Famous Quotes & Sayings

Betty Williams

We have to create a world in which there are no unknown, hostile aliens at the other end of any missiles, and that is going to take a tremendous amount of sheer hard work. The only force which can break down those barriers is the force of love, the force of truth, soul-force...

Beyonce Knowles

Take the time to define yourself and define your value. If you're having a hard time doing that, ask yourself: What is something I would say to someone I love?

Beyonce Knowles

Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.

Beyonce Knowles

If you work hard, whatever you want, it will come to you. I know that's easier said than done, but keep trying.

Bernhard Langer

Competition is healthy. It makes you work harder and strive for more and try to find that extra one or two percent in your game that you could possibly improve.

Eddie Marsan

There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.

Ed Bradley

There was no one around me who didn't work hard.

Ed Bradley

You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to.

David Riesman

There is evidence that young men in the big law firms, although they still work harder than most of their clients, do not glory in putting in night work and weekend hours as they once did.

David Hockney

Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I try to work hard. I'm really proud of what I get to do as a living. I still pinch myself. But I also know it's a craft, and I can get better at it and learn every time I do it. So I try to work hard no matter what the task is.

Edwin Land

Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.

Edward Kennedy

Immigrant families have integrated themselves into our communities, establishing deep roots. Whenever they have settled, they have made lasting contributions to the economic vitality and diversity of our communities and our nation. Our economy depends on these hard-working, taxpaying workers. They have assisted America in its economic boom.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

O troubled forms, O early love unfortunate and hard, Time has estranged you into a jewel cold and pure

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.