Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shabazz Muhammad

I'm not cocky at all. You ask anybody, I'm one of the nicest guys. I try to be as humble as I can, but if you work hard, sometimes you know that you earned more respect.

Shahid Afridi

I have never compared myself to anyone, but it's hard to resist him!!

Shahrukh Khan

There is only one religion in the world-hard work

Shahrukh Khan

I work hard, like I'm sure everyone else does, and I'm very honest with the work I do.

Scott Walker

It all starts from the lyric with me. If I work really hard on the lyric and get it right, then it will tell me whatever else to do, where to go.

Richard Branson

Starting a business is a huge amount of hard work... You had better enjoy it.

Remy de Gourmont

Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time

Richard Branson

Look, if you can indulge in your passion, life will be far more interesting than if you're just working. You'll work harder at it, and you'll know more about it. But first you must go out and educate yourself on whatever it is that you've decided to do - know more about kite-surfing than anyone else. That's where the work comes in. But if you're doing things you're passionate about, that will come naturally.

Richard Branson

It's really important to find an hour or two to a day to make sure that you keep healthy, keep fit. It's very easy just to forget that aspect. And if you're feeling really good and fit, I think you can get two or three extra hours a day of hard work in as well.

Tim Howard

Stay humble, stay grounded, remember what got you to that level-and that’s hard work.

Tim Gunn

I'm constantly reminding myself that the world owes us nothing. We have to make our way and we have to work hard, persevere and make our own way in the world because the world isn't waiting for us, so let's let the world know we are here.

Robert A. Heinlein

Being privileged to work hard for long hours at something you think is worth doing is the best kind of play.

Rick Astley

Dont expect fame to come overnight. That filtered through to me in my own career. Look at Madonna: shes not the best singer in the world, but shes got where she has through hard work.

Tim Allen

I think there's a percentage [of the audience] that don't realize, that don't know that [standup] is how everything began. We planned it, we work hard, rehearsals to get this. It's more of a ... it's not just coming in there in a T-shirt and holding a microphone.

Steven Wright

In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you'd get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it's hard work, almost harder once you're successful because you've got to maintain it.

Reggie Miller

I don't have the physical talent those guys have. My hard work has made me very good.

Ray William Johnson

Maybe someday, if I work hard enough, entertainment will be a career for me, but right now making videos and uploading them to the Internet is just a hobby.

Tom Kenny

SpongeBob is a good role model as far as imaginary creatures go. He works hard and his emotional highs are very high, he's either giddy or utterly devastating and crying like a lawnsprinkler... SpongeBob is bipolar.

Toni Morrison

Like friendship, hatred needed more than physical intimacy; it wanted creativity and hard work to sustain itself

Toni Morrison

There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises.... If you write for life, you'll work hard; you'll do what's honest, not what pays

Vijay Mallya

I work hard and I play hard, too. There is nothing wrong with that.

Vijay Singh

When they say America is the land of opportunity, it's true. If you work hard, people appreciate you.

Vijay Singh

I open the driving range and I close it. I thought you ought to know that I work hard. I like practising. I enjoy it. If I did not enjoy it I would not do it. What is the point of going back to the hotel, having a drink and talking a load of bull?

Vernon Davis

If you want success, you have to work hard at it and realize that it takes time; it doesn't come to you overnight.

Robert Fripp

Purely by hard work, one can become an artist.

Renee Fleming

For a while it was hard for me to say no to work.

Thomas Huxley

From the dawn of exact knowledge to the present day, observation, experiment, and speculation have gone hand in hand; and, whenever science has halted or strayed from the right path, it has been, either because its votaries have been content with mere unverified or unverifiable speculation (and this is the commonest case, because observation and experiment are hard work, while speculation is amusing); or it has been, because the accumulation of details of observation has for a time excluded speculation.

Tom Peters

Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.

Tom Robbins

Hard times and funky living can season the soul, true enough, but joy is the yeast that makes it rise.

Tom Freston

I always hustled to make money and pay for school. I was never afraid of hard work.

Steve Prefontaine

When people go to a track meet, they're looking for something, a world record, something that hasn't been done before. You get all this magnetic energy, people focusing on one thing at the same time. I really get excited about it. It makes me want to compete even more. It makes it all worthwhile, all the hours of hard work.

Stephen Covey

I find most meetings are a waste of time, because they are so ill-prepared and there's little opportunity for true synergy in producing better solutions than what anyone originally thought of. So I work hard to only attend those meetings that have strategic importance and miss all kinds of other seemingly urgent meetings.

Stephanie Klein

Women in our generation, we were taught we can be and do anything as long as we work hard. But you can't work hard enough for two people.