Famous Quotations by Dave Mckay (best short books to read TXT) 📕

comes before work is in the dictionary.

Donald Kendall (1921- ), former CEO of Pepsi Cola

It is good for a man that he carry the yoke

when he is young.

The Bible, Lamentations 3:27

Change yourself,

and your work will seem different.

Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993), American minister and author

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC), Hercules and the Wagoner

The more we do,

the more we can do.

William Hazlitt (1778-1830), English essayist and literary criic

There is no such thing as a free lunch.

Milton Friedman (1912-2006), American economist and author

If you ever need a helping hand,

you’ll find one at the end of your arm.

Sam Levenson (1911-1980), American humourist, writer, and TV host

Some people work hard...

at finding ways to get others to do the work.

Anonymous

God gives every bird his worm;

but he does not throw it into the nest.

Swedish Proverb

I have nothing left to give but

blood, labour, tears and sweat.

Winston Churchill (1874-1965), former British Prime Minister

Shallow men believe in luck.

Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American writer and lecturer

I’m a great believer in luck, and I find

the harder I work the more I have of it.

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), third U.S. President

Luck sometimes visits a fool,

but it never sits down with him.

German Proverb

If I find ten thousand ways

that something won’t work,

I haven’t failed. I am not discouraged,

because everything I try that is wrong

is another step forward.

Thomas Edison (1847-1931), inventor and scientist

If people only knew how hard I have worked

to get this ability,

it would not seem so wonderful at all.

Michelangelo (1475-1564), Italian painter, engineer, poet, architect

A problem is your chance to do your best.

Duke Ellington (1899-1974), American composer and pianist

Start by doing what is needed;

then do what is possible;

and soon you will be doing the impossible.

Francis of Assisi (1181-1226), Italian Catholic preacher

The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Jesus, Matthew 26:41

The rest of a labouring man is sweet.

The Bible, Ecclesiastes 5:12

All work and no play makes Jack a boring boy

and Jill a rich widow.

Evan Esar (1899-1995), American humourist

Work liberates.

words on the gates of Dachau concentration camp, 1933,

and later on those of Auschwitz

Early to rise and early to bed

makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.

James Thurber (1894-1961), American author and cartoonist

It’s true hard work never killed anyone;

but I say why take the chance?

Ronald Reagan (1911-2004), actor and 40th U.S. President

By working faithfully eight hours a day

you may one day get to be boss

and work twelve hours a day.

Robert Frost (1874-1963), American poet

No man would choose to work on a ship if he was

smart enough to get himself put into a prison;

for being in a ship is like being in a prison

with the added chance of drowning.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), Boswell's Life of Johnson

A man is not lazy just because he is thinking.

There is work that can be seen

and there is invisible work.

Victor Hugo (1802-1885), French writer and statesman

Come to me, all you who labour and are tired;

and I will give you rest.

Jesus, Matthew 11:28

My yoke is easy

and what I ask you to carry is light.

Jesus, Matthew 11:30

I’m lazy. But it’s the lazy people who invented

the wheel and the bicycle because they didn’t

like walking or carrying things.

Lech Walesa (1943- ), Polish human rights activist

We will go early to a job that we love,

and we will go happily.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Antony and Cleopatra act 4

There’s no need to do house work at all.

After the first four years,

the dirt does not become any worse.

Quentin Crisp (1908- ), The Naked Civil Servant (1968), chapter 15

The fastest way to do many things

is to do them one at a time.

Samuel Smiles (1812-1904), Self-Help (1859), chapter 9

Easy come, easy go.

title of a 1967 musical starring Elvis Presley

18. Business

Don't open a shop unless you like to smile.

Chinese proverb

If your business keeps you so busy

that you have no time for anything else,

there must be something wrong,

either with you or with your business.

William J. H. Boetcker (1873-1962), Presbyterian minister

To really serve you must add something

which one cannot buy or measure with money,

and that is sincerity and integrity.

Donald A. Adams, 15th President of Rotary International

Whoever does not love his work

cannot hope that it will please others.

Author unknown

The first rule in business is not to get caught.

Anonymous

Eat and drink with relatives;

but only do business with strangers.

Greek proverb

If your desk isn’t messy,

you probably aren’t doing your job.

Harold Geneen (1910-1997), American businessman

The most successful businessman is the one

who holds onto the old just as long as it is good,

and takes the new just as soon as it is better.

Lee Iacocca (1924- ), American businessman

No people can become rich until they learn that

there is as much worth in ploughing a field

as in writing a rhyme.

Booker T. Washington (1856-1915), educator, author, and speaker

No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

Frederick G. Banting (1891-1941), Canadian doctor and Nobel laureate

Ideas are like rabbits.

You get a couple and learn how to handle them,

and soon you have a lot of them.

