Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jamais Cascio

Futures thinking is hard work. Fortunately, you do get better at it with practice. It's worth the effort.

Jacques Barzun

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

J. R. R. Tolkien

The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command.

Elon Musk

When people really understand it's do or die [and] if we work hard and pull through, it's going to be a great outcome; people will give it everything they've got.

Elton John

Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers.

Jussie Smollett

You work hard and you pray, and you do something where you know the energy around the project is right, but you never really know if it's going to hit and resonate with audiences.

Judd Apatow

I remember before I did my HBO special, Chris [Rock] screamed at me - in a loving way, but still. He was like, "You need to do 200 shows in a row and a month straight on the road before you even think about recording a special!" And I had literally booked two weeks on the road and then went right into the recording. It put me in a panic, but it also made me work harder and made me realize that everyone works differently, and that's okay.

Leonardo DiCaprio

I like to prepare as much as possible beforehand, but there's definitely that element of fear when you're on set, and you have to be conscious of it and use that fear to drive you to work harder.

Leven Rambin

A lot of hard work has to go into your career, and preparation, and being your best at all times.

Lee Westwood

Yes, a Major would mean so much to me but I'm a great believer that if you work hard and in the right way, you will get what you deserve.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being, to be personally concerned about your family's income, to be personally concerned about your future. This is hard work.

Marian Wright Edelman

Don't be afraid of hard work.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Without hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the primitive forces of social stagnation. So we must help time and realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I cannot forget that the Nobel Prize for Peace was also a commission - a commission to work harder than I had ever worked before for "the brotherhood of man".

Mithun Chakraborty

I like Hrithik Roshan and Shahid Kapoor. They are amazing and very hard working when it comes to dance.

Miuccia Prada

The only way to do something in depth is to work hard.

Mitt Romney

President Obama trusts in the wisdom of government. I put my trust in the ingenuity and creativity and commitment to hard work of the American people.

Priyanka Chopra

I am just a hard-working 23-year-old. When Maxim asked me to be on their cover, I was quite surprised. Of course, I was happy about it.

Prabal Gurung

I'm not a believer of luck. I think opportunity and hard work becomes luck.

Nelly Furtado

Maneater -- make you work hard, make you spend hard, make you want all of her love.

Mike Huckabee

The health care system is really designed to reward you for being unhealthy. If you are a healthy person and work hard to be healthy, there are no benefits.

Ken Follett

Hard work should be rewarded by good food.

Kristi Yamaguchi

Winning in women's singles felt surreal. I felt that everything I had done - the hard work, the tough times - was all worth it.

Marcus Samuelsson

Cooking is in an honest profession where you cannot hide and let others do the work for you. You have to show up, work hard and prove you can do it faster and better. And find a mentor who will recognize your talent and push you in the right direction.

Kiana Tom

Regarding one's career: always be prepared, no short cuts - hard work is the only alternative that really works.

Kid Rock

You've got to work hard for your success and you've got to have a steady presence. That's the secret.

Ken Rosenthal

Best advice is this: Work hard. Nothing is given to you.

Ken Livingstone

I don't work hard enough. If I had worked harder I might have been prime minister.

Katie Holmes

Definitely trust yourself. Work hard. Be honest with yourself. And life can be joyful. It is joyful. Just give it your all and it's all going to work out.

Margaret Thatcher

We have been ruled by men who live by illusions ... the illusion that there is some other way of creating wealth than hard work and satisfying your customers.

Margaret Thatcher

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 Deland

a manufactured interest has no staying quality - especially if it involves any hard work.

Mark Twain

Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have not lived you cannot write, you can only pretend to write it...