Famous Quotes

"No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself."

Alfred Lord Tennyson on Work

More quotes about Work

• "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

  Confucius on Work

• "All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Work

• "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

  Thomas A. Edison on Work

• "By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day."

  Robert Frost on Work

• "Nothing will work unless you do."

  Maya Angelou on Work

More quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson

• "Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control these three alone lead one to sovereign power."

• "Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell."

• "Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change."

• "Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?"

• "All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move."