John Steinbeck (1902-1968), American author and Nobel laureate

The more you look for security,

the less of it you have.

But the more you look for a way to grow,

the more likely it is

that you will get the security that you desire.

Brian Tracy (1944- ), Canadian self-help author

Nothing is against the law

if a hundred businessmen choose to do it.

Andrew Young (1932- ), American politician, activist, and pastor

If you are in a job you hate,

face the truth squarely and get out.

Michael Korda (1933- ), author and novellist

A good newspaper

is a country talking to itself.

Arthur Miller (1915-2005), American writer, Observer, 26 Nov., 1961

Do not kill the goose that lays the gold egg.

Author unknown (reference to one of Aesop's fables)

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

H.M. Markowitz (1927- ), American economist and Nobel laureate

Price is what you pay. Worth is what you get.

Warren Buffett (1930- ), one of the wealthiest people in the world

19. Money

A rich man

is nothing but a poor man with money.

W.C. Fields (1880-1946), comedian, juggler, actor, writer

Like dogs running in a wheel, greedy men

still climb and climb, but never reach the top.

Robert Burton (1577-1640), English scholar at Oxford University

The trouble with the rat race

is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.

Lily Tomlin (1939- ), actress, comedienne, writer

Do not be fooled into believing

that because a man is rich he is smart.

There is enough proof to show the opposite.

Julius Rosenwald (1862-1932), U.S. businessman and philanthropist

The person who dies rich

dies a loser.

Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919),

North American Review June, 1889 ‘Wealth’

People who work sitting down get paid more

than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash (1902-1971), American poet

Let them eat cake.

Marie Antoinette, when she learned that the peasants had no bread

A man without money need no more fear a

crowd of lawyers than a crowd of pickpockets.

William Wycherley (c. 1640-1715), English dramatist

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American writer and lecturer

There is no real use for wealth,

but to give it to others.

Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English scientist, lawyer, and statesman,

Of Riches

A bank is a place that will lend you money

if you can prove that you don’t need it.

Bob Hope (1903-2003), American comedian and actor

There is some magic in wealth,

that a fool who is rich should be given

more honour by the world

than a good man or a wise man who is poor!

Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823), The Mysteries of Edolpho

The love of money

is the root of all evil.

The Bible, I Timothy 6:10

All animals are equal,

but some animals

are more equal than others.

George Orwell (1903-1950), Animal Farm (1945), chapter 10

No one can serve two masters at the same time.

You cannot work for God and for money.

Jesus, Matthew 6:24

God’s people work for love.

The devil’s people work for money.

Anonymous

The rich think of money.

The poor think of God.

Author unknown

Too much has made me poor.

Ovid (43 BC-17 AD), Roman poet, Metamorphoses, book 2

To be smart enough to get all that money,

one must be stupid enough to want it.

G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936), English writer and Christian apologist

It is harder for a rich man

to go into the kingdom of heaven

than it is for a camel

to go through the eye of a needle.

Jesus, Matthew 19:24

Does not God choose the poor

to be his people?

Do not the rich fight against

the teachings of Jesus?

The Bible, James 2:5-7

I sit on a man’s back, hurting him

and forcing him to carry me,

and I tell myself and others

that I feel sad for him,

and want to help him in any way that I can.

...in any way, that is, but to get off his back.

Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), What Then Must We Do? (1886),

chapter 16

He who is carried on another's back

does not think about how far off the town is.

African proverb

You can hold money,

but money should not hold you.

Author unknown

They have mouths but do not talk,

eyes but cannot see,

ears but cannot hear,

noses but cannot smell,

hands but cannot touch,

and feet but cannot walk.

The Bible, Psalm 115:5 (about idols)

Greed is the same as worshiping idols.

The Bible, Colossians 3:5

Men, to make a living, forget to live.

Margaret Fuller (1810-1850), American journalist and feminist

I will tell you about the very rich.

They are different from you and me.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), All the Sad Young Men (1926)

The rich and poor are two different countries,

with no feeling for each other,

and no words between them.

They know as little about each other

as they would know if they were

living on different planets.

Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), Sybil (1845), book 2, chapter 5

Where your wealth is,

there your heart will be too.

Jesus, Matthew 6:21

There is enough on earth for each man's need,

but not enough for each man's greed.

Frank Buchman (1878-1961), Remaking the World (1947), page 56

Time is money.

Benjamin Franklin (1705-1790), inventor, statesman, philosopher,

Advice to a Young Tradesman (1748)

Time is not money.

Time is far more important than that; time is life.

Anonymous

Where greed ends, happiness begins.

Author unknown

Learn to give quickly, lose happily,

and become rich without becoming greedy.

George Sand (1804-1876), female French novellist

To be upset over what you don’t have is to

waste what you do have.

