things ... So learn them if you can ..

SOME GREAT QUOTES BY GREAT MEN
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1. Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Henry Ford
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2.I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work.
Thomas Edison
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3. Always continue to climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.
Oprah Winfrey
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4.
Ideas must work through the brains and arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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5.
If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
Bertrand Russell
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6. No rules for success will work if you don't.
Unknown
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Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Henry Kaiser
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8. The best kind of pride is that which compels a person to do his or her best even when no one is looking.
Unknown
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9. The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Vidal Sassoon
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10. Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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11. When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
John Ruskin
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12. Warning to all Personnel: Firings will continue until morale improves.
Anonymous
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13. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Edison
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14. Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Samuel Butler
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15. One plays for the sake of work and works for the sake of leisure.
Aristotle
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16. The work praises the man.
Irish proverb
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17. Work your way up or rust your way out.
H Holton
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I hope you liked this selection but always remember that though a lot of the quotes are about WORK - I never liked that silly thing Work because it is without a doubt the most boring task to do ...
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Here is one I have just thought up :-
18. "Give 'em a smile and they'll take a mile"
Deepak Menon
29 Aug 2006 on my daughters birthday!

5 comments:

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"ALL GREAT MEN SAY BIG THINGS, while we read and FOLLOW"

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Anonymous said...

Deepak,a great collection of quotes here..
For me Edison's first quote..is just great..

A very very happy birthday to your dear daughter..

with best wishes
gangadhar

aodz said...

thanx for visiting and leaving such a nice comment! hope to see you soon~

take care
GODBLESS!

Anonymous said...

*The road we travel is short indeed when we know we will be greeted with a welcomeing smile at the other end *

siddharth said...

"the rule is perfect, in all matters of opinion, our adverasries are insane"
Mark Twain