Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Sweeney

I think the must-have power qualities for a female or male power leader are really the ability to focus, to work hard, to be extremely goal oriented and to not let the noise and the nonsense interfere with your mission - what you really feel you want to do with your career and your life.

Anna Deavere Smith

I have a lot of optimism about new doctors because I think it's really clear that it's a lot of hard work and no guarantee of a lot of money.

Andrew Sullivan

Bush has legitimized a huge expansion of the welfare state, liberalizing immigration, and using force for democratization abroad. All the next Democratic president has to do to finish Bush's hard work is to raise taxes to pay for it all.

Andre Maurois

Genius consists of equal parts of natural aptitude and hard work.

Andy Murray

For me the most important thing has always been tennis, and that's what I want to get across the image I want to portray is a hard-working tennis player.

Albert Pujols

You know your talent. You know if you work hard, your hard work is going to pay off one day.

Donald Barthelme

The self cannot be escaped, but it can be, with ingenuity and hard work, distracted.

Donald Trump

When you love what you do, you tend to work harder anyway

Dorothy Day

Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.

Don Shula

I have no magic formula. The only way I know to win is through hard work.

Dwayne Johnson

If you've ever been hungry then you'll never be full and I know what it's like to be hungry. When I was 13, I realized I could control my destiny through hard work. I had my hands and I was going to work my ass off, I was going to initiate and create some sort of change in my life.

Dwayne Johnson

I've learned over the years that when it comes to success, consistency is key. Consistent hard work that we may not like doing today, but for a payoff we'll love tomorrow. Earn it. Enjoy it.

Dev Patel

I'm not a Casanova in 'The Newsroom,' by the way - just another hard worker.

David Wilkerson

We humans can work hard for each other, and we should and we must work. But it is God, and only God, who heals.

David Ogden Stiers

Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.

David Ortiz

I'm just trying to work hard every day, trying to be a better player and one day, to be right there with them, one of those special hitters.

David O. McKay

The greatest forces in the world are being used against families and traditional family values. These values are being undermined in subtle and in not-so-subtle ways. Because of this assault on family values, it takes all of your best efforts to fortify your family. It takes hard work and planning. It takes sacrifice. 'In the setting of the family...may I suggest that we give more of ourselves.'

David Ogilvy

Hard work never killed a man. Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work.

Daunte Culpepper

I don't think there's a limit as long as I keep my head right, don't get above myself, work hard and remember where I came from.

Darius Rucker

I work hard to let my wife know how much I love her. I try to do that every day.

Daryl Hall

If you work hard and you're good, you can build something for yourself.

Danica Patrick

Winning is the obvious goal, but it's not easy. There are so many good drivers and every week is different. I want to win badly, but I understand that it's going to take hard work. In the meantime I'll continue to set obtainable goals and do my best both on and off the racetrack.

Condoleezza Rice

Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same. If you are too attentive to the former, you will most certainly not do the hard work of securing the latter.

Condoleezza Rice

In America, with education and hard work, it really does not matter where you came from; it matters only where you are going.

Dan Quayle

Americans have always excelled through hard work, innovation, and an ability to find solutions that makes us unique among nations.

Colonel Sanders

Hard work beats all the tonics and vitamins in the world.

Danielle Steel

There was nothing you couldn't do if you wanted it bad enough, and were willing to work hard enough to get it.

David Livingstone

Fear God and work hard.

David Hasselhoff

Getting in shape for this role, which is incredibly demanding, vocally, has been a lot of hard work, but I'm nailing it. I'm even kind of, at times, blowing my own mind, because I am even able to talk right now.

David Canary

To be able to make a good living in a challenging medium like soap operas is great. The best is that I get to act and am rewarded for it. And the people I work with are great. Funny, intelligent, hard working. They're all great to be around.

David Lindsay-Abaire

We have this myth that if you work hard, you can accomplish anything. It's not a very American thing to say, but I don't think that's true. It's true for a lot of people, but you need other things to succeed. You need luck, you need opportunity, and you need the life skills to recognize what an opportunity is.

David Eddings

Start early and work hard. A writer's apprenticeship usually involves writing a million words (which are then discarded) before he's almost ready to begin. That takes a while.

Debbie Reynolds

I never dreamt of being in the movies. I was from a very average, I would say, a rather poor family, so my big treat was to work hard all week - I mowed lawns and babysat and washed dishes and washed cars - to go to the movies.