Ken Keyes (1921-1995), American self-help author

Count what you have,

not what you do not have.

Author unknown

Something is better than nothing.

Author unknown

When we cannot get what we love,

we must learn to love what we get.

Roger de Rabutin (1618-1693), French memoirist

The earth is full of a number of things.

We all should be as happy as kings.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), Scottish novelist and writer,

A Child’s Garden of Verses (1885), ‘Happy Thoughts’

The king is no more than a man... as I am.

The flower smells to him as it does to me.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Henry V act 4, scene 1

Because we do not have money,

we have been forced to think.

Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937), British chemist and physicist.

The Bulletin of the Institute of Physics (1962), volume 13, page 102

They that die by famine die by inches.

Matthew Henry (1662-1714), English Bible commentator and minister

There is no wealth but life.

John Ruskin (1819-1900), Unto this Last (1862), essay 4, page 156

Have nothing in your house

that you do not use,

or that you do not believe

to be beautiful.

William Morris (1834-1896), English artist, writer, and socialist,

Hopes and Fears for Art (1882), ‘Making the Best of It’

If you buy what you do not need,

you will need what you cannot buy.

Author unknown

How many things I can do without!

Socrates (469-399 BC), on looking at all the things people were

selling, in Diogenes Laertius' Lives of the Philosophers book 2

Travel light, and you can sing

in the face of the robber.

Juvenal (55-127 AD),Roman poet and satirist, Satires number 10

The rich have servants, but no friends.

We have no servants, but we have friends.

Ezra Pound (1883-1972), American poet, The Garret

When you give to the poor,

your left hand should not know

what your right hand is doing.

Jesus, Matthew 6:3

Rough was their house and poor their food,

for all their wealth was doing good.

Samuel Garth (1661-1719), Claremont (1715),

It is better to give than to receive.

The Bible, Acts 20:35

The act of giving is an act of receiving too.

Author unknown

You help the poor most

when you help them quickly.

Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC), freed Syrian slave

Senteniae number 274, in J. & A. Duff, Minor Latin Poets

Do it now.

It is not safe to leave a generous feeling

for the cooling effect of the world.

Thomas Guthrie (1803-1873), Scottish preacher and philanthropist

God loves an enthusiastic giver.

The Bible, II Corinthians 9:7

The ones who are right before God

will all live by faith.

The Bible, Romans 1:17

There is no better way

that any group can use money

than to put milk into babies.

Winston Churchill (1874-1965), former British Prime Minister,

on radio, 21 March, 1943, in Complete Speeches (1974)

The rich are the scum of the earth

in every country.

G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936), English writer and Christian apologist

The Lord is my Shepherd;

I shall not go without what I need.

The Bible, Psalm 23:1

Foxes have holes

and birds of the air have nests;

but the Son of Man has nowhere

to lay his head.

Jesus, Matthew 8:20

20. Jesus Christ

Look! The Lamb of God,

who takes away the sin of the world!

Bible, John 1:29.

There is a green hill far away,

Without a city wall,

Where the good Lord was put to death,

Who died to save us all.

Cecil Frances Alexander (1818-1895), Irish poet and hymn writer

Take up your cross and follow me.

Jesus, Matthew 16:24

He who finds his life will lose it,

but he who will lose his life for me will find it.

Jesus, Matthew 10:39

Anyone who does not forsake all that he owns

cannot be my disciple.

Jesus, Luke 14:33

If you love me,

you will obey my teachings.

Jesus, John 14:15

Anyone who gathers not with me

is against me.

Jesus, Matthew 12:30

If someone asks you for your coat,

give them your shirt as well.

Jesus, Luke 6:29

The disciple is not greater than his master.

If they have called me a devil,

they will do the same to you.

Jesus, Matthew 10:24-25

Do not give your pearls to pigs.

Jesus, Matthew 7:6

Give to the king what is the king’s,

and give to God what is God’s.

Jesus, Matthew 22:21

Many that are first will be last,

and the last will be first.

Jesus, Matthew 19:30

You can’t have both:

the crown and the thirty pieces of silver.

Aneurin Bevan (1897-1960), British politician

21. Nature and God

If a person walks in the forest

and listens carefully,

he can learn more than what is in books,

for it speaks with the voice of God.

George Washington Carver (1864-1943), U.S. scientist and inventor

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice.

It is inside everyone.

Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948), pacifist & ideological leader of India

We spend most of our time in a kind of horizontal

thinking. We move along the top of things; but

there are times when we stop and lose ourselves

in a pile of leaves. We listen and voices from a

whole other world begin to whisper.

James Carroll (1943- ), American novelist, historian, and journalist

God the first garden made,

and the first city Cain.

Abraham Cowley (1618-1667), English poet

It is a good thing to be