Hard Work Quotes:

Brains first and then Hard Work.

- A. A. Milne

topic: Work, Hard Work, Brain

The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral dominated a 13th century landscape. The work of many hands over many years, it universally inspired admiration, wonder and fear.

- A. Hunter Dupree

topic: Hard Work, Government, Hands, Many Hands

It's been a straight strip, I must tell you, I've enjoyed it all the way. If I'm saying things to make it sound like it's hard, hard work, it's not. It's beautiful work. It's fun work. It's everything you'd ever want to do.

- Aaron Spelling

topic: Beautiful, Fun, Hard Work, Fun Work

The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.

- Aaron Taylor-Johnson

source: "Toy boys r us" by Alun Palmer, www.mirror.co.uk. March 26, 2010.

topic: Hard Work, Play, Knowing

The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited. ... There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people. Because today, if you're appointed by the king, they don't feel that they're responsible for the people. If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work — because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.

- Abdallah II

topic: Kings, Responsibility, Hard Work

If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.

- Abdallah II

topic: Hard Work, Government, Needs

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

- Abdul Kalam

topic: Hard Work, People, Principles

Thinking is the capital, Enterprise is the way, Hard Work is the solution

- Abdul Kalam

topic: Hard Work, Thinking, Way

Practice is a talent. Perseverance is a talent. Hard work is a talent.

- Abhinav Bindra

topic: Perseverance, Hard Work, Practice

Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.

- Abraham Cowley

source: 'Ode upon a Copy of Verses of My Lord Broghill's' (1663)

topic: Encouragement, Hard Work, Spirit

Labor is the true standard of value.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Hard Work, Standards, Labor

Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Hard Work, Comfort, Source

Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Hard Work, Merit, Should, Be Encouraged

I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: War, Believe, Hard Work, Labor Laws

Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Hard Work, Half, Lost, Finished Work

The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous...

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Hard Work, Men, Reason, Working Man

Writing is hard work, and if anything's true about the process, it's that fact that a good story is hard to find and even trickier to get on paper. What's less romantic than staring alone at a blank screen? And edgy? I've changed the cat little because I didn't know what my characters were going to say next.

- Adam Johnson

topic: Character, Cat, Hard Work

I do love the films I've done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we're trying to make people laugh and I'm very proud of that.

- Adam Sandler

topic: Hard Work, Past, People

I don't know who I touch and who I don't. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don't have any secrets. I don't know the reasons I've been so well received.

- Adam Sandler

topic: Growing Up, Hard Work, People

The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.

- Adam Sedgwick

source: William Wordsworth, Adam Sedgwick (1842). “A complete guide to the Lakes, comprising minute directions for the tourist, with mr. Wordsworth's Description of the scenery of the country, &c. and Three letters upon the geology of the Lake district, by prof. Sedgwick”

topic: Hard Work, Stills, Power Of Nature

Then we'll work a hundred years without physics and chemistry.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: Hard Work, Years, Chemistry

I dedicate myself and work hard in the weight room and treat every practice as if it were a game.

- Adrian Peterson

topic: Hard Work, Practice, Games, Weight Room

Autism doesn't have to define a person. Artists with autism are like anyone else: They define themselves through hard work and individuality.

- Adrienne Bailon

topic: Hard Work, Artist, Autism, Autistic

Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.

- Adrienne Rich

topic: Strong Women, Hard Work, Mean, Independent Thinking, Independent Thought

Spirituality does not require that you work hard toward achieving a result in the future as much as it requires you to be fully present, sincere and committed now, with absolute honesty and willingness to uncover and let go of any illusions that come between you and the realization of Reality.

- Adyashanti

topic: Letting Go, Honesty, Hard Work

AERIN is saturated with the qualities that have surrounded me my entire life, many of which came from my grandmother, Estee: passion, style, hard work, family, and, of course, all things beautiful.

- Aerin Lauder

topic: Beautiful, Hard Work, Passion, Work Family

I'm glad that I'm being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can chill out about it.

- Akshay Kumar

topic: Hard Work, Actors, Today, Paid Off

A crook is a crook, and there's something healthy about his frankness in the matter. But any guy who pretends he is enforcing the law and steals on his authority is a swell snake. The worst type of these punks is the big politician. You can only get a little of his time because he spends so much time covering up that no one will know that he is a thief. A hard-working crook will-and can-get those birds by the dozen, but right down in his heart he won't depend on them-hates the sight of them.

- Al Capone

topic: Hate, Hard Work, Heart

Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you'll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor. Medicare was established to secure that promise.

- Al Franken

topic: Hard Work, Class, Promise

I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that.

- Alain Prost

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Hard Work, Jealous, Thinking

I do my own analysis on the teams I am refereeing. I will know some of the personalities, the players who could be difficult customers in a scrum situation, the ones I am going to have to really work hard on early in the game to get what I want.

- Alan Lewis

topic: Team, Hard Work, Player, Scrum

But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.

