Hard Work Quotes - Page 38

• I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck. A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.

  Joseph Addison

  Character, Men, Iron

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• All corporatism - even when practised in societies where hard work, enterprise and cooperation are as highly valued as in Korea - encourages inflexibility, discourages individual accountability, and risks magnifying errors by concealing them.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Errors, Korea, Accountability

  "Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World". Book by Margaret Thatcher, April 16, 2002.

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• That taught me how to work harder. I learned all about mental toughness on the practice field. If things weren't working out for me in high school, in college, early in my pro career, my solution was always to work harder and internalize. That way, whenever I got an opportunity, I was always prepared. See, there are a lot of guys who are all talk. They say they want to work harder and be the best, but they never pay the price. I love paying the price.

  Tom Brady

  School, Opportunity, College

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• The first is that good writing consists of mastering the fundamentals (vocabulary, grammar, the elements of style) and then filling the third level of your toolbox with the right instruments. The second is that while it is impossible to make a competent writer out of a bad writer, and while is equally impossible to make a great writer out of a good one, it is possible, with lots of hard work, dedication, and timely help, to make a good writer out of a merely competent one

  Stephen King

  Writing, Dedication, Vocabulary

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• Work hard to find something that fascinates you.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Hard

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.322, Princeton University Press

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• If Americans want to see results instead of rhetoric, if taxpayers would like solutions instead of sound bites, and hard work instead of horse trading, I suggest you take a short look, and it won't take much longer, at the accomplishments of this Congress.

  Alcee Hastings

  Horse, Accomplishment, Sound

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• As Mayor of San Francisco, I will work hard to ensure that, in the event of natural or man-made disasters, San Franciscans are prepared and our City is protected

  Gavin Newsom

  Men, San Francisco, Cities

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• As mayor of San Francisco, I will provide the vision and work hard to make San Francisco a beautiful, well-planned city with excellent housing and transportation options

  Gavin Newsom

  Beautiful, San Francisco, Cities

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• Anxiety and conscience are a powerful pair of dynamos. Between them, they have ensured that I shall work hard, but they cannot ensure that one shall work at anything worthwhile.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Powerful, Anxiety, Pairs

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• The ironic thing about legalism is that it not only doesn't make people work harder, it makes them give up. Moralism doesn't produce morality; rather, it produces immorality.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Giving Up, People, Ironic

  Tullian Tchividjian (2013). “One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World”, p.91, David C Cook

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• When you’re doing work you care about, you are able to work harder and better.

  Reid Hoffman

  Care, Able, Work Harder

  Ben Casnocha, Reid Hoffman (2012). “The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career”, p.34, Random House

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• A lot of guys have better genes but if you work hard and consistently, you can outperform them.

  Frank Zane

  Bodybuilding, Guy, Genes

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• If Earth is considered a closed system, there will be less for all forever. The frontier is closed, the wilderness is gone, nature is being destroyed by human consumers, while billions are starving. The future indeed looks grim, and there are, ultimately, no really long-range, positive solutions, nor motivation for making the sacrifices and doing the hard work needed now, unless we understand that we are evolving from an Earth-only toward an Earth-space or universal species.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Motivation, Sacrifice, Space

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• The future belongs to those who are passionate and work hard.

  Paul Wellstone

  Passionate, Hard

  "Al Franken's Defiant, Unapologetic Resignation Speech, Annotated" by Amber Phillips, www.washingtonpost.com. December 07, 2017.

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• As with every aspect of our sanctification, the renewal of the mind may be painful and difficult. It requires hard work and discipline, inspired by a sacrificial love for Christ and a burning desire to build up His body, the Church. Developing a Christian worldview means submitting our entire self to God, in an act of devotion and service to Him.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Christian, Mean, Self

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• Victories are easy and cheap. The only victories worth anything are those achieved through hard work and dedication.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Dedication, Victory, Easy

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• I am who I am: confident, arrogant, dominant, honest, hard-working and innovative.

  Louis van Gaal

  Who I Am, Arrogant, Honest

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• Winning is what happens when commitment, desire, talent, preparation, hard work, and leadership all come together.

  Tom Coughlin

  Commitment, Winning, Preparation

  Tom Coughlin, David Fisher (2013). “Earn the Right to Win: How Success in Any Field Starts with Superior Preparation”, p.16, Penguin

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• You have to work hardest for the things you love most.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Hardest, Things You Love

  Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.43, Random House

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• Move before you think you are ready. It is as if you are making it a little more difficult for yourself, deliberately creating obstacles in your path When you feel that you must work harder to get to your goal because you are not quite prepared, you are more alert and inventive. This venture has to succeed and so it will.

  Curtis Jackson

  Moving, Thinking, Creating

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• Any reward that is worth having only comes to the industrious. The success which is made in any walk of life is measured almost exactly by the amount of hard work that is put into it.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Rewards, Life Is, Made

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• When you come off the court and you feel like you were losing the whole match, and all of a sudden you pulled it out, you know, it's those moments that you feel you've trained for and you work hard for. Just lucky to get through.

  Maria Sharapova

  Lucky, Losing, Like You

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• I do enjoy making videos, even though they are long days and very hard work.

  Tanya Tucker

  Long, Video, Enjoy

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• Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Spiritual, Humility, Essentials

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• Just remember--if you are really and truly determined to work with animals, somehow, either now or later, you will find a way to do it. But you have to want it desperately, work hard, take advantage of an opportunity--and never give up.

  Jane Goodall

  Giving Up, Animal, Opportunity

  Jane Goodall (2016). “My Life with the Chimpanzees”, p.69, iBooks

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