Richard Nelson Bolles famous quotes

03-21-2025

Always define WHAT you want to do with your life and WHAT you have to offer to the world, in terms of your favorite talents/gifts/skills-not in terms of a job-title.
-- Richard Nelson Bolles

#Jobs #Skills #World
One of the saddest lines in the world is, 'Oh come now - be realistic.' The best parts of this world were not fashioned by those who were realistic. They were fashioned by those who dared to look hard at their wishes and gave them horses to ride.
-- Richard Nelson Bolles

#Horse #Decision #Wish
Youth is like a long weekend on Friday night. Middle age is like a long weekend on Monday afternoon.
-- Richard Nelson Bolles

#Friday #Monday #Weekend
I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.
-- Richard Nelson Bolles

#Work #Life Changing #Needs
I thank the Lord for the brain He put in my head. Occasionally, I love to just stand to one side and watch how it works.
-- Richard Nelson Bolles

#Thinking #Brain #Sides
The person who gets hired is not necessarily the one who can do that job best; but, the one who knows the most about how to get hired.
-- Richard Nelson Bolles

#Jobs #Motivation #Persons
The object is to keep busy being something...as opposed to doing something. We are all sent here to bring more gratitude, more kindness, more forgiveness and more love into this world. That is too big a job to be accomplished by just a few.
-- Richard Nelson Bolles

#Gratitude #Jobs #Kindness
There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone - many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.
-- Richard Nelson Bolles

#Country #Work #Bored
Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do..
-- Richard Nelson Bolles

#Friday #Business #Weekend
Hunches are not to be sneezed at.
-- Richard Nelson Bolles

#Inspirational #Hunches

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