- Alan Paton

source: Alan Paton (2011). “Too Late The Phalarope”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

topic: Hard Work, School, Church

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

- Alan Perlis

source: "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.

topic: Hard Work, Problem, Easy, Easy Work

Hard work does not go unnoticed, and someday the rewards will follow.

- Alan Rufus

topic: Business, Hard Work, Doe

Run away from laziness; work hard. Touch intuition and listen to the heart, not marketing directors. Dream.

- Alber Elbaz

topic: Running, Dream, Hard Work

The designers, photographers and models I work with, they are really hard-working people who are devoting their lives to fashion. They're kind of like nuns of fashion.

- Alber Elbaz

topic: Fashion, Hard Work, People

My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature and by no other feeling. My love for justice and striving to contribute towards the improvement of human conditions are quite independent from my scientific interests.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Hard Work, Independent, Justice

For me, hard work represents the supreme luxury of life.

- Albert M. Greenfield

topic: Hard Work, Luxury

If Americans want to see results instead of rhetoric, if taxpayers would like solutions instead of sound bites, and hard work instead of horse trading, I suggest you take a short look, and it won't take much longer, at the accomplishments of this Congress.

- Alcee Hastings

topic: Horse, Hard Work, Accomplishment, Sound Bites

Always work hard, never give up, and fight until the end because it's never really over until the whistle blows.

- Alex Morgan

source: Alex Morgan (2015). “Breakaway: Beyond the Goal”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

topic: Giving Up, Hard Work, Athlete

Capitalists work hard to produce what consumers want. Artists who work too hard to produce what consumers want are often accused of selling out. Thus, even the languages of capitalism and art conflict: a firm that has 'sold out' has succeeded, but an artist that has 'sold out' has failed.

- Alex Tabarrok

topic: Art, Hard Work, Want, Sold Out, Selling Out

People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work.

- Alexander Hamilton

topic: Inspirational, Hard Work, People, Brighten Your Day

... My achievements in the field of chess are the result of immense hard work in studying theory ...

- Alexander Kotov

topic: Hard Work, Learning, Achievement

Dream, believe, work hard and succeed.

- Alexander Stubb

source: "Alexander Stubb: Meet Your Commencement Speaker". Interview with Vince Moore, news.furman.edu. May 4, 2017.

topic: Dream, Believe, Hard Work

I think everyone shares a fear of failure - that you're only as good as your most recent collection. That's definitely a fear, but it's a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges.

- Alexander Wang

topic: Hard Work, Thinking, Challenges

While I can't promise you that I'm going to be a perfect candidate and I can't promise you that I'm not going to make mistakes, I can unequivocally promise you that no one, no one, will work harder on your behalf, no one will fight harder with you and no one will make you more proud.

- Alexi Giannoulias

topic: Mistake, Hard Work, Fighting

I have to work hard to be punctual, to not lose my temper, take direction and be told what to do - and most of all listen rather than talk.

- Alfie Allen

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Hard Work, Temper, Punctual

The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been accomplished by then, little will ever be accomplished.

- Alfred Adler

topic: Hard Work, Age, Twenties

It's important to understand it's OK to control the subject. If most editorial stories were photographed just as they are, editors would end up throwing most in the waste basket. You have to work hard at making an editorial picture. You need to re-stage things, rearrange things so that they work for the story, with truth and without lying.

- Alfred Eisenstaedt

topic: Photography, Lying, Hard Work, Editorials

The late Alfred P. Sloan, Ir., long-time executive of General Motors Corporation, had a fivepoint "secret of success." It was: 1. Get the facts. 2. Recognize the equities of all concerned. 3. Realize the necessity of doing a better job every day. 4. Keep an open mind. 5. Work hard.

- Alfred P. Sloan

topic: Jobs, Hard Work, Long, Keep An Open Mind, General Motors

All statements about the hydrides of boron earlier than 1912, when Stock began to work upon them, are untrue.

- Alfred Stock

topic: Hard Work

If a mathematician wishes to disparage the work of one of his colleagues, say, A, the most effective method he finds for doing this is to ask where the results can be applied. The hard pressed man, with his back against the wall, finally unearths the researches of another mathematician B as the locus of the application of his own results. If next B is plagued with a similar question, he will refer to another mathematician C. After a few steps of this kind we find ourselves referred back to the researches of A, and in this way the chain closes.

- Alfred Tarski

source: "Semantics and the Philosophy of Language" edited by L. Linsky, Urbana, (p. 41), 1952.

topic: Wall, Hard Work, Men, Back Against The Wall

I enjoy myself a lot but I derive more joy in working. I believe in hard work and one of my business success secrets is hard work. It's hard to see a youth that will go to bed by 2am and wake up by 5am. I don't rest until I achieve something.

- Aliko Dangote

topic: Believe, Hard Work, Joy

There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.

- Allen Boyd

topic: Anger, Hard Work, Bitterness

Always be prepared; always work hard and take pride in your work no matter what it is. I still follow that advice and have already tried to pass it on to my children. They, of course, ignored me.

