Quotes About Hard work

When people are in a growth mindset, the stereotype doesn't disrupt their performance. The growth mindset takes the teeth out of the stereotype and makes people better able to fight back. They don't believe in permanent inferiority. And if they are behind—well, then they'll work harder and try to catch up.

I think intelligence is something you have to work for … it isn't just given to you….

There is no magic here. Mrs. Collins is no miracle worker. I do not walk on water, I do not part the sea. I just love children and work harder than a lot of people, and so will you.

Mrs. Collins, if we do not learn and work hard, we will take an Icarian flight to nowhere.

Was it Mozart's musical ability or the fact that he worked till his hands were deformed? Was

If you don't give anything, don't expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come to it.

título, en él argumenta que la creatividad no es un acto mágico de inspiración, sino el resultado de mucho trabajo y entrega, hasta para Mozart.

If you work hard at something, you get out what you put in.

Los que tenían mentalidad fija creían que: «Uno tiene que tener cierta habilidad para los deportes, y no puede hacer mucho para cambiar ese nivel realmente». «Para ser bueno en los deportes, debes tener un talento natural». Por el contrario, todos los que tenían mentalidad de crecimiento estaban de acuerdo en que: «La habilidad deportiva siempre mejora si se trabaja duro».

Everything I was going through boiled down to fear. Fear of trying and failing. . . . If you go to an audition and don't really try, if you're not really prepared, if you didn't work as hard as you could have and you don't win, you have an excuse. . . . Nothing is harder than saying, 'I gave it my all and it wasn't good enough.

People who receive disconfirming or otherwise unwelcome information often do not simply resist it; they may come to support their original (wrong) opinion even more strongly—a backfire effect. Once we are invested in a belief and have justified its wisdom, changing our minds is literally hard work. It's much easier to slot that new evidence into an existing framework and do the mental justification to keep it there than it is to change the framework.

We've worked very hard as a band and would like to think we've got this far on the strength of our music.

hard work never killed anyone... but why take a chance?

If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.

A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.

On the Wall, a man gets only what he earns,

It was hard work to rule a kingdom, much less seven of them.

A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation -- veneer isn't worth anything.

'Twas I that beat the bush,The bird to others flew.

The lucky fellow is the plucky fellow who has been burning midnight oil and taking defeat after defeat with a smile.

Business is full of brilliant men who started out with a spurt and lacked the stamina to finish. Their places were taken by patient and unshowy plodders who never knew when to quit.

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

It is with enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except with reiterated efforts, and often at the instant when we despaired of success.