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Quotes About Hard work

When I was 14, and for the next four years, I was lifting and hauling 10-gallon milk cans full of milk. That will put muscles on you even if you're not trying.
~ Harmon Killebrew
The fighters who give it all will be around for next year. Give it all you've got. Don't save anything.
~ George Foreman
We don't have entitlements as part of our family heritage. If you want nice things in life, if you want to get ahead, you have to earn it.
~ Brian France
I took my job for Nickelodeon very seriously, and back then, it wasn't certainly as big of a network as it is now, culturally, and people my age didn't know much about it. But I loved my time there. I really put everything I had into doing 'Guts,' and it actually taught me a lot about how to work really hard.
~ Mike O'Malley
My grandma was raised in Ghana, and she went back there to work, so she could earn money for my mum's education in Nigeria. It's where it all began, and that dedication to education is the only reason I'm here.
~ Wunmi Mosaku
In Hollywood, you still have wonderful actors, but it's so hard to work there. To work becomes a Kafka nightmare - it's the last communist country!
~ Gerard Depardieu
A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you're going to the gym, those are the sacrifices that you have to make if you want to be an NBA basketball player.
~ Jason Kidd
For me, it was a lot of hard work doing theater eight nights a week around the country, going from job to job.
~ Brian Baumgartner
'Smallville' was one of those things where we worked a lot of nights, and there were a lot of physical scenes. I was hurt a lot, but I loved it! The 'Revenge' cast was also one of the greatest, most gracious casts I've ever been a part of.
~ Justin Hartley
Anytime you can start the season off with a new organization and see all the work they put in - guys in the shop that I don't even know are working late nights.
~ Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
Growing up, I had no idea just how hard my dad worked to make it all work.
~ Natalya Neidhart
This book is about work, and nobody ever worked harder than these two, or at a higher standard, while connectiong with so many people for so long.
~ Nick Hornby
There were many days when [I] did not know where my next meal was coming from. But I was never afraid to work, I went where some men were digging a ditch ... [and] said I wanted to work. The boss looked at my good clothes and white hands and laughed to the others ... but he said, "All right. Spit on your hands. Get in the ditch." And I worked harder than anybody. At the end of the day I had $2
~ Nikola Tesla
I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labor, for I have devoted to it almost all of my waking hours.
~ Nikola Tesla
My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
~ Nora Ephron
There's no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.
~ Nora Roberts
Power should come from work, time, effort. Care," he added. "As the most important things do.
~ Nora Roberts
considerable effort and a great deal of
~ Nora Roberts
One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
z?u dac? dobitocul ?sta mic nu merita o scatoalc?. De fapt, merita tot ce i s-a întîmplat. Pentru c? s-a am?git s? cread? c? viitorul îi va aduce numai lucruri bune. Cu condiÅ£ia s? munceÅŸti din greu. S? înveÅ£i din greu. S? alergi din greu. Åži-atunci toate îÅ£i vor merge strun?, iar viaÅ£a ta va avea un sens.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
So: now a new year, a new beginning. I've vowed not to complain. I'm too good at it, and need to practice other skills. I've also vowed to work very hard...
~ Claire Messud
You get what you work for not what you wish for
~ Clinton Anderson
Hard work was a fundamental virtue, for hard work didn't allow time for marches or sit-ins. Elwood would not make a commotion of himself by messing with that movie-theater nonsense, she said. "You have made an agreement with Mr. Marconi to work in his store after school. If your boss can't depend on you, you won't be able to keep a job." Duty might protect him, as it had protected her.
~ Colson Whitehead
If you weren't a little dirty at the end of the day, you weren't much of a man.
~ Colson Whitehead