Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Chrysler

To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.

Virginia Woolf

What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work.

Samuel Smiles

Genius, without work, is certainly a dumb oracle, and it is unquestionably true that the men of the highest genius have invariably been found to be amongst the most plodding, hard-working, and intent men -- their chief characteristic apparently consisting simply in their power of laboring more intensely and effectively than others.

Samuel Larsen

One of the biggest things I learned was that it's OK to be nervous and admit that you're having a hard time.

Samuel J. Palmisano

Enterprise is hard work. You have to integrate the client with the optimized systems of all the servers and software.

Sally Ride

You can picture pretty easily if there were a paying passenger aboard a rocket that failed, like Challenger failed. Certainly it would be a tragedy, and a tragedy for the company. They would have a hard time recovering from it.

Salma Hayek

I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence.

Ryan Seacrest

And I think more than anything else, I know when I go to bed that no one's working harder doing what I'm doing, and I think, quite frankly, simply that hard work at some point was gonna pay off.

Ryan Reynolds

I have a discipline that has served me very well in my career and in my personal life... and that's gotten stronger as I've gotten older. I've always felt if I don't just have a natural knack for it, I will just out-discipline the competition if I have to -- work harder than anybody else.

Wanda Sykes

I work hard. The staff and crew see how much energy I put into this project, and it makes them step up.

W. S. Merwin

I'm very pessimistic about the future of the human species. We have been so indifferent to life on the whole that it will take its toll. It's not just the polar bears that are having a hard time; what we're doing is gradually impoverishing and poisoning the whole of the rest of life.

Vinny Guadagnino

Nobody wants to be a lawyer - it's hard work. But it was kind of my academic route.

Wayne Huizenga

Overcoming hardships and working around and through their obstacles to achieve an education is what I call a true success.

Wayne Coyne

I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.

Wayne Dyer

I didn't work hard for success. I worked hard because that's what is in me. I showed up in this world somehow knowing that you have to work hard. You can't just have a thought. You have to follow the thought through.

Van Jones

When it gets harder to love, love harder.

Twyla Tharp

You may wonder which came first: the skill or the hard work. But that's a moot point. The Zen master cleans his own studio. So should you.

Stephen Colbert

Republicans will need to work hard to capture the Latino vote instead of their current strategy of capturing Latinos.

Sonia Sotomayor

You make your life choices understanding that you might and do have to work harder to prove yourself.

Tim Tebow

I don't try to focus on anything that doesn't affect me personally and how I go out there every single day. I'm just going to continue to work hard and focus on what I can control.

Tim Bishop

Meanwhile, hard-working Americans are increasingly faced with workplace conditions in which critically important safeguards are watered down, emerging problems are ignored, and enforcement is scaled back.

Tim Cook

Those who try to achieve success without hard work ultimately deceive themselves-or worse-deceive others.

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?

Gretchen Mol

It's hard to know really how it's going to happen, but the career ebbs and flows and now there's a nicer feeling of interest than there has been at other times.

Greta Garbo

I always wanted to do my best. I got nothing free—I had to work hard.

Most men have worried about things which never happened, and more men have been killed by worry than by hard work.

Georges St-Pierre

Innovation is a discipline not a lottery... It comes from the combination of two elements within my control: hard work and openmindedness.

Henry David Thoreau

We are often struck by the force and precision of style to which hard-working men, unpracticed in writing, easily attain when required to make the effort. As if plainness and vigor and sincerity, the ornaments of style, were better learned on the farm and in the workshop than in the schools. The sentences written by such rude hands are nervous and tough, like hardened thongs, the sinews of the deer, or the roots of the pine.

Henry David Thoreau

I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. All great enterprises are self-supporting. The poet, for instance, must sustain his body by his poetry, as a steam planing-mill feeds its boilers with the shavings it makes. You must get your living by loving.

Jessica Marais

I'm looking forward to playing the meatier roles you get in your 30s. The early 20s can be a hard time for an actress - it's always bombshell or romantic lead. The good stuff you can really sink your teeth into comes later.

Jeremy Bonderman

Now I know that I don't have to go after every batter with the hardest pitch I've got.