Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harry S Truman

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word. Never get too big for your britches. Trust in God. Have no fear; and Never forget a friend.

J. M. W. Turner

I know of no genius but the genius of hard work.

J. K. Rowling

Dudley thought for a moment. It looked like hard work.

Guillermo del Toro

You think if you work hard enough, you can fix the precious things you've broken - rather than being careful with them in the first place.

Greg Kinnear

I find fear is a great motivator to work hard.

Jerry Bruckheimer

You can't be afraid of hard work or long hours. Sacrifice is important.

Hugh Jackman

If somebody in your industry is more successful than you, it's because he works harder than you.

Horace

He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]

Huey Long

Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy.

Hubert H. Humphrey

If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.

Howard Stern

When you hire me, you hire a nut who is going to work 24 hours a day for you and never, ever burn his audience.

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.

Neale Donald Walsch

Life is about your soul, not about your body and not about your mind. Most people work hard to keep the body happy. Then they seek to stimulate their mind. Then... if there is time... they look after their soul. Yet the most beneficial priority has it just the other way around... When was the last time you paid attention to your soul?

Nandan Nilekani

Bangalore needs a honest, passionate and hard-working MP, and I will be that MP.

Morgan Freeman

Stage is really hard work. You've got to do it every night. Not like doing it once and walking away.

Miles Davis

You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line... We're just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.

Jose Reyes

I have to work hard for my family. They don't have a lot.

Jo Brand

It's got too much hard work slapping them and telling them to shut up.

Jo Brand

I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to office-hugging, bone-idle types, to apathetic, disengaged automatons.

John C. Reilly

I come from a pretty working-class neighborhood in Chicago. Hard work was just expected of you. It wasn't some noble thing you did; it was a prerequisite. It's what a man did. You get up, you put on your boots, and you work hard. We've lost a lot of that, I'm afraid.

John C. Maxwell

Someone once defined hard work as the accumulation of the easy things you didn't do when you should have.

James Surowiecki

Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But forecasting an uncertain future and deciding the best course of action in the face of that future are much less likely to do so. And much of what we've seen so far suggests that a large group of diverse individuals will come up with better and more robust forecasts and make more intelligent decisions than even the most skilled "decision maker."

James Prescott Joule

The animal frame, though destined to fulfill so many other ends, is as a machine more perfect than the best contrived steam-engine-that is, is capable of more work with the same expenditure of fuel.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Women work harder. And women are more honest; they have less reasons to be corrupt.

Emily Bronte

I got the sexton, who was digging Linton’s grave, to remove the earth off her coffin lid, and I opened it. I thought, once, I would have stayed there, when I saw her face again—it is hers yet—he had hard work to stir me; but he said it would change, if the air blew on it...

Ellen Terry

Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success upon the stage. And I am still of the same opinion. Imagination, industry [hard work], and intelligence-the three I's-are all indispensable to the actor, but of these three the greatest is, without any doubt, imagination.

Hayley Williams

I just feel like bands always need to work harder than the hardest working band. You need to constantly be one-upping yourself and surprising yourself at how hard that you'll work and devote yourself to your craft.

Henry Ford

Thinking is hard work, which is why so few people do it.

Henry Ward Beecher

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