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Quotes About Hard work

Non ci sono segreti per riuscire. Solo il talento e il lavoro. E cuore...
~ Olivier Föllmi
The big secret in life is there is no secret. Whatever your goal. You can get there if you're willing to work.
~ Oprah Winfrey
But what happens when you work hard at something unfulfilling? It drains your spirit. It robs you of your life force. You end up depleted, depressed and angry.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Sou uma perfeccionista desde os 3 anos. Durante muito tempo, tive a necessidade de mostrar que eu merecia estar aqui – de provar o meu valor. Trabalhei duro. Tirei muitas notas máximas. Venci debates escolares, ganhei bolsas de estudo. Mas precisei chegar aos 30 e poucos anos para saber que o simples fato de ter nascido já me tornava digna de estar aqui. Eu não precisava provar nada a ninguém.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Wisdom will not open her doors to those who are not willing to pay the price in self-sacrifice, in hard work. Her jewels are too precious to scatter before the idle, the ambitionless.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Laziness begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Fortune always smiles on those who roll up their sleeves and put their shoulders to the wheel.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Luck is waiting for something to turn up; labor, with keen eye and strong will, will turn something up. Luck lies in bed and wishes the postman would bring him news of a legacy; labor turns out at six o'clock, and, with busy pen or