- Allen Covert

topic: Children, Hard Work, Pride

I just wanted to set a good example. I wanted to do things that I hadn't done before. My whole thing was to just try to be professional. I think when you work hard, good things happen, so obviously, because we're going to the Finals.

- Allen Iverson

topic: Hard Work, Thinking, Effort, Good Examples

When you work hard, good things happen

- Allen Iverson

topic: Hard Work, Good Things, Things Happen

If you work hard, it will pay off.

- Amandla Stenberg

topic: Hard Work, Pay

Work hard, learn all you can, and never miss the chance to connect with someone new.

- Amber Naslund

topic: Inspirational, Hard Work, Missing

I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I'm a big shoe girl.

- Amy Adams

topic: Girl, Hard Work, Shoes, Gals, Protestant Work Ethic

Westerners often laud their children as 'talented' or 'gifted', while Asian parents highlight the importance of hard work. And in fact, research performed by Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck has found that the way parents offer approval affects the way children perform, even the way they feel about themselves.

- Amy Chua

topic: Children, Hard Work, Parent, Stanford

Comedy isn't really something where you get discovered. You can't network your way to being funny or talented. It's not hard to get seen if you're funny. If you're funny, talented, and work hard, you will go somewhere.

- Amy Schumer

topic: Hard Work, Way, Comedy

I want people to say, 'She is really sweet and kind.' Anyone can work hard enough and be 'pretty.' Not many people are nice nowadays.

- Amy Weber

source: "Interview: Amy Weber interview". www.askmen.com.

topic: Sweet, Nice, Hard Work, Really Sweet

Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work

- Andre Agassi

topic: Hard Work, Tennis, Substitutes, Sweating, Training Hard

Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it.

- Andre Agassi

topic: Motivational, Sports, Hard Work

Genius consists of equal parts of natural aptitude and hard work.

- Andre Maurois

topic: Hard Work, Aptitude, Genius

Those who dismiss rappers as vulgar outsiders miss the way that Jay-Z and Kanye embody the American dream: starting from humble beginnings, both rose by dint of hard work and talent to wealth and success. Jay embraces this role, styling himself as much a CEO as an artist, and he and Beyoncé have become, in a significant way, more fully America's first couple than their friends the Obamas.

- Andrew Hoberek

topic: Dream, Couple, Hard Work, Wealth And Success, Humble Beginnings

How long before we white people get over our bitter resentments about being demoted to the status of equality with non-whites? . . . How long until we white people will stop insisting that blacks exercise personal responsibility, build strong families, educate themselves enough to edit the Harvard Law Review, and work hard enough to become President of the United States, only to threaten to assassinate them when they do?

- Andrew Manis

topic: Strong, Responsibility, Hard Work, Insisting, Strong Family

Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate farmers, liquidate real estate. It will purge the rottenness out of the system. High costs of living and high living will come down. People will work harder, live a more moral life. Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up from less competent people.

- Andrew Mellon

source: "The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover - The Great Depression, 1929-1941". Book by Herbert Hoover, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1951.

topic: Real, Hard Work, People, Adjustment, Systemic Change

Bush has legitimized a huge expansion of the welfare state, liberalizing immigration, and using force for democratization abroad. All the next Democratic president has to do to finish Bush's hard work is to raise taxes to pay for it all.

- Andrew Sullivan

topic: Hard Work, President, Expansion

For me the most important thing has always been tennis, and that's what I want to get across the image I want to portray is a hard-working tennis player.

- Andy Murray

topic: Hard Work, Player, Tennis, Tennis Player

Great readers, great listeners, and all have great work ethics. ... They work hard at what they do and they're devout to their reading and listening.

- Andy Wilkinson

topic: Reading, Writing, Hard Work, Great Work Ethic

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

- Anita Roddick

topic: Meaningful, Kids, Hard Work

I believe modeling is a combination of natural talent, the ability to adapt to different situations, hard work, and, most importantly, luck.

- Anja Rubik

topic: Believe, Hard Work, Luck, Ability To Adapt

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead; that is where your future lies. Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. There are really only three types of people: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who say, What happened?

- Ann Landers

topic: Lying, Live Life, Hard Work

I made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. Believe me, it was hard work.

- Ann Romney

source: Twitter post from Apr 12, 2012

topic: Believe, Hard Work, Home

Listening is not just hearing what someone tells you word for word. You have to listen with a heart. I don't want that to sound touchy-feely; it is not. It is very hard work.

- Anna Deavere Smith

topic: Hard Work, Heart, Listening, Touchy

I have a lot of optimism about new doctors because I think it's really clear that it's a lot of hard work and no guarantee of a lot of money.

- Anna Deavere Smith

topic: Hard Work, Thinking, Doctors

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

- Anna Pavlova

topic: Success, Hard Work, Initiative, Exertion

My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the time. Sometimes comedy is not a bundle of laughs to actually do.

