Quotes About Hard work

I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have some ability. The sky is the limit to what you can build, and what can happen to you and your family.

Getting old is scary business. Seems to me when a body has worked hard all his life and never earned nothing extra to put away, there ought to be some way to make his last days peaceful. I'll tell you, I don't want to live off my kids, and I sure don't want to live in some old folks home on charity. Best way, I reckon, is not to think about it, but that ain't my way of doing things.

Occupation is the scythe of time.

When you really have the preparation time and things start taking the shape that they need, you have a beautiful feeling that comes from the hard work.

My dad told me this: You get out of it what you put into it. If you put in effort and log your time, you'll get the results.

Not everyone who works hard makes their dream come true. You need luck and hard work and being in the right place at the right time but I still very much believe it's possible.

If a farmer and his family can get up at 5:30 every morning to milk cows, surly we can get up at that time to practice basketball.

Over time, quality work will lead to an audience for your work.

Determination. You have to be willing to put in the extra time and the extra practice to be the best.

I worked a long time to get good at what I'm doing, and nobody handed me a recording contract because of who my father is.

For a long time the IOC liked the idea of money but they didn't like the thought of working for it.

Overnight success just doesn't happen. You've got to put your time in. You're up and down - all of a sudden, it just clicks

I had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.

The truth is, time travel is hard, and people are lazy.

as you know, here at Randolph Media we reward hard work." Lisa twinkled prettily at the patent lie. Like many companies in the Western world, Randolph Media rewarded hard work with poor pay, increasing workloads, demotions and on-a-second's redundancies.

Don't feel entitled to anything you don't sweat and struggle for

Her emergence from that institution and rebirth as an effective and innovative mental health worker is not simply a miracle. Her dedication to self-healing, her persistent attempts at creating a helpful environment, and her willingness to receiver support from those around her, reveal her recovery as the outcome of careful and courageous self-examination and hard work. (xii)

there's no pleasure in work if you don't break a sweat. Out in the fields you feel any little breeze. You know it's coming, you hear it in the trees, you almost can't wait for it, and then there it is, like a cold drink of water.

Raw brilliance needs long years of hard work to develop properly.

Enthusiasm and hard work are also indispensable ingredients of achievement.

All these women have been up since way before dawn, many of them out on the water for hours, hauling in fish, loading them into their little round basket boats, unloading on shore. Yet no one looks tired. No one looks beaten down or defeated by their work.

Only an atmosphere of quiet hard work and dull, serious conversation were appropriate to him.

His story wasn't "I'll never read," it was "I have dyslexia, so I have to work harder to make everything happen—and I will.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it." —Henry Ford