Quotes About Hard work

The thing that really stands out is that my parents taught me right from the start, if you want something in life, you need to work for it.

Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.

I'm a working man in my prime cleaning windows.

A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind.

By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.

It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.

Men can be a great deal of work for very little reward.

Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.

By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches.

No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.

I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given.

A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy, he has only to spray and his presence is there for years on rainy days.

Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in the practice. It does take work and it ain't easy - but man, the rewards!

The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.

We're all on different paths, but action is hard work and you must drive your own soul.

People respect you more if you just play and blow something out than if you take the easier road. That's how we think. You get more respect and people play harder for you. Just play till you blow it. Just play till it goes.

If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.

If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.

Have talent, work hard, get lucky!

I'd rather be romantic than jaded. At least I've had a love life. Even if the romance does seem unreal sometimes, in retrospect. All that hard work of falling into love and falling out of it again. None of it leaves any trace, not visibly.

A man must break his back to earn his day of leisure.

Prosperity is acquired by exertion, and there is no fruit for him who doth not exert himself: the fawns go not into the mouth of a sleeping lion.

No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.