- Anne Dudley

topic: Hard Work, Laughing, Oscars, Bundles, Monty

I'd love to be an artist that's multifaceted. At the moment, I am not. But wouldn't that be cool if I was like, 'Yeah, let me pull out my guitar and play you a song.' I would adore that. I am so far not gifted in that way. But I am a very hard worker and a very determined person, so who knows?

- Anne Hathaway

topic: Song, Hard Work, Artist, Hard Worker

Age has given me the gift of me; it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get to be the woman I've already dreamt of being. Which is somebody who can do rest and do hard work and be a really constant companion, a constant, tender-hearted wife to myself.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Hard Work, Wife, Age

You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or imagined events come alive. But you cannot will this to happen. It is a matter of persistence and faith and hard work. So you might as well just go ahead and get started.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Real, Hard Work, Persistence

Of course, an exhausting day at sail lines and nets left little energy to expend on running or laughing. Perhaps that was why her parents couldn't appreciate her music-it wouldn't appear to be hard work to them. Menolly shook her hands, letting them flap from her wrists. They ached and trembled from the constricted movements and tension of an hour of intensive playing. No, her parents would never understand that playing musical instruments could be as hard work as sailing or fishing.

- Anne McCaffrey

topic: Music, Running, Hard Work, Why Her, Exhausting

I work hard, and managing an inventory-based business can be extremely stressful. The upside is that, as long as I get my job done, I can take time off pretty much any time I want.

- Anne Taintor

topic: Jobs, Hard Work, Long

No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.

- Anthony Bourdain

topic: Dream, Hard Work, Appreciate, Kitchen Confidential

You can't really discover the most interesting conflicts and problems in a subject until you've tried to write about them. At that point, one discovers discontinuities in the data, perhaps, or in one's own thinking; then the act of writing forces you to work harder to resolve these contradictions.

- Anthony F. C. Wallace

topic: Hard Work, Writing, Thinking, Discontinuity

I went to school and made good grades and went to college. So I was afforded an opportunity through my parents' hard work that most people don't have.

- Anthony Mackie

topic: Hard Work, School, Opportunity, Good Grades

Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.

- Anthony Powell

topic: Hard Work, Writing, Creative

[M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but chiefly from a craving after knowledge, which I notice resides in me more than in most other men. And therewithal, whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.

- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

topic: Hard Work, Men, Discovery

I believe scientists have a duty to share the excitement and pleasure of their work with the general public, and I enjoy the challenge of presenting difficult ideas in an understandable way.

- Antony Hewish

topic: Believe, Hard Work, Ideas

Broadcasting is definitely in my cards for the future, and I'm determined to work hard at it - to perfect it and create my style and niche.

- Apolo Ohno

topic: Hard Work, Perfect, Style

We all naturally want to become successful... we also want to take shortcuts. And it's easy to do so, but you can never take away the effort of hard work and discipline and sacrifice.

- Apolo Ohno

topic: Hard Work, Successful, Sacrifice, Short Cuts, Becoming Successful

School choice is one of the strongest ways we have to educate our children, .. believes in school choice and he is going to work hard to enact school choice.

- Ari Fleischer

topic: Children, Believe, Hard Work, School Choice

People will always work harder if they're getting well paid and if they're afraid of losing a job which they know will be hard to equal. As is well known, if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

- Armand Hammer

topic: Jobs, Get Well, Hard Work

You see, for me [art]'s not one of life's ornaments, rococo relaxation to be greeted affably after a day of hard work; I'm inverted on this : for me it's my very breath, the one thing necessary, and all else is excretion and a latrine.

- Arno Hintjens

topic: Art, Hard Work, Relaxation, Rococo

Anxiety and conscience are a powerful pair of dynamos. Between them, they have ensured that I shall work hard, but they cannot ensure that one shall work at anything worthwhile.

- Arnold J. Toynbee

topic: Powerful, Hard Work, Anxiety

The key to success? Work hard, stay focused and marry a Kennedy.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Inspirational, Hard Work, Keys

The secret is contained in a three-part formula I learned in the gym: self confidence, a positive mental attitude, and honest hard work.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

source: Arnold Schwarzenegger (2012). “Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

topic: Attitude, Hard Work, Self Confidence, Hate Myself, Positive Mental Attitude

It is going to be tough if you look for the easy way out because very rarely is there an easy way out. There is nothing that replaces hard work.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Motivational, Hard Work, Looks

Almost anything difficult, any challenge takes time, patience, and hard work.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Inspiring, Hard Work, Achievement, Time Patience

You never want to fail because you didn't work hard enough.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Hard Work, Want, Failing

It's silly to work hard the whole week and then spoil it by not preparing properly before the game.

- Arsene Wenger

topic: Stupid, Silly, Hard Work

The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man to seize, is hard work.

- Arthur Brisbane

topic: Hard Work, Opportunity, Men

Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large, quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.

