Quotation Collection

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. Alfred Lord Tennyson

• desire
• happiness
• passion

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together. Bette Davis

• purpose
• money
• creativity

All bad qualities develop one degree after another. The slothful man becomes lazy one soft choice after another. He may lie in bed only one minute after his alarm goes off. One minute, that is almost nothing. Tomorrow it may be only one minute more. Slowly, those minutes add up. Two months from now, he may be lying in bed for an hour after his alarm rings. It is only a little sleep. It is only a little slumber. It is only a little folding of the hands to rest. One degree at a time, the once-diligent man becomes a sloth. Bob Schultz

• laziness

Regardless of what the motivational speakers tell you, attitude is not everything, attitude is only one thing; sooner or later you have to get off your butt and go to work. Larry Winget

• attitude
• work

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