Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

It is poison - rank poison - to knuckle down to care and hardships. They must come to us all, albeit in different shapes, and we may not escape them. It is not possible. But we may swindle them out of half of their puissance with a stiff upper lip.

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.

Oscar Wilde

It is awfully hard work doing nothing.

Liv Tyler

I've been spending this last month trying to find four outfits to wear to the different premieres of The Two Towers. It's hard work.

Lleyton Hewitt

That's what you do all the hard work for, to play in situations that put your body through gruelling times. If you're not up to it, pull out.

Michael Jordan

The harder I prepare, the luckier I seem to get.

Michael Crichton

Scientific research was much like prospecting: you went out and you hunted, armed with your maps and instruments, but in the ened your preparations did not matter, or even your intuition. You needed your luck, and whatever benefits accrued to the diligent, through sheer, grinding hard work.

Mia Love

Hard work and education will take you farther than any government program can ever promise.

Mia Love

The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.

Mia Farrow

I get it now; I didn't get it then. That life is about losing and about doing it as gracefully as possible... and enjoying everything in between.

Michael Robotham

People think it’s easy to be cynical and pessimistic, but it’s incredibly hard work. It’s much easier to be hopeful.

Mark Twain

The observance of Thanksgiving Day-as a function-has become general of late years. The Thankfulness is not so general. This is natural. Two-thirds of the nation have always had hard luck and a hard time during the year, and this has a calming effect upon their enthusiasm.

Mark Twain

Knighterrantry is a most chuckleheaded trade, and it is tedious hard work, too, but I begin to see that there is money in it, after all, if you have luck. Not that I would ever engage in it, as a business, for I wouldn't. No sound and legitimate business can be established on a basis of speculation. A successful whirl in the knighterrantry line--now what is it when you blow away the nonsense and come down to the cold facts? It's just a corner in pork, that's all.

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".

Marianne Faithfull

I never trusted anybody at all. I don't know why it was so hard, I just didn't.

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.

Miyavi

Sometimes life becomes a bit difficult. There are hard times and even some little things can mess up your life. Make the best out of these moments. Don’t forget to smile. You can cry as loud as you want, but smile. Just stand up and go on. You can do everything you want.

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.

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.

Kiefer Sutherland

When I wasn't the flavor of the week or month or day, those were hard times.

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.

Kelly Cutrone

When you become rich and famous and you get a lot of attention, very few people get to go through that cycle without having a hard time. Everybody in their lives has a hard period. I don't know anybody who's ever been alive who hasn't had like, heartbreak, despair, depression, death, drug or alcohol, or weight problems, or health problems.

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.