(564 quotes found)
“Someone receives a promotion, gets an important assignment, makes a major discovery, or moves into the president's office. ''He's lucky',' an envious person remarks. ''He gets the breaks; they're always in his favor'.' In reality, luck or the breaks of life had little or nothing to do with it. So-called ''luck'' usually is found at the exact point where preparation meets opportunity. For a time, an individual may get ahead by ''pull',' but eventually someone with push will displace him. Success is not due to a fortuitous concourse of stars at our birth, but to a steady trail of sparks from the grindstone of hard work each day.”
Kenneth Hildebrand
“Discovery - A company that will go to the ends of the earth for its people will discover it can hire them for about 10% of the cost of Americans.”
Larry Kersten
“There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy”
Joyce Grenfell
“Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a perpetual succession of miracles rising into view.”
Joseph Addison
“A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”
James Joyce
“Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.”
Alexander Smith
“The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.”
Jerry M. Wright
“Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do”
Lyn Yutang
“Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are more careful to conceal than a crime. Many a man will confess his crimes to a friend; but I never knew a man that would tell his silly weaknesses to his most intimate one.”
Lord Chesterfield
“I invent nothing, I rediscover.”
Auguste Rodin