- Arthur Frederick Saunders

topic: Encouragement, Hard Work, Pride, Poisonous

You know, it sounds corny, but I believe in myself. And I work hard.

- Arthur Godfrey

topic: Believe, Hard Work, Sound, I Believe In Myself

I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear - the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about.

- Arthur L. Williams, Jr.

source: "The Gere hunter". Interview with Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. December 14, 2002.

topic: Stress, Believe, Hard Work, Society Today, Stress And Worry

It is so much hard work writing your first novel. You're not even sure that it is possible to do.

- Asa Larsson

topic: Hard Work, Writing, Firsts

I have always considered myself a fast learner. I try to retain and absorb as much information and knowledge about the [music] business as I can. I don't want to just sit back and have other people do the hard work for me. I try to be involved in every process of my career as possible. I run my own social media, record, and try to vocal produce myself as much as possible, write my own songs, style myself, and learn the business side. If I didn't do acting or music, I was going to school for business. God has put me on this path and I can honestly say I wake up every day doing what I love.

- Asher Monroe

topic: Running, Song, Hard Work

Good ideas are common - what's uncommon are people who will work hard enough to bring them about.

- Ashleigh Brilliant

topic: Hard Work, Ideas, People, Brilliant Ideas, Sales Team Motivational

I believe that opportunity looks a lot like hard work.

- Ashton Kutcher

source: "Conservatives embrace Ashton Kutcher's straight talk" by Bryan Koenig, politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com. August 22, 2013.

topic: Believe, Hard Work, Opportunity

Your brain gets too comfortable in your everyday surroundings. You need to make it uncomfortable. You need to spend some time in another land, among people that do things differently than you. Travel makes the world look new, and when the world looks new, our brains work harder.

- Austin Kleon

topic: Hard Work, Land, People

Travel makes the world look new, and when the world looks new, our brains work harder.

- Austin Kleon

topic: Hard Work, Brain, Looks

If the double helix was so important, how come you didn't work on It? Ther husband, Linus Pauling, when the Nobel Prize was awarded to Crick, Watson and Wilkins.

- Ava Helen Pauling

topic: Husband, Hard Work, Important

It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales. I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton ... oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.

- B. B. King

topic: Hard Work, Night, Play

Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.

- B. C. Forbes

topic: Hard Work, Thinking, Careers, Inspirational Hard Work, Career Motivation

One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.

- B. Carroll Reece

topic: Hard Work, Use, Profit

We've got some fundamental choices to make about the kind of country we want to be. Will we accept an economy where only a few of us do spectacularly well, or are we going to build an economy where everyone who works hard has a chance to get ahead?

- Barack Obama

topic: Country, Hard Work, Choices

Mothers are the rocks of our families and a foundation in our communities. In gratitude for their generous love, patient counsel, and lifelong support, let us pay respect to the women who carry out the hard work of motherhood with skill and grace, and let us remember those mothers who, though no longer with us, inspire us still.

- Barack Obama

topic: Mother, Gratitude, Hard Work, Generous Love, Be Respectful

The things that led me to run for office - trying to figure out how we create an economy where everybody's got a fair shot and if you work hard, you can achieve your dreams.

- Barack Obama

topic: Running, Dream, Hard Work

We are going through historic times, and my vision is a world, first of all, in which America continues to be that one indispensable nation. Because we're taking care of our own people, because our economy is strong and our middle class is growing, and people feel like hard work is rewarded, and we are continuing to expand opportunity and diversity and tolerance and respect.

- Barack Obama

topic: Strong, Hard Work, Opportunity, Tolerance And Respect

If you work hard. And are responsible. You should be rewarded.

- Barack Obama

topic: Hard Work, Responsible, Should

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

- Barack Obama

topic: Believe, Hard Work, America, John Kerry

I believe we can keep the promise of our founders, the idea that if you're willing to work hard, it doesn't matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or who you love. It doesn't matter whether you're black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or young or old or rich or poor, able, disabled, gay or straight, you can make it here in America if you're willing to try.

- Barack Obama

topic: Believe, Hard Work, Native American, Willing To Try, Black Or White

It is that promise that has always set this country apart-that through hard work and sacrifice, each of us can pursue our individual dreams but still come together as one American family, to ensure that the next generation can pursue their dreams as well.

- Barack Obama

topic: Dream, Country, Hard Work, Next Generation, Together As One

The true test of the American ideal is whether we're able to recognize our failings and then rise together to meet the challenges of our time. Whether we allow ourselves to be shaped by events and history, or whether we act to shape them. Whether chance of birth or circumstance decides life's big winners and losers, or whether we build a community where, at the very least, everyone has a chance to work hard, get ahead, and reach their dreams.

- Barack Obama

topic: Dream, Humility, Hard Work

There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.

