Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Lincoln

I am always for the man who wishes to work.

Abraham Lincoln

The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point.

Abraham Lincoln

The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for himself; then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This, say its advocates, is free labor-the just and generous, and prosperous system, which opens the way for all-gives hope to all, and energy, and progress, and improvement of condition to all.

Abraham Lincoln

And, inasmuch [as] most good things are produced by labour, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose labour has produced them. But it has so happened in all ages of the world, that some have laboured, and others have, without labour, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and should not continue. To [secure] to each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good government.

Abraham Lincoln

If you intend to go to work there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to work, you can not get along anywhere.

Amy Poehler

I like hard work and I don’t like pretending things are perfect.

Allen Iverson

I just wanted to set a good example. I wanted to do things that I hadn't done before. My whole thing was to just try to be professional. I think when you work hard, good things happen, so obviously, because we're going to the Finals.

Allen Iverson

When you work hard, good things happen

Adrian Beltre

I work hard on my defense. It's something I take pride in, but it's nothing that I want to brag about. It's part of my game.

Abraham Maslow

Plateau experiencing can be achieved, learned, earned by long hard work.... A transient glimpse is certainly possible in the peak experiences which may, after all, come sometimes to anyone. But, so to speak, to take up residence on the high plateau .... that is another matter altogether. That tends to be a lifelong effort.

Abraham Lincoln

Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

Abraham Lincoln

Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is the true standard of value.

Abraham Lincoln

Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants, and honey-bees, provide food for winter; but just in the same way they did, when Solomon referred the sluggard to them as patterns of prudence. Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.

Albert Einstein

Thinking is hard work; that's why so few do it.

Albert Einstein

My internal and external life depend so much on the work of others that I must make an extreme effort to give as much as I receive.

Alfred P. Sloan

Work hard. There is no short cut.

Alex Ferguson

Hard work will always overcome natural talent when natural talent does not work hard enough.

Adrienne Bailon

Autism doesn't have to define a person. Artists with autism are like anyone else: They define themselves through hard work and individuality.

Adrian Peterson

I dedicate myself and work hard in the weight room and treat every practice as if it were a game.

James Woods

Achieving success as an actor has not been easy for me. My biggest, probably most irrational complaint has been that I've had to work harder for what I've gotten. I've seen other people with nepotism or wealth or cheesy good looks on their side who've had.

James Wolk

I always feel like hard work leads the way, and from there, I leave it up to the powers that be.

Jane Smiley

Somehow, knowing that Alzheimer's is coming mocks all one's aspirations - to tell stories, to think through certain issues as only a novel can do, to be recognised for one's accomplishments and hard work - in a way that old familiar death does not.

Ben Feldman

Work hard. Think big. Listen well.

Carl Sandburg

I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.

Carl Sandburg

To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damned hard.

Caprice Bourret

I'm a big believer in persistence, don't be greedy and, above all, work hard. It's what keeps me going.

Cameron Diaz

I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I've worked very hard in the last ten years of my life, definitely, and I can tell you that hard work pays off. It's not just a cliche.

Calvin Coolidge

Any reward that is worth having only comes to the industrious. The success which is made in any walk of life is measured almost exactly by the amount of hard work that is put into it.

Celine Dion

I don't just sing for free. It's my work. You're paid for what you do. And I work hard.

Al Franken

Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you'll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor. Medicare was established to secure that promise.

Bonnie Tyler

Fabulous place, Dublin is. The trouble is, you work hard and in Dublin you play hard as well.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

The best and easiest lesson for me was to learn that writing is mostly hard work.