Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marilynne Robinson

It is hardship that makes clear who the "fighters" are.

Pat Nixon

I didnt know what it was not to work hard as I grew up.

Pat Metheny

I saw A Hard Day's Night 12 or 13 times.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury problem.

Paula Creamer

I just have to keep working hard.

Paula Deen

Working with family is probably one of the hardest things in business, but it can also be one of the most rewarding. You have to be very, very careful that you don't overstep the boundaries that you wouldn't with anyone else. Sometimes, we think that the unconditional love they have for us makes overstepping boundaries alright. It's really not. You have to work harder to not damage the family dynamic. That lasts forever.

Mary Ellen Mark

Finding the right subject is the hardest part.

Martin Parr

Work harder, get closer and be passionate about what you photograph.

Lee Ann Womack

The satisfaction comes because you work hard and it pays off. It is not as glamorous as I thought it would be, but, you know, I appreciate it more than I ever knew I would, and I love it more than I ever knew I would.

Lee Child

Hit them fast, hit them hard, and hit them a lot.

Peyton Manning

If you work hard and you play well, all those critics quiet themselves pretty quickly.

Peter Dinklage

Saying I was lucky negates the hard work I put in and spits on that guy who’s freezing his ass off back in Brooklyn.

Peter Drucker

Elephants have a hard time adapting. Cockroaches outlive everything.

Marlon Wayans

I was 160lbs when I started and I went up to 195lbs. There were no steroids. But it was hard work, dedication, hitting the gym. You kind of see it.

Marlee Matlin

I find the mantle of, she works hard for the money, or, she's overcome so many obstacles a bit overused.

Mariska Hargitay

I've always heard that you'll know, but I never understood it. With Peter, we even broke up after we dated for a year, for two or three months, but I still knew. I knew there was something different about this union. Even through the hard times, it was like "How are we going to get through this?

Mariano Rivera

If I have to win one game, I’d have a hard time taking anybody over Dustin Pedroia as my second baseman.

Maria Sharapova

When you come off the court and you feel like you were losing the whole match, and all of a sudden you pulled it out, you know, it's those moments that you feel you've trained for and you work hard for. Just lucky to get through.

Maria Sharapova

I have had lots of luck in my career but there has also been a lot of hard work.

Maria Sharapova

I think that's why I play tennis, because of the challenge, because of the competition, .. That's why we love to play tiebreaker in the third set. It makes it more exciting, and the bigger support in the stand, and more fans involved in it. I really enjoyed the competition and took a lot of hard work to make myself No. 1 at 18 years old.

Megyn Kelly

The way we do it on the Fox News Channel is the straight news anchors like us give a hard time to both sides.

Max Planck

The whole strenuous intellectual work of an industrious research worker would appear, after all, in vain and hopeless, if he were not occasionally through some striking facts to find that he had, at the end of all his criss-cross journeys, at last accomplished at least one step which was conclusively nearer the truth.

May Sarton

Time unbounded is hard to handle.

May Sarton

How much hope, expectation, and sheer hard work goes into the smallest success! There is no being sure of anything except that whatever has been created will change in time...

Matthew Lillard

The older I get, the more I can't stand violence and have a hard time with seeing people die in horrific ways. It gets harder and harder to watch and deal with that stuff.

Mattie Stepanek

I think that someone is watching out for me, God, my guardian angel, I'm not sure who that is, but they really work hard.

Mario Lemieux

I think that with a lot of hard work and dedication, I feel that I could be the best in the world. I'm still only 35 years old... I have a fresh start physically and mentally, and I feel that I can achieve my goal to be the best again.

Master P

Work hard and never make excuses.

Michael Moore

Capitalism is an organized system to guarantee that greed becomes the primary force of our economic system and allows the few at the top to get very wealthy and has the rest of us riding around thinking we can be that way, too - if we just work hard enough, sell enough Tupperware and Amway products, we can get a pink Cadillac.

Michael Chertoff

We always monitor the flow of information, intelligence, threat streams to see whether we have any indication there's some imminent. We work hard to identify potential cells and disrupt them. This is one of the reasons we put so much emphasis on intelligence gathering.

Michael Connelly

In a daydream sort of way, I think it would be pretty cool to direct a movie. But I have been on movie and TV sets and know it is hard work. I like directing it in my mind. It is easier.

Martina McBride

A big part of who I am is just the way I was raised. Nobody is better than anyone else, and if you really work hard, you might get lucky and get what you want.

Mark Cuban

Do your homework and know your business better than anyone. Otherwise, someone who knows more and works harder will kick your ass.