Hard Work Quotes - Page 6

• All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

  Pope Paul VI

  Inspirational, Block, Selfish

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• Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

  Horace

  Life, Work, Hardship

  "Satires". Book by Horace, Book I, satire ix, line 59, c. 35 BC and 30 BC.

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• If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

  James A. Garfield

  Work, Skills, Presidential

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• Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

  Lucille Ball

  Inspirational, Motivational, Uplifting

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• Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

  Vince Lombardi

  Sports, Respect, Football

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• You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Mother, Men, Mind

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8255, Delphi Classics

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• All roads that lead to success have to pass through hard work boulevard at some point.

  Eric Thomas

  Work, Hard, Boulevard

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• Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

  Earl Nightingale

  Motivational, Passion, Thinking

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• To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.

  Ralph Bunche

  Motivational, Success, Perseverance

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• No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Dream, Appreciate, Rewards

  Anthony Bourdain (2001). “Kitchen Confidential”, p.56, A&C Black

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• If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.

  George Monbiot

  Would Be, Wealth, Results

  "The 1% are the very best destroyers of wealth the world has ever seen" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2011.

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• It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But anything more than that you can't. Anything more than that is luck.

  Haruki Murakami

  Attitude, Luck, Can Do

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• At Netflix, we think you have to build a sense of responsibility where people care about the enterprise. Hard work, like long hours at the office, doesn't matter as much to us. We care about great work.

  Reed Hastings

  Responsibility, Thinking, Office

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• I'm really very self-confident when it comes to my work. When I take on a project, I believe in it 100%. I really put my soul into it. I'd die for it. That's how I am.

  Michael Jackson

  Believe, Self, Perfection

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Apr 17, 2012

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• Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch.

  Honore de Balzac

  Art, Lying, Real

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Old Goriot: Classic French Literature”, p.90, 谷月社

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• Honor lies in honest toil.

  Grover Cleveland

  Success, Honesty, Work

  Grover Cleveland (1909). “Addresses, State Papers and Letters”

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  I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

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  Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

  Louis Pasteur

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem". Book by Wayne Dyer, 1975.

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• Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "From Telegraph to Light Bulb with Thomas Edison". Book by Deborah Headstrom-Page, 2007.

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  Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Eark Nightingale, Claude M. Bristol, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02”, p.6, Lulu.com

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• If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.

  Steve Jobs

  Motivational, Inspirational Life, Believe In Yourself

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• To the young: Work, work, work, and then work some more!

  Ed Reed

  Motivational, Work, Advice

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• Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn't quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out. Gentlemen, as of this moment, I am that second mouse.

  Frank Abagnale

  Perseverance, Giving Up, Attitude

  "Catch Me If You Can". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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  Worrying gets you nowhere. If you turn up worrying about how you're going to perform, you've already lost. Train hard, turn up, run your best and the rest will take care of itself.

  Usain Bolt

  Success, Running, Perseverance

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• When you're not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win.

  Bill Bradley

  Inspirational, Sports, Winning

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