Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Cramer

I wish it grew on trees, but it takes hard work to make money.

Jessica Savitch

For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.

Jeremy Piven

People need to know you have to walk through that rejection, and it's only going to fuel you. If you can somehow look at it like it's a gift, you're just going to regroup, and work harder, and go deeper. So just embrace it.

Glen Mazzara

It's better to grow your employees, steer them into a place that they can learn and succeed, and want to work hard and be loyal, than to have a revolving door of employees. That's demoralizing.

Glenn Beck

But are we even capable of maintaining a Republic anymore? Are there enough citizens willing to do the hard work that self-rule requires, or have we become a people who would rather be cared for, fed, clothed, housed, and told what's best for us by a parentlike state? Unfortunately, the evidence suggests the latter.

Greta Garbo

I always wanted to do my best. I got nothing free—I had to work hard.

Most men have worried about things which never happened, and more men have been killed by worry than by hard work.

Georges St-Pierre

Innovation is a discipline not a lottery... It comes from the combination of two elements within my control: hard work and openmindedness.

Henry David Thoreau

We are often struck by the force and precision of style to which hard-working men, unpracticed in writing, easily attain when required to make the effort. As if plainness and vigor and sincerity, the ornaments of style, were better learned on the farm and in the workshop than in the schools. The sentences written by such rude hands are nervous and tough, like hardened thongs, the sinews of the deer, or the roots of the pine.

Henry David Thoreau

I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. All great enterprises are self-supporting. The poet, for instance, must sustain his body by his poetry, as a steam planing-mill feeds its boilers with the shavings it makes. You must get your living by loving.

Jennifer Egan

There's something very strange about associating me with that prize. I had hoped for it in a more directed way as a journalist. Somehow as a journalist you know there are Pulitzers out there and you can work hard and get one. To win it for Fiction seems unbelievable.

Jeff Garcia

When you think about your heritage, you think about toughness and hard work.

Jeff Goldblum

People work harder when conditions are worse.

Jenny Slate

I just want to work hard. I love that feeling.

Jeffrey Gitomer

There's no lotion or potion that will make sales faster and easier for you - unless your potion is hard work.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Most people will not do the hard work it takes to make success easy. Don't be like most people.

Jim Gaffigan

A lot of people are like, "You're doing commercials?" And I honestly feel like those Sierra Mist commercials are better than a lot of sitcoms I get offered. It's hard work, and I'm paid a lot of money, and I do it because I love the soda.

Jesse James Garrett

Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.

Jesse Helms

What I am suggesting is hard work and it can be slow work, but the rewards are well worth it.

Jennifer Lopez

I always have to work hard to find a way to disconnect from the thinking until it becomes second nature to me because that's where you find the best moments. Dancing is like that for me all the time. It makes me feel free.

Jennifer Lopez

When I was young, I was just about hard work. But as I got older, I did experience anxiety, doubt, judgment, and it's so easy to lose yourself for a second.

Jennifer Lopez

I always love when everybody else is really bringing their game, because it's only going to make the movie better; it just makes you work harder and they work harder and everybody is trying to get their little bit in. It's competitive in a constructive way.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

Work hard with passion and courage. Life is a marathon of contribution. You really must work hard to accomplish something... Find your passion and get good at it.

James Cameron

Don't get seduced by your own stuff; work hard to keep a blank slate state of mind each time you watch your film.

Jahangir Khan

To be the best, I had to work harder than everyone else.

Jahangir Khan

If you have the passion to do something, work hard, stay honest and nothing can stop you to accomplish it.

Jahangir Khan

Without hard work and discipline it is difficult to be a top professional.

Jacqueline Bisset

I work hard, and I tend to play hard. I very seldom rest hard.

Gary Wright

No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it.

Gary Snyder

Read carefully, then don't read; work hard, then forget about it; know your tradition, then liberate yourself from it; learn language, then free yourself from it. Finally, know at least one form of magic.

Garrett Camp

You have to be ready for hard work and frugal spending to get the idea off the ground.

Fulton J. Sheen

Men work harder and more readily when they labor on that which is their own.

Jeff Lindsay

It was always hard work to push through a crowed of reporters with the scent of blood in their nostrils. You might not think so, since on camera they appear to be brain-damaged wimps with severe eating disorders. But put them at a police barricade and a miraculous thing happens...The strength comes from some mysterious place-and somehow, when there is gore on the ground, these anorexic creatures can push their way through anything. Without mussing their hair, too.