- Barbara Jordan

topic: Hard Work, Adversity, People, Minority Groups

It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

- Barbara Kruger

topic: Hard Work, Practice, Mind, Social Relations, Prominence

If Earth is considered a closed system, there will be less for all forever. The frontier is closed, the wilderness is gone, nature is being destroyed by human consumers, while billions are starving. The future indeed looks grim, and there are, ultimately, no really long-range, positive solutions, nor motivation for making the sacrifices and doing the hard work needed now, unless we understand that we are evolving from an Earth-only toward an Earth-space or universal species.

- Barbara Marx Hubbard

topic: Motivation, Hard Work, Sacrifice, Really Long

We, the women of the Senate, with President Obama by our side, will keep fighting - our shoulders square, our lipstick on - because you deserve equal pay for your hard work.

- Barbara Mikulski

source: "Mikulski: We’ll fight with ‘shoulders square, lipstick on’" by Mary C. Curtis, www.washingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

topic: Hard Work, Fighting, Squares

Love is a handful of seeds, marriage the garden, and like your gardens, Paula, marriage requires total commitment, hard work, and a great deal of love and care. Be ruthless with the weeds. Pull them out before they take hold. Bring the same dedication to your marriage that you do to your gardens and everything will be all right. Remember that a marriage has to be constantly replenished too, if you want it to flourish...

- Barbara Taylor Bradford

topic: Love, Weed, Hard Work, Love And Care

Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. It is no fun to write lumpishly, dully, in prose the reader must plod through like wet sand. But it is a pleasure to achieve, if one can, a clear running prose that is simple yet full of surprises. This does not just happen. It requires skill, hard work, a good ear, and continued practice.

- Barbara Tuchman

topic: Running, Fun, Hard Work

Work harder than everybody. You're not going to get it by whining, and you're not going to get it by shouting, and you're not going to get it by quitting. You're going to get it by being there.

- Barbara Walters

topic: Hard Work, Quitting, Being There

Everybody has a role on the team, and some have a role as a scout team player. They have to emulate the offenses that we are going to face. Those players still have to go through the out-of-season work and they work hard.

- Barry Alvarez

topic: Team, Hard Work, Player, Team Player

Work hard, think fast and you'll last.

- Barry McGuigan

topic: Hard Work, Thinking, Lasts

When you are rowing well and hard, the rhythm of the stroke takes over. It drives your days and restores your nights. It imparts cadence and direction. You feel like you and the boats are one, you feel that no obstacle will put up any more resistance than the water does to your oars, you feel that hard work and grit and mental toughness will always win it for you in the end.

- Barry S. Strauss

topic: Hard Work, Winning, Night, Oar

Eakins rejected gentlemen athletics as his theme. Instead, he took a subject that had been the stuff of illustrated weeklies and the penny press and turned it into fine art. Eakins celebrates not fire from heaven but honest sweat, not genius but hard work.

- Barry S. Strauss

topic: Art, Hard Work, Fire

If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.

- Bart Starr

topic: Football, Hard Work, Chance

Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.

- Bayard Taylor

topic: Perseverance, Hard Work, Excellence, Pursuit Of Excellence

I'm no miracle man. I guarantee nothing but hard work.

- Bear Bryant

topic: Believe, Hard Work, Men

It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.

- Bela Lugosi

topic: Hard Work, Years, Roles, Small Roles

If America is the land of opportunity, a country where perseverance and hard work is rewarded by recognition, then an illegal harbors the opposite ambitions. His greatest reward us anonymity, invisibility. Aided and abetted by market forces and the laws of supply and demand, he hones his skill to stand up but make sure he's never counted.

- Bella Pollen

source: Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

topic: Country, Perseverance, Hard Work, Supply And Demand, Land Of Opportunity

But when I felt like I had something to prove? Then I got up early every morning and worked all day long. I didn't know if I had any more talent than anyone else directing, but I knew I could work hard at it, and so I did.

- Ben Affleck

topic: Morning, Hard Work, Long

You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.

- Ben Affleck

topic: Hard Work, Library, Fifty

There are two things for a marriage to be good. One is to work hard on it. The other one is to marry above you. And I succeeded at both of those.

- Ben Affleck

topic: Marriage, Hard Work, Two, Marriage Is Hard

Work hard. Think big. Listen well.

- Ben Feldman

topic: Hard Work, Thinking, Think Big

The theater was my first training ground. It taught me discipline, dedication and appreciation of hard work.

- Ben Vereen

source: Ben Vereen: Biography, www.imdb.com.

topic: Appreciation, Hard Work, Dedication, Work Dedication

I try to work hard. I'm really proud of what I get to do as a living. I still pinch myself. But I also know it's a craft, and I can get better at it and learn every time I do it. So I try to work hard no matter what the task is.

- Benedict Cumberbatch

topic: Hard Work, Get Better, Trying

Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.

- Benjamin Carson

topic: Dream, Perseverance, Hard Work, Dedication And Perseverance, Perseverance And Hard Work

Being a doctor at Johns Hopkins does not make me any better in God's sight than the individual who has not had the opportunity to gain such an education but who still works hard.

