Hard Work Quotes - Page 26

• The things which hurt, instruct.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Hurt, Wrestling, Self Improvement

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.120, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• You set a goal to be the best and then you work hard every hour of every day, striving to reach that goal. If you allow yourself to settle for anything less than number one, you are cheating yourself.

  Don Shula

  Cheating, Numbers, Goal

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• Getting in shape for this role, which is incredibly demanding, vocally, has been a lot of hard work, but I'm nailing it. I'm even kind of, at times, blowing my own mind, because I am even able to talk right now.

  David Hasselhoff

  Hard Times, Mind, Roles

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• Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Reality, Appreciate, Littles

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• Work hard, play hard.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Meaningful, Play, Play Hard

  FaceBook post by Wiz Khalifa from Mar 15, 2013

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• I know of no genius but the genius of hard work.

  J. M. W. Turner

  Mastery, Genius, Knows

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• I spend a lot of nights thinking
  How did I make it this far?
  I spend money every chance I get
  Cause god damn I work hard.
  
  Put here to take care of he family
  But how was I supposed to know
  If I don't take care of myself
  Then how am I supposed to grow?

  Wiz Khalifa

  Rap, Thinking, Night

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• I don't think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Thinking, Hell, Destroyed

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• I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing.

  Winifred Holtby

  Fierce

  Winifred Holtby (1937). “Letters to a friend”

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• Hard work beats all the tonics and vitamins in the world.

  Colonel Sanders

  World, Vitamins, Beats

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• She works hard for the money so you better treat her right.

  Donna Summer

  Express Yourself, Treats, Hard

  Song: She Works Hard For Her The Money

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• Scientific research was much like prospecting: you went out and you hunted, armed with your maps and instruments, but in the ened your preparations did not matter, or even your intuition. You needed your luck, and whatever benefits accrued to the diligent, through sheer, grinding hard work.

  Michael Crichton

  Science, Preparation, Luck

  Michael Crichton (2012). “The Andromeda Strain”, p.184, Vintage

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• Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Work, Bmw, Serendipity

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• Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in big cities invaluable because you increase the odds of serendipitous encounters-you gain exposure to the envelope of serendipity.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Opportunity, Odds, Cities

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.209, Random House

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• They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Cancer, Smoking, Might

  "The Second Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1966.

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• To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damned hard.

  Carl Sandburg

  Effort, Would Be, Hell

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “The People, Yes”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Suppose you were to come upon someone in the woods working feverishly to saw down a tree.
  "What are you doing?" you ask.
  "Can't you see?" comes the impatient reply. "I'm sawing down this tree."
  "You look exhausted!" you exclaim. "How long have you been at it?"
  "Over five hours," he returns, "and I'm beat! This is hard work."
  'Well, why don't you take a break for a few minutes and sharpen that saw?" you inquire. "I'm sure it would go a lot faster."
  "I don't have time to sharpen the saw," the man says emphatically. "I'm too busy sawing!"

  Stephen Covey

  Men, Long, Tree

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.363, Mango Media Inc.

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• Rich people work hard and believe it's perfectly appropriate to be well rewarded for their efforts and the value they provide for others. Poor people work hard, but due to their feelings of unworthiness, they believe that it is inappropriate for them to be well rewarded for their efforts and the value they provide.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Believe, People

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Jul 25, 2011

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• The laws of economics tell us that the expansion of the central state can't go on forever. Its limit is reached when the looted turn on the looters. And that's beginning to happen. More than six decades of hard work for American liberty beginning with the Old Right opposition to the Roosevelt Revolution and continuing with the Mises Institute, is beginning to bear fruit.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Law, Forever, Liberty

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

  Boris Johnson

  Promise, Easy, Hard

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

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• The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for himself; then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This, say its advocates, is free labor-the just and generous, and prosperous system, which opens the way for all-gives hope to all, and energy, and progress, and improvement of condition to all.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Work, Land, Giving

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.161, Fordham Univ Press

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• No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Work, Numbers

  Abraham Lincoln, Terence Ball (2013). “Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches”, p.238, Cambridge University Press

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• The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Work, World, Want

  Abraham Lincoln, Terence Ball (2013). “Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches”, p.236, Cambridge University Press

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• I am always for the man who wishes to work.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Work, Men, Wish

  Abraham Lincoln (2013). “Leadership Lessons of Abraham Lincoln: Apply the Principles of the Sixteenth President to Your Own Work and Life”, p.15, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of a single year there could scarcely be one human being left alive--all would have perished by want of subsistence.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Work, Years, People

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.157, Library of America

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