Hard Work Quotes - Page 40

• Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level - neither too low nor too high. A good goal should be lofty enough to inspire hard work, yet realistic enough to provide solid hope of attainment.

  Greg Norman

  Basketball, Art, Games

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• Be honest and work hard to get what you want. Don't take shortcuts; you only cheat yourself in the long run. Success is not measured by money or fame, but by how you feel about your own goals and accomplishments and the time and effort you put into them.

  Willie Stargell

  Basketball, Running, Accomplishment

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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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• Love your sport. Never do it to please someone else; it has to be yours. That is all that will justify the hard work. Compete against yourself, not others, for that is who is truly your best competition.

  Peggy Fleming

  Sports, Love You, Competition

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• When I was 15, I had lucky underwear. When that failed, I had a lucky hairdo, then a lucky race number, even lucky race days. After 15 years, I've found the secret to success is hard work.

  Margaret Groos

  Sports, Race, Years

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• Perseverance isn't just the willingness to work hard. It's that plus the willingness to be stubborn about your own belief in yourself.

  Merlin Olsen

  Success, Sports, Perseverance

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• You have to work hard at staying in contact with your friends so that the relationships will continue and live on... Friendships, along with love, make life worth living.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Volleyball, Life Worth Living, Contact

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• The will to win is more important then the skill to win. It is possible to achieve only what you actively pursue. Cogito, ergo sum. I think, therefore I am. Keep your head high and work hard everyday, because you'll never get that day back

  Lloy Ball

  Leadership, Volleyball, Winning

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• You have to work hard AND well. There are a lot of people who work hard but not well.

  Jose Mourinho

  Volleyball, People, Wells

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• If you are not prepared, you cannot work out intensely. If you do not perform, you cannot get results, and if you can't do your best to recover, you won't get the benefits of your hard work.

  Kerri Walsh

  Inspirational, Funny, Volleyball

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• Confidence comes from hard work. It comes from facing different situations and making putts. It comes from knowing you've worked on the right things, so when you get under the gun, you can execute what you've practiced.

  David Duval

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• A true champion works hard and never loses sight of her dreams.

  Dot Richardson

  Softball, Sports, Dream

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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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• It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.

  Ouida

  Mother, Kissing, Littles

  Ouida (2016). “Signa”, p.14, Ouida

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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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• That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.

  Francis Hutcheson

  Happiness, Acting, Action

  'An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue' (1725) treatise 2, sect. 3, subsect. 8.

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• I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does -- and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be. [With Scott] I wanted to see him as a white knight and was crushed whenever anything normal happened. I wanted to be the princess. Now I'm much more willing to see myself as human and flawed, and accept someone -- the whole picture. My life is definitely changing for the better. I couldn't be happier or feel more comfortable with the direction it's going in.

  Jennifer Garner

  Princess, Knights, White

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• What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.

  Thomas Sprat

  Inspirational, Self Improvement, Care

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• It takes a lot of hard work and dedication just like any pro sport. Especially for beach volleyball you don't have to be tall or as fast as other sports. You just have to have the skills.

  Misty May-Treanor

  Inspirational, Funny, Sports

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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 difference between possible and impossible is hard work and commitment.

  Bob Dole

  Commitment, Possible And Impossible, Differences

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• If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

  Vic Oliver

  Money, Ambition, Men

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• ...great difficulties are felt at first and these cannot be overcome except by starting from experiments .. and then be conceiving certain hypotheses ... But even so, very much hard work remains to be done and one needs not only great perspicacity but often a degree of good fortune.

  Christiaan Huygens

  Science, Luck, Degrees

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• Pray for intestinal fortitude, work hard, and keep the faith. Oh, and pray for good luck, you're gonna need it.

  Jerry Reed

  Good Luck, Needs, Praying

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