- Benjamin Carson

topic: Hard Work, Opportunity, Doctors

Doing your best means never stop trying.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Hard Work, Mean, Trying, Trying Hard, Try Your Best

Hard work is often the easy work you did not do at the proper time.

- Bernard Meltzer

topic: Hard Work, Easy, Easy Work, Proper Time

Competition is healthy. It makes you work harder and strive for more and try to find that extra one or two percent in your game that you could possibly improve.

- Bernhard Langer

topic: Hard Work, Games, Two

It was rough being dark. I got heat from my own people more than anyone else. I remember going to my mom and saying, 'Why am I so black?' And she said, 'Because I'm black. You just gotta always work harder than the average bear.'

- Bernie Mac

topic: Mom, Hard Work, Dark

Mind your own business and don't eat junk food. Treat everyone the way you want to be treated, work hard and love what you do.

- Besse Cooper

topic: Hard Work, Mind Your Own Business, And Love, Mind Your Own

There is something to be said for people who have to work hard, be creative, produce what they have with little - or no - means. Those of us from poor homes have the advantage of thinking for ourselves and of knowing that when times get hard, things could always be worse.

- Beth Ditto

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Mean, Hard Work, Home

My favorite thing [about surfing] is being creative on waves; it's like an art form. You can do whatever you want on that wave if you work hard at it and just have fun out there.

- Bethany Hamilton

topic: Art, Fun, Hard Work, Just Have Fun, Do Whatever You Want

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

- Bette Davis

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Hard Work, Wise Women, Possible And Impossible

People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.

- Bette Midler

topic: Hard Work, People

Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.

- Bette Midler

topic: Self Esteem, Hard Work, People

But the penciled sheets did not seem like nor smell like the library book so she had given it up, consoling herself with the vow that when she grew up, she would work hard, save money and buy every single book that she liked.

- Betty Smith

topic: Book, Hard Work, Smell

We have to create a world in which there are no unknown, hostile aliens at the other end of any missiles, and that is going to take a tremendous amount of sheer hard work. The only force which can break down those barriers is the force of love, the force of truth, soul-force...

- Betty Williams

source: Betty Williams' Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1977.

topic: Hard Work, Soul, World, Soul Force, Missiles

I think it's healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care - that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

- Beyonce Knowles

topic: Mean, Hard Work, Thinking

Regardless of your age or current physical condition you'll laugh, cry, moan, groan, sweat and experience the most exciting, hard working and effective therapeutic yoga routine in the world.

- Bikram Choudhury

topic: Yoga, Hard Work, Sweat

Many men beg for a job but have no clue what hard work really means.

- Bill Courtney

topic: Jobs, Hard Work, Mean

What builds character? It's a commitment to integrity, hard work, honor and keeping your word. All of that comes straight out of the Sigma Nu Creed. The guy who wrote that meant it. The whole idea is to think about those words and make them a part of who you are.

- Bill Courtney

topic: Integrity, Hard Work, Character, Keeping Your Word

I didn't get out of coaching to get back into it. This is my next challenge and I'm planning to work hard at it.

- Bill Cowher

topic: Hard Work, Challenges, Coaching

Let's try to find ten good things to say about Albert Belle: 10. So far as we know, he's never killed anyone. 9. He is handsome, and built like a God. 8. He played every game. 7. He has never appeared on the Jerry Springer Show. 6. He was an underrated base runner who was rarely caught stealing. 5. He hasn't been arrested in several years. 4. He is very bright. 3. He works hard. 2. He has never spoken favorably about Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein, or any other foreign madman. 1. The man could hit.

- Bill James

source: Bill James (2001). “The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract”

topic: Hard Work, Men, Years, Jerry Springer Show, Belle

The paradox of simplicity is that making things simpler is hard work.

- Bill Jensen

topic: Hard Work, Simplicity, Paradox

Despite the array of groups and organizations working on global warming, we are still missing a key element: the movement. Along with the hard work of not-for-profit lobbyists, environmental lawyers, green economists, sustainability-minded engineers, and forward-thinking entrepreneurs, it's going to take the inspired political involvement of millions of Americans to get our country on track to solving this problem.

- Bill McKibben

topic: Country, Hard Work, Thinking, Political Involvement, Forward Thinking

The American Dream is still alive out there, and hard work will get you there. You don't necessarily need to have an Ivy League education or to have millions of dollars startup money. It can be done with an idea, hard work and determination.

- Bill Rancic

topic: Dream, Determination, Hard Work, Ivy League, Hard Work And Determination

To the new 'Apprentice' candidates I would say to follow your gut instincts, be yourself and get ready to work hard for the next few months. Oh, and try to have some fun!

- Bill Rancic

topic: Being Yourself, Fun, Hard Work, Gut Instinct

The smart guy will outsmart himself. The lucky guy will run out of luck. The money guy will never have the desire. But hard work will take you anywhere you want to go.

- Bill Smith

topic: Running, Smart, Hard Work, Lucky Guy, Smart Guy

Every time I see a bluebird, I say, well, hey, all this hard work is all worth while.

