Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brad Bird

But I don't just see the movie when I see the movie, I see all the great people who worked on it and all their hard work, because they could not have worked any harder.

Bobby Orr

You don't win by being good. You win with hard work and sacrifice. Without that, skill is just potential.

Benjamin Franklin

Wouldst thou enjoy a long Life, a healthy Body, and a vigorous Mind, and be acquainted also with the wonderful Works of God? labour in the first place to bring thy Appetite into Subjection to Reason.

Ben Affleck

Online gambling is very seductive and very illusory. It can seem like a really good idea. It can seem like what people told you to work hard and get ahead, but when someone shows you something and it's too good to be true, it probably is.

Ben Affleck

You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.

Barbara Walters

Work harder than everybody. You're not going to get it by whining, and you're not going to get it by shouting, and you're not going to get it by quitting. You're going to get it by being there.

Barbara Tuchman

Historians who stuff in every item of research they have found, every shoelace and telephone call of a biographical subject, are not doing the hard work of selecting and shaping a readable story.

Arthur Brisbane

The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man to seize, is hard work.

Anton Chekhov

Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.

Bela Lugosi

It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.

Bella Thorne

I want people to look at my films and say 'Wow, she's a good actress', and I know I'll have to work hard for that.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I don't like to be called a symbol. And I don't like to be called an icon. I will just say that I have to work very, very hard. So I'd rather be known as a hard worker. I don't think symbols do much, nor icons.

I have a hard time repeating myself.

Ariel Pink

Everything comes with hard work. You never get to stop working. I don't see myself ever getting comfortable enough to not have to worry about working.

Arianna Huffington

Clearly drive, IQ, and hard work are incredibly important. But ultimately what matters most is resilience--the ability to quickly rebound from failures, indeed to see failure as a stepping stone to success.

Diane Cilento

I was a hard worker, and I always knew my lines.

Diana Vreeland

No one knows how hard one works.

Diane Ackerman

I think that very often younger writers don't appreciate how much hard work is involved in writing. The part of writing that's magic is the thinnest rind on the world of creation. Most of a writer's life is just work. It happens to be a kind of work that the writer finds fulfilling in the same way that a watchmaker can happily spend countless hours fiddling over the tiny cogs and bits of wire. ... I think the people who end up being writers are people who don't get bored doing that kind of tight focus in small areas.

Derrick Rose

I think I work hard. I think I dedicate myself to the game and sacrifice a lot of things at a young age, and I know if I continue to do good, what I can get out of it.

Anton Corbijn

Working with actors is something I've never done before. I find it tremendous. It's hard work.

Rupert Penry-Jones

Working hard as an actor means you're doing what you want to do.

Brittany Howard

We're from Athens, Alabama. That's my town. People think it's Muscle Shoals, but they have no idea. It's a quiet, sleepy little town, about 45 minutes from Muscle Shoals. It's really hard to be a band in Athens; there are no venues.

We're hoping our hard training and practice will help us play well for the victory.

We're honored to be chosen. We'll work as hard as we can to live up to it.

Gilbert Arenas

We're battling. It's going to be like this the rest of the way. It's going to be hard to tell whose 4,5,6, or 7 -- you just have to keep going.

John Hughes

A geek is a guy who has everything going for him but he's just too young. He's got the software but he doesn't have the hardware yet.

Leonard Boswell

The March on Washington was a culmination of years of hard work and dedication of many individuals.

Les Claypool

It's always hard to put your finger on what it is that makes Primus Primus.

Kay Redfield Jamison

'An Unquiet Mind' wasn't hard to write in terms of the actual writing of it.

Kenneth Langone

I worked hard to get where I am. And I started with nothing.

To pinpoint it exactly, numerically, is hard to do, but it has picked up.

Joakim Noah

Throughout my journey in basketball, I always have someone to talk to in my father. I know how hard he had to work as an athlete.

We're ready to go through the summer and work hard to get better.