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Quotes About Hard work

Ambition is a path, not a destination, and it is essentially the same path for everybody. No matter what the goal is, the path leads through Pilgrim's Progress regions of motivation, hard work, persistence, stubbornness, and resilience under disappointment. Unconsidered, merely indulged, ambition becomes a vice; it can turn a man into a machine that knows nothing but how to run. Considered, it can be something else - pathway to the stars, maybe.
~ Wallace Stegner
And though creative writing as an intellectual exercise may be pursued with profit by anyone, writing as a profession is not a job for amateurs, dilettantes, part-time thinkers, 25-watt feelers, the lazy, the insensitive, or the imitative. It is for the creative, and creativity implies both talent and hard work.
~ Wallace Stegner
Winning squads emphasize fundamentals-pick and rolls,teamwork,and defense. They play with passion and they play hard. They move the ball, and when their players don't have it, they move well without the ball. They play with sagacity by exploiting mismatches. They gauge their opponents weaknesses and then attack them relentlessly.
~ Walt Frazier
Believe me, the man who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow, eats oftener a sweeter morsel, however coarse, than he who procures it by the labor of his brains.
~ Washington Irving
The artist is not born to a life of pleasure. He must not live idle; he has a hard work to perform, and one which often proves a cross to be borne.
~ Wassily Kandinsky
I drove hard on all cylinders, not realizing that being an entrepreneur means that everything you initiate, by default you must add to your maintenance list.
~ Wayne Cordeiro
The highest compliment that you can pay me is that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
~ Wayne Gretzky
Just because we are working hard does not mean we are making anything happen.
~ Wayne Muller
At twenty-one he had arrived in America a penniless bodybuilder, born in an obscure Austrian village, armed only with the immigrant's time-honored weapons of hope, ambition, and an almost supernatural belief in the great American dream. Now, through the traditional virtues of hard work, talent, charm, intelligence, positive mental attitude, and persistence, Arnold Schwarzenegger had become a household name.
~ Wendy Leigh
You can't really blame folks for thinking you might be disappointed," Henry replied. "You have to watch the Harmonicandy get all the glory. Under your own roof, no less! And after you'd worked so hard on your Bubbletastic ChocoRocket.
~ Wendy Mass
Don't just look at someone's success, but look at all the effort and hard work behind it.
~ Werley Nortreus
Ne regardez pas seulement le succès de quelqu'un, mais regardez tous les efforts et le travail acharné derrière.
~ Werley Nortreus
Pa jis gade siksè yon moun, men gade tout efò ak travay di ki dèyè li.
~ Werley Nortreus
Few have been able to steal what many will not be able to do by working.
~ Wesley D'Amico
Few have been able to steal what many will not be able to do while working.
~ Wesley D'Amico
For success there is no ladder or elevator, if you want to reach the top, you have to climb."
~ Wesley D'Amico
There's no way to have what I have without doing what I do.
~ Wesley D'Amico
success is the result of hard work that overcomes all forms of disappointment and moments of discouragement. Success is not achieved through complex strategies. It is achieved only through conscientiously carrying out the duties of your office and exercising the responsibilities of leadership—nothing else will prevail.
~ Wess Roberts
Be honest. Be kind. Be honorable. Work hard. And always be awesome.
~ Wil Wheaton
Changing one's mind about human nature is hard work, and changing one's mind for the worse about oneself is even harder.
~ Daniel Kahneman
It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they're the finished articles, the bee's knees, and it's not true.
~ Daniel Radcliffe
Grunt work is my main calling, but I like to be dead when I do it.
~ Daniel Woodrell
Money is only for those who deserved it.
~ Daniell Porsche
I negotiate the terms of my life every day and work hard to maintain an emotional status quo that I had to create from scratch.
~ Danielle Henderson