Quotes About Hard work

And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that.

I think luck is a big part of people who are successful in L.A.

I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

Pennies do not come from heaven- they have to be earned here on earth.

There is no secret to a long marriage - it's hard work...It's serious business, and certainly not for cowards.

and she's a nurse. do you know how hard nursing school is? it's like medical school. so she's obviously smart.

I have far more confidence in the one man who works mentally and bodily at a matter than in the six who merely talk about it.

Fools wait for a lucky day, but everyday is a lucky day for an industrious man.

I don't believe in luck. Luck comes to men of action.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.

A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.

You work harder because everything is on the line. Your name, your honor, your family, your life. Those burger flippers might have a better life expectancy—but what kind of life is it anyway, you have to ask yourself.

this is how it's done, you pile one thing on top of the next and you keep it up and keep it up—sometimes the galleon sinks in a typhoon, you don't get your slab of granite that year—but you stick with it and eventually you end up with something sooo big.

Wealth that is stored up in gold is dead. It rots and stinks. True wealth is made every day by men getting up out of bed and going to work.

What do you mean by values?" "They were code words like honesty, hard work, self-reliance . . . myths, actually, to motivate the people to accept the natural inequities found in a market system.

Wealth that is stored up in gold is dead. It rots and stinks. True wealth is made every day by men getting up out of bed and going to work. By schoolchildren doing their lessons, improving their minds. Tell

Wealth that is stored up in gold is dead. It rots and stinks. True wealth is made every day by men getting up out of bed and going to work. By schoolchildren doing their lessons, improving their minds.

I wasn't gifted. Mom was wrong. I was just smart and I worked hard. I had fooled myself into thinking that was something important to the rest of the world. Other people were complicit in this ruse. Nobody had told me I was common.

I know a lot of famous people didn't do well at school, like James Brown; he dropped out in fifth grade to be an entertainer, I respect that... but that's not going to be me. I'm not going to be able to do anything but work as hard as possible all the time and compete with everyone I know all the time to make it.

There is no harder worker than a former government employee who has discovered the word incentive.

For the first time Alix began to understand long-distance flying. It was not courage, or resourcefulness, or ability that counted in this game, though they were necessary subsidiary qualities. It was the capacity to work efficiently at tiring, menial tasks upon the ground that made great flights a success.

You may be able to write a novel, you may not . You will never know until you have worked very hard indeed and written at least part of it. You will never really know until you have written the whole of it and submitted it for publication.

an Empire-less Britain would be just a 'cold and unimportant little island where we should all have to work very hard and live mainly on herring and potatoes'.