Quotes About Hard work

To quote the exceptional teacher Marva Collins, "I will is more important than IQ." It is wonderful to have a terrific mind, but it's been my experience that having outstanding intelligence is a very small part of the total package that leads to success and happiness. Discipline, hard work, perserverance, and generosity of spirit are, in the final analysis, far more important.

Unfortunately working hard doesn't necessarily make someone an effective teacher.

To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.

If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hardbeaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

Hard work guarantees you nothing. But laziness assures

Hard work guarantees you nothing. But laziness assures failure. Work hard, or you have only yourself to blame.

Work hard, work passionately, but apply your most precious asset—time—to what is most meaningful to you.

And it hurts as a player, that you put a lot of hard work in during the week, and at the end of the week, Sunday, when you get on the field, that's when they acknowledge about the hard work that you put in throughout the week. That's actually a disappointment.

My coach knew there was only one way to develop (self esteem): You give children something they can't do, they work hard until they find they can do it, and you just keep repeating the process.

As I see it, if you work more hours than somebody else, during those hours you learn more about your craft. That can make you more efficient, more able, even happier. Hard work is like compounded interest in the bank. The rewards build faster.

El trabajo duro es como el interés compuesto de los bancos. La recompensa se acumula más rápido.

As I see it, if you work more hours than somebody else, during those hours you learn more about your craft. That can make you more efficient, more able, even happier. Hard work is like compounded interest in the bank. The rewards build faster. The same is true in your life outside of your job.

Tenacity is a virtue, but it's not always crucial for everyone to observe how hard you work at something.

When we send our kids to play organized sports—football, soccer, swimming, whatever—for most of us, it's not because we're desperate for them to learn the intricacies of the sport. What we really want them to learn is far more important: teamwork, perseverance, sportsmanship, the value of hard work, an ability to deal with adversity. This kind of indirect learning is what some of us like to call a "head fake." There

Shame on these civil services officers who study hard to crack the toughest exam of India, but then work like a spineless stooge to serve rogue politicians.

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

Luck is the dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

A little bit of luck helps, yes, but the key element, which too many in our affluent society have forgotten, is still hard work—grinding it out. Ray

People have marveled at the fact that I didn't start McDonald's until I was fifty-two years old, and then I became a success overnight. But I was just like a lot of show business personalities who work away quietly at their craft for years, and then, suddenly, they get the right break and make it big. I was an overnight success all right, but thirty years is a long, long night. I

There are things money can't buy and hard work can't win. One of them is happiness.

The fact that she had no bookkeeping experience bothered me not at all. I knew she would master the technical routines quickly. So I told her I couldn't pay much, but if she was willing to work hard anyhow, I could promise her a bright future. We talked the same language. She did work hard—unbelievably hard—and in less than twenty years she was one of the top women executives in the country, secretary and treasurer of McDonald's Corporation. June