Hard Work Quotes

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.

When I Asked God for Strength He Gave Me Difficult Situations to Face When I Asked God for Brain & Brawn He Gave Me Puzzles in Life to Solve When I Asked God for Happiness He Showed Me Some Unhappy People When I Asked God for Wealth He Showed Me How to Work Hard When I Asked God for Favors He Showed Me Opportunities to Work Hard When I Asked God for Peace He Showed Me How to Help Others God Gave Me Nothing I Wanted He Gave Me Everything I Needed.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.

...If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151)

If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.

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

Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

Milton Berle is an inspiration to every young person that wants to get into show business. Hard work, perseverance, and discipline: all the things you need...when you have no talent.

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

All good work requires self-revelation.

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

Nothing came easy. I was just born with a need to explore every part of my mind. And with long searching and hard work, I became devoted to my restlessness.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.

To be a good cook you have to have a love of the good, a love of hard work, and a love of creating.

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

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

I never thought I was the most beautiful model out there or the most sexy woman, but I was a hard worker.

Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.

The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.

Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard!

Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence, and a belief in our right and our responsiblity to be equal members of society.

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.

The difference between the girls today and models of the past is that we are not only interested in fashion: we are going in so many different directions at once. We work harder — at night and on weekends. On the modeling profession

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

I respect every soldier, from every country, who serves beside us in the hard work of history. America is grateful, and America will not forget.

If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

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...

Every good idea sooner or later degenerates into hard work.

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

It will not always be summer: build barns.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.

The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.

Hard work, sacrifice and focus will never show up in tests.

Hard work is rewarding. Taking credit for other people's hard work is rewarding and faster.

Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

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.

To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

Hard work certainly goes a long way. These days a lot of people work hard, so you have to make sure you work even harder and really dedicate yourself to what you are doing and setting out to achieve.

Hard work should be rewarded by good food.

What is learned out of hard work and trial is inevitably more powerful than what is learned easily.

It's hard to do it because you gotta look people in the eye and tell 'em they're irresponsible and lazy. And who's gonna wanna do that? Because that's what poverty is, ladies and gentlemen. In this country, you can succeed if you get educated and work hard. Period. Period.

I'm not a bad guy! I work hard, and I love my kids. So why should I spend half my Sunday hearing about how I'm going to Hell?

Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same. If you are too attentive to the former, you will most certainly not do the hard work of securing the latter.

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

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

honesty is hard work.

Nobody knows what you want except you. And nobody will be as sorry as you if you don't get it. Wanting some other way to live is proof enough of deserving it. Having it is hard work, but not having it is sheer hell.

I pray hard, work hard, and leave the rest to God.

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

Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.

The task of the leaders must be to provide or create for them a strong framework within which they can learn, work hard, be productive and be rewarded accordingly. And this is not easy to achieve.

While I am proud of a number of accomplishments, there are real costs to being unreasonable. Long hours. Too little time with family. A near incapacity for, as they say, stopping and smelling the roses.

Men will work hard for money. They will work harder for other men. But men will work hardest of all when they are dedicated to a cause. Until willingness overflows obligation, men fight as conscripts rather than following the flag as patriots. Duty is never worthily performed until it is performed by one who would gladly do more if only he could.

Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.

There is a lot of hard work that needs to be done

Each day can be one of triumph if you keep up your interests.

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

Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done.

The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.

I never stay away from workouts. I work hard. I've tried to take care of my body. I'll never look back and say that I could have done more. I've paid the price in practice, but I know I get the most out of my ability.

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

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

Riches should come as the reward for hard work, preferably by one's forebears

If they took the idea that they could escape poverty through education, I think it would make a more basic and long-lasting change in the way things happen. What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals.

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.

Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and with them everything.

I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.

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

In Nashville, as in every other city, there's no substitute for hard work.

There are so many things about playing football that seem to me uniquely American. Anybody can succeed, anybody can play, but youve got to work hard to do it.

The way out is the way through

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy, he has only to spray and his presence is there for years on rainy days.

For them it's out-of-date and outmoded to perform miracles; teaching the people is too like hard work, interpreting the holy scriptures is for schoolmen and praying is a waste of time; to shed tears is weak and womanish, to be needy is degrading; to suffer defeat is a disgrace and hardly fitting for one who scarcely permits the greatest of kings to kiss the toes of his sacred feet; and finally, death is an unattractive prospect, and dying on a cross would be an ignominious end.

If a job's worth doing, it's too hard.

Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin to thrive; creditors will not insult, nor want oppress, nor hungerness bite, nor nakedness freeze thee

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.

Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.