Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Lee

Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.

Conan O'Brien

President Obama gave a speech about healthcare tonight, and yesterday he gave a pep talk to students. He told them that in order to succeed they need to work hard and study hard. Then today, former President George W. Bush presented the rebuttal.

Conan O'Brien

Don't be cynical; it leads nowhere. If you work hard, and are kind, amazing things will happen to you.

Conan O'Brien

President Bush delivered a commencement speech at a university in Wisconsin. A very inspirational speech. Apparently Bush told the students, 'You can do anything in life if your parents work hard enough.'

Dwight Howard

Coming out of high school, I think it was good for me instead of going to college because college and the NBA are two different things. You can dominate on the college level, but the NBA is a whole different story. The dudes that do the best are the ones who work hard.

Dwight Howard

I'll joke all day, but once I get in the gym, I'm going to work hard.

Colin Mochrie

To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap.

Anne Lamott

Age has given me the gift of me; it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get to be the woman I've already dreamt of being. Which is somebody who can do rest and do hard work and be a really constant companion, a constant, tender-hearted wife to myself.

Albert Bandura

People infer high self-efficacy from successes achieved through minimal effort on difficult tasks, but they infer low self-efficacy if they had to work hard under favorable conditions to master relatively easy tasks

Annie Leibovitz

Most people, especially successful people, are hard-working. They want to participate. They want to do things well.

D. H. Lawrence

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

Clint Howard

People don't realize that doing a horror movie is hard work. You're out there all day screaming your lungs out, breathing in toxic make-up fumes, rolling around in the dirt, getting your eyebrows burned off - it's not like doing a sitcom.

Clint Black

I just keep my head down and work hard on what I do.

Daniel Cudmore

People always talk about how diet is such a massive part of training, but they think that if they cheat all the time they can somehow out-do the damage in the gym. The key is to keep it balanced and stay on the diet and do the hard work, and when you push through your body will really start to respond.

David Mamet

There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough.

David Copperfield

All the lawyers and the business stuff is work, but actually creating stuff isn't work. It's good effort. It's hard work. But, it's not work. It doesn't feel like work because the result is very rewarding.

David Copperfield

Physical rehab is often very, very hard work.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Hope spurs humans everywhere to work harder to endure more now that the future may be better.

Douglas Adams

We are stuck with technology when all we really want is just stuff that works. How do you recognize something that is still technology? A good clue is if it comes with a manual.

Donna Summer

She works hard for the money so you better treat her right.

Donald Hall

Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing.

Cristela Alonzo

Whatever you want to do with your life, you really got to want it. And if you want it, and you work hard, it will happen.

Creed Bratton

You've got to be happy, you have to do this thing [music] for the love. It's not like you go into music because it's going to make a lot of money. It's something you do... that's the thing. You got to accept all that hard work with it, too. And enjoy it, and love it.

Countee Cullen

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.

Cory Monteith

I think if you show up and you work hard and you're straightforward, you can always create your own opportunities. I hope I'm right.

Cory Doctorow

It is not gender, nor age, nor race, but your ability to work hard at what you love.

E. B. White

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

Dustin Pedroia

I just show up to the yard, work hard, and play as hard as I can.

Dustin Lynch

Hard work always pays off, whatever you do.

Amanda Schull

I think one of my biggest lessons so far in life is that hard work really does pay off. It may not culminate in the way you expected it to, but I have found that when I really put my head down and apply myself, I often get a good result.

Anne Dudley

My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the time. Sometimes comedy is not a bundle of laughs to actually do.

Chuck Feeney

I set out to work hard, not to get rich.

Allyson Felix

I try to think about my goals. I think about my competitors-I know they're working hard, and if they are, I have to work hard too. I have to be one step ahead of them.