We’ve compiled 36 quotes that are our BOS Employee Owners favorite or that they see as inspirational. We hope you find them as a source of motivation or inspiration as well!
“Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation,”
-Aristotle
“If I had nine hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six of them sharpening my axe,”
-Abraham Lincoln
“Lay hold of today’s task and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow’s,”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C. -65 A.D.)
“Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters,”
-Colossians 3:23
“Don’t let your dreams be dreams,”
-Jack Johnson
“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on,”
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people,”
-Eleanor Roosevelt
“If it’s almost right, it’s wrong,”
-McLane Company Semi (Grocery Distribution)
“I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it,”
-Thomas Jefferson
“Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ,”
-Colossians 3:23-24
“Creativity is intelligence having fun,”
-Albert Einstein
“You never lose, you either win or you learn,”
-Nelson Mandela
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing,”
-Walt Disney
“You can do anything, but not everything!”
-David Allen
“Things come to those who wait, but only those things left by those who hustle,”
-Abraham Lincoln
“Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can,”
-Arthur Ashe
“Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart as if working for the Lord and not for men,”
-Colossians 3:23
“You have to make hay while the sun shines,”
-Proverb
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door,”
-Milton Berle
“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination,”
-Jimmy Dean
“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us,”
-Winston Churchill
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up,”
-Thomas Eddison
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much,”
-Helen Keller
“Things do not happen, things are made to happen,”
-JFK
“Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars,”
-Henry Van Dyke
“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up,”
-Vince Lombardi
“Design is thinking made visual,”
-Saul Bass
“Nothing worth having comes easy,”
-Theodore Roosevelt
“Think like a designer. Design like a thinker,”
-Professor from college
“If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun,”
-Katharine Hepburn
“Be genuine,”
-George Pfeiffer
“Listen to your client, take into consideration all of their input, weigh the options, study the details, know the target audience, and then, if necessary, ignore all of it and design what you think will work best,”
-Von R. Glitschka
“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right,”
-Henry Ford
“Success is not measured by where you are, but by how far you have traveled,”
-Bill Reid
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do,”
-Steve Jobs
