Hard Work Quotes - Page 37

• I got my degree. More importantly, I got a key to American opportunity. That's who we are - a nation that rewards ambition with opportunity. Where hard work can lead to success, no matter where you start.

  Eva Longoria

  Inspirational, Success, New Year

  Speech At Democratic National Convention, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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• The value of achievement lies in the achieving.

  Albert Einstein

  Lying, Memorable, Achievement

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.413, Princeton University Press

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• The ultimate, most holy form of theory is action.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Acting, Action, Holy

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Saviors of God”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• You can never learn less; you can only learn more.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Inspirational, Learning, Spectacular

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

  George Matthew Adams

  Inspirational, Each Day, Triumph

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• It is no disgrace to start all over; it is usually an opportunity.

  George Madison Adams

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Students

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• Persistence is the great measure of individual human character.

  Brian Tracy

  Perseverance, Character, Persistence

  Brian Tracy (2009). “Flight Plan: The Real Secret of Success”, p.136, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• 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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• 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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• To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one’s scapegoats.

  Jacques Barzun

  Depth, May, Danger

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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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• 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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• You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.

  Camilla Belle

  Emotion, Hard

  FaceBook post by Camilla Belle from Nov 27, 2011

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• 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.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Today, Judgment, Headlines

  Condoleezza Rice (2011). “No Higher Honour”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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