Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.

Dalai Lama

Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.

Dolly Parton

I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.

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.

Clement Freud

I find it hard to say, because when I was there it seemed to be shut.

Dan Simmons

Its hard to die. Harder to live

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.

Daniel Okrent

That first week, I also went to Washington. That was really tough. I sympathize with those Washington figures who have to face 40 Times Washington bureau reporters. They ask hard questions and they're relentless. And they were quite suspicious and quite dubious about me.

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.

Curt Schilling

More often than not, what you open, unwrap and install on your hard drive is not what you were told you were getting.

Daniel Tosh

The hardest working person in showbusiness has never been or ever will be a 'famous person'.

Dave Eggers

I always had a hard time with fiction. It does feel like driving a car in a clown suit. You're going somewhere, but you're in costume, and you're not really fooling anybody. You're the guy in costume, and everybody's supposed to forget that and go along with you. Obviously, it can work, it works all the time - well, it doesn't always work. Still, no matter what, I'm always looking at the form and addressing it, not ignoring it.

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 Levithan

Even though it was hard to see you, it was good to see you.

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.

Debbie Meyer

I knew what my times were and how my practices were progressing and how close I was to the goals I had set for the year. I swam hard. I always swam hard. If I didn't, I knew I would pay for it either the next day or the next meet.

Dean Karnazes

Go out hard and finish harder.