Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oliver Cromwell

Work hard, trust in God, and keep your bowels open.

Ellen Lupton

Letters do love one another. However, due to their anatomical differences, some letters have a hard time achieving intimacy.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Women work harder. And women are more honest; they have less reasons to be corrupt.

Ellen DeGeneres

People give me such a hard time because I don't wear dresses. What's that got to do with anything?

Eric Ries

The hardest part is the grueling work of constantly being wrong.

Emily Blunt

It's quite hard to faze me. I'm fairly un-shockable.

Emily Bronte

I got the sexton, who was digging Linton’s grave, to remove the earth off her coffin lid, and I opened it. I thought, once, I would have stayed there, when I saw her face again—it is hers yet—he had hard work to stir me; but he said it would change, if the air blew on it...

Henrik Lundqvist

I usually have a hard time with the fit of off-the-rack suits, thanks to my athletic proportions, but somehow Burberry always fits me perfectly. There's no tailoring really required, which is rare for me.

Henri Nouwen

Solitude, community, and ministry are certainly not just for celibates! Celibates also have a hard time keeping up.

Hayley Williams

I just feel like bands always need to work harder than the hardest working band. You need to constantly be one-upping yourself and surprising yourself at how hard that you'll work and devote yourself to your craft.

Henry Ford

Thinking is hard work, which is why so few people do it.

Henry Ward Beecher

Victories are easy and cheap. The only victories worth anything are those achieved through hard work and dedication.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The works of Lavoisier and his associates operated upon many of us at that time like the Sun's rising after a night of moonshine: but Chemistry is now betrothed to the Mathematics, and is in consequence grown somewhat shy of her former admirers.

Eric Thomas

One of the things I know about my family, my generation, and my ethic background is that we put in work and I'm not just talking about just to eat. You have to think about the civil rights movement, they were putting in work; marching, walking miles and miles, sacrificing, getting on the bus, feeding one another, they had schools, voter registration, they were working! They were hard workers so my advice is to work.

Eric Liu

Honest people know that the road to success and virtue always involves shared sacrifice, hard work, and gratification postponed. Telling people otherwise isn't leadership, it is pandering.

John Heywood

A hard beginnyng makth a good endyng.

Lindsay Whalen

Any time you are injured and can't play the way you want to play, it is frustrating. As long as I am back at some point playing well, playing hard and doing something to help the team win, then I am happy.

Any time we win it's because we've played hard. I told the kids two things: One, you'll have a lot more left at the end when you've played hard, and, two, the harder you play the luckier you get.

Janis Ian

'Society's Child' was a real hard record to start with. That's all you want is for you to put your first record out and have people screaming at you in the streets. But it taught me right away that what I was doing was valuable and important.

That's BFA hockey: We play hard to the end and most of the time we come out with a win.

That's a huge animal. That's amazing. In the States, it's hard to get them past 12 to 15 pounds.

That might be why she's lived for so long, because she worked so hard.

Jon Flanagan

That's a superior team. We played as hard as we could for 32 minutes, and we just got a little tired at the end. Our intensity and mental toughness was where I'd like it to be.

Excellent. I took him down with a hard right.

I aimed it right outside the right upright because (the wind) was going hard left. It just stayed out there.

I aimed it right, inside the upright because it was going hard left.

If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.

Steve Buscemi

I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up. The comedians by nature weren't very - I mean, they were sociable, but they hung out in cliques, and it's very hard to get accepted; lots of competition.

Elbert Hubbard

Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.

Elbert Hubbard

Most people like hard work, particularly when they're paying for it.

Edsger Dijkstra

Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better

Edsger Dijkstra

Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.

Edsger Dijkstra

...Simplifications have had a much greater long-range scientific impact than individual feats of ingenuity. The opportunity for simplification is very encouraging, because in all examples that come to mind the simple and elegant systems tend to be easier and faster to design and get right, more efficient in execution, and much more reliable than the more contrived contraptions that have to be debugged into some degree of acceptability....Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.