Hard Work Quotes - Page 17

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

  Alan Rufus

  Positive, Business, Rewards

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• For everyone here in Ohio and across America who's been ever been counted out but refused to be knocked out, for everyone who has stumbled but stood right back up, and for everyone who works hard and never gives up -- this one is for you.

  Hillary Clinton

  Giving Up, Ohio, America

  "Clinton wins key primaries, CNN projects; McCain clinches nod". March 5, 2008.

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• For, like almost everyone else in our country, I started out with my share of optimism. I believed in hard work and progress and action, but now, after first being 'for' society and then 'against' it, I assign myself no rank or any limit, and such an attitude is very much against the trend of the times. But my world has become one of infinite possibilities. What a phrase - still it's a good phrase and a good view of life, and a man shouldn't accept any other; that much I've learned underground. Until some gang succeeds in putting the world in a strait jacket, its definition is possibility.

  Ralph Ellison

  Country, Attitude, Men

  Ralph Ellison (1980). “Invisible man”, Vintage

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• Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.

  Sue Grafton

  Independent, Thinking, People

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• You know, you don't have to have money to be a successful businessperson. You don't need a college degree. You just need a lot of common sense backed up by a willingness to work hard.

  Farrah Gray

  Business, Successful, College

  FaceBook post by Dr. Farrah Gray from Jul 24, 2011

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• Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Wisdom, Encouragement, Lost Love

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• Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making an effort. Most people believe that they'll wake up some day and find themselves rich. Actually, they've got it half right, because eventually they do wake up.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Believe, People, Effort

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• It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work when there is no definite object of any kind. To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mind, Doing Nothing, Importance Of Being Earnest

  "The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays".

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• He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn't live as if it mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.... We have to be all those difficult things like cheerful and kind and curious and patient, and we've got to study and think and work hard, all of us, in all our different worlds, and then we'll build... The Republic of Heaven.

  Philip Pullman

  Thinking, Heaven, Important

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• It has been said that Ernest Hemingway would rewrite scenes until they pleased him, often thirty or forty times. Hemingway, critics claimed, was a genius. Was it his genius that drove him to work hard, or was it hard work that resulted in works of genius?

  James N. Frey

  Genius, Scene, Thirty

  James N. Frey (2010). “How to Write a Damn Good Novel: A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling”, p.160, Macmillan

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• 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

  Writing, Character, Cat

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• We work day after day, not to finish things; but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.

  Charles Kettering

  Future, Science, Work Day

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• Oh, but a real princess would know that hard work ennobles the soul,' Rose objected. 'That would be one of the signs.

  Regina Doman

  Real, Princess, Rose

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• Acting is glamour but writing is hard work, so I'm going to be an actress.

  Jacqueline Susann

  Motivational, Writing, Style

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• The influence (for good or ill) of Plato's work is immeasurable. Western thought, one might say, has been Platonic or anti-Platonic, but hardly ever non-Platonic.

  Karl Popper

  Plato, Science, Might

  Karl Popper (2014). “After The Open Society: Selected Social and Political Writings”, p.190, Routledge

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• Ancient astronauts didn't build the pyramids. Human beings built the pyramids, because they're clever and they work hard.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Clever, Pyramids, Ancient

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• The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work.

  Dean Koontz

  Writing, Desire, Wells

  Dean Koontz (2008). “Watchers”, p.374, Penguin

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• If you try to do your best there is no failure.

  Mike Farrell

  Fall, Kids, Learning

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• Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Thought Provoking

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• [S]omething inside us, the feeling of resentment, the feeling that wants to get one's own back, must be simply killed. I do not mean that anyone can decide this moment that he will never feel it anymore. That is not how things happen. I mean that every time it bobs its head up, day after day, year after year, all our lives long, we must hit it on the head. It is hard work, but the attempt is not impossible.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mean, Years, Long

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

  Ben Affleck

  Library, Fifty, Bucks

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• Mother, I am young. Mother, I am just eighteen. I am strong. I will work hard, Mother. But I do not want this child to grow up just to work hard. What must I do, mother, what must I do to make a different world for her? How do I start?" "The secret lies in the reading and the writing. You are able to read. Every day you must read one page from some good book to your child. Every day this must be until the child learns to read. Then she must read every day, I know this is the secret

  Betty Smith

  Mother, Strong, Children

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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• 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

  School, Church, Quiet

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

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• We're a lukewarm people for all our feast days and hard work. Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision. Our children frighten us in their intimacy, but we make sure they grow up like us. Lukewarm like us. On a night like this, hands and faces hot, we can believe that tomorrow will show us angels in jars and that the well-known woods will suddenly reveal another path.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Growing Up, Children, Lying

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• I believe in me, in my view of the world. I believe in my responsibility for my own destiny, guilt for my own sins, merit for my own good deeds, determination of my own life. I don't believe in miracles, I believe in hard work.

  Philippa Gregory

  Determination, Believe, Responsibility

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