Hard Work Quotes - Page 36

• Grit is not synonymous with hard work. It involves a certain single-mindedness. An ungritty prison inmate will mount a daring new escape attempt every month, but a gritty prison inmate will tunnel his way out one spoonful of concrete at a time. Grit

  Chip Heath

  Tunnels, Months, Grit

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• People can be really smart or have skills that are directly applicable, but if they don't really believe in it, then they are not going to really work hard.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Success, Smart, Believe

  "10 Mark Zuckerberg Quotes That Show Why He's Been So Successful" by Jason Fell, www.businessinsider.com. May 14, 2014.

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• The last six years have been a lot of coding and focus and hard work. But maybe it would be fun to remember it as partying and all this crazy drama.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Fun, Crazy, Drama

  "Mark Zuckerberg Opens Up On Oprah (VIDEO): His Home, Relationship, And Major Donation" By Bianca Bosker, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 24, 2010.

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• Those in the community who defy authority and 'break the law' seem to enjoy the good life and have everything in the way of material possessions. On the other hand, people who work hard and struggle and suffer much are the victims of greed and indifference, losers. This insane reversal of values presses heavily on the Black community. The causes originate from outside and are imposed by a system that ruthlessly seeks its own rewards, no matter what the cost in wrecked human lives.

  Huey Newton

  Good Life, Struggle, Hands

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• I like having a woman. I like having someone to come home to, to make all of the hard work feel worth it. I need someone with me. And I want someone.

  Neil Diamond

  Home, Needs, Want

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• Work hard, be yourself, and have fun!

  Michelle Kwan

  Being Yourself, Fun, Having Fun

  Michelle Kwan (1998). “My book of memories: a photo diary”

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• 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

  Soul, World, Aliens

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

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• I am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence and free time.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Adversity, Poverty, Affluence

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• We must work harder to build mutual respect, an attitude of tolerance, with forbearance one for another.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Attitude, Tolerance, Forbearance

  Speech to the National Conference of Community and Justice, February 21, 1995.

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• Technology should do the hard work, so you can get on and live your life. We're only at one percent of what's possible, and we're moving slow relative to the opportunity we have.

  Larry Page

  Moving, Technology, Opportunity

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• I wish adults would spend less energy freaking out about the cutting itself and work harder to understand what drives kids to self-harm.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Self Harm, Kids, Cutting

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• If you fall down, get up and walk again.
  If you can't walk, crawl.
  If  that idea fails, have another one
  It doesn't happen by accident.
  It takes a lot of hard work.

  Dick Clark

  Fall, Ideas, Failing

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• Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time

  Remy de Gourmont

  Thinking, Ideas, Bears

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• With such a deep rooted interest you can withstand the setbacks and failures, the days of drudgery, and the hard work that are always a part of any creative action. You can ignore the doubters and critics. You will then feel personally committed to solving the problem and will not rest until you do so.

  Robert Greene

  Creative, Doubters, Action

  Robert Greene (2012). “Mastery”, p.179, Penguin

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• Ultimately, peace is just not about politics. It's about attitudes; about a sense of empathy; about breaking down the divisions that we create for ourselves in our own minds and our own hearts that don't exist in any objective reality, but that we carry with us generation after generation. And I know, because America, we, too, have had to work hard over the decades, slowly, gradually, sometimes painfully, in fits and starts, to keep perfecting our union.

  Barack Obama

  Attitude, Heart, Reality

  Remarks by President Obama and Mrs. Obama in Town Hall with Youth of Northern Ireland, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 17, 2013.

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• Listening well is an exercise of attention and by necessity hard work. It is because they do not realize this or because they are not willing to do the work that most people do not listen well.

  M. Scott Peck

  Exercise, People, Listening

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• Work mixed with management becomes not only easier but more profitable. The time is past when anyone can boast about 'hard work' without having a corresponding result to show for it.

  Henry Ford

  Past, Management, Easier

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• It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busy-ness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall. It is possible to be busy - very busy - without being very effective.

  Stephen Covey

  Wall, Climbing, Priorities

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.

  Zig Ziglar

  People, Coaching, Bent

  Zig Ziglar (1977). “See You at the Top”

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• I didn't have all the expectations and the publicity. It probably made me work harder and learn more. It was a blessing in disguise.

  Dustin Penner

  Fun, Humor, Blessing

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• The idea was I'd never amount to anything in music, The theme there was that I was talented, but I wouldn't work hard enough to do anything with it.

  Mose Allison

  Music, Ideas, Enough

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• 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

  Thinking, Challenges, Fuel

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• The only thing poverty does is grind down your nerve endings to a point that you can work harder and stoop lower than most people are willing to. It chips away a person's dreams to the point that the hopelessness shows through, and the dreamer accepts that hard work and borrowed houses are all this life will ever be.

  Rick Bragg

  Dream, People, House

  Rick Bragg (2010). “All Over but the Shoutin'”, p.25, Vintage

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• Every issue of the paper presents an opportunity and a duty to say something courageous and true; to rise above the mediocre and conventional; to say something that will command the respect of the intelligent, the educated, the independent part of the community; to rise above fear of partisanship and fear of popular prejudice. I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these ten or twenty lines might readily represent a whole day's hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words.

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Independent, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Go out into the world, find work that you love, learn from your mistakes, and work hard to make a difference.

  Maurice R. Greenberg

  Mistake, Differences, Making A Difference

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