- Bill Vaughan

topic: Hard Work, Hey, Wells, Bluebird

Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea - the profound solitude - that does it for me.

- Billy Campbell

topic: Hard Work, Sea, Profound, Indescribable, Expanse

Change is such hard work.

- Billy Crystal

topic: Change, Hard Work, Change Is Good

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain.

- Billy Graham

topic: Hard Work, Complaining, Honest

Im a hard worker, and everything with me is, if I work hard, I should get paid for it. Everything with me, I try to symbolize something flashy like jewelry or a car. The rubbing hands is a symbol of hustling, so it goes back to the money.

- Birdman

topic: Hard Work, Hands, Car, Hard Worker

Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes.

- Bjorn Ulvaeus

source: "Bjorn Ulvaeus: ABBA star behind Mamma Mia". Interview with Gisella Deputato, www.cnn.com. September 3, 2009.

topic: Song, Inspiration, Hard Work

Whether you're on TV or on the stage, you have to work hard to stay fresh, real, and full of energy. You can't settle back. You always have to stay on your toes.

- Blythe Danner

topic: Real, Hard Work, Energy

I've always just adored music. It's my first love, really. I admire and respect people in the music business. You really have to work hard and diligently. Sometimes actors can be lazy and get away with it, but you can't do that if you're a musician.

- Blythe Danner

topic: Hard Work, First Love, People, Respect People

Just practice hard and stay grounded. Treat people like you want to be treated and work hard.

- Bo Bice

topic: Hard Work, Practice, People

You can't make a racehorse out of a pig. But if you work hard enough at it you can make a mighty fast pig.

- Bob Akin

topic: Hard Work, Pigs, Racing, Racehorses

Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful at anything you put your mind to

- Bob Cousy

topic: Hard Work, Successful, Mind

The difference between possible and impossible is hard work and commitment.

- Bob Dole

topic: Hard Work, Commitment, Differences

We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life.

- Bob Ehrlich

topic: Life Lesson, Hard Work, Mean, Keeping Your Word

As Congress continues to debate ways to address illegal immigration, we must remember the many hard-working legal immigrants that contribute so much to our nation's economy and culture.

- Bob Filner

topic: Hard Work, Immigration, Culture, Illegal Immigration, Undocumented Immigrants

If you know you're supported, you're going to work harder, you're going to be more focused on your mission.

- Bob McDonnell

topic: Hard Work, Missions, Work Harder

After two years of hard work and debate, Congress has passed a highway bill that will help fuel our economy by creating roughly 500,000 new jobs, as well as address many critical transportation needs in Ohio and the 18th Congressional District.

- Bob Ney

topic: Jobs, Hard Work, Creating

I think that acting is no fun unless it's hard. I'm not titillated by acting or being an actor unless I have to work hard.

- Bob Odenkirk

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Fun, Hard Work, Thinking

Go Daddy is not just a job; it's a way of life. Our employees work hard, and offering great incentives is fun and productive for the company.

- Bob Parsons

topic: Jobs, Fun, Hard Work

Never reject an idea, dream or goal because it will be hard work. Success rarely comes without it.

- Bob Proctor

topic: Dream, Hard Work, Ideas

If you want to be the best, Work hardier than the rest. If you don't want to be the best, Just work like the rest.

- Bob Stinson

topic: Motivational, Hard Work, Want

We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.

- Bobby Knight

topic: Hard Work, Hockey, Player

I need work. I still audition for work. I dont get offered things out of nowhere. I have to work hard, still, and I get a lot of rejections. It just goes on and on.

- Bojana Novakovic

topic: Hard Work, Rejection, Needs

Writing teaches writing. Your writing will teach you how to write if you work hard enough and have enough faith.

- Bonnie Friedman

topic: Hard Work, Writing, Enough

Fabulous place, Dublin is. The trouble is, you work hard and in Dublin you play hard as well.

- Bonnie Tyler

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Hard Work, Play, Dublin

It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them.

- Boris Johnson

source: "Boris Johnson admits he has fallen short on election promises" by Hélène Mulholland, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2012.

topic: Hard Work, Promise, Easy

But I don't just see the movie when I see the movie, I see all the great people who worked on it and all their hard work, because they could not have worked any harder.

- Brad Bird

source: Interview with Andy Patrizio, www.ign.com. March 9, 2005.

topic: Hard Work, People, Great People

There are many diamonds in the world and if you lose your favorite, you can work hard, earn a lot of money and get another one to replace it. But the moments of your life aren't like that. Once they're gone, they'll never return. Each and every one is the most precious thing in existence. You can never meaningfully compare one moment with any other. You can never meaningfully compare your life with anyone else's. No matter how rich someone else may be, no matter how happy they look, no matter how enlightened they seem, they can never be you. Never, ever, ever. Only you can live your life.

- Brad Warner

source: Brad Warner (2005). “Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

topic: Hard Work, Live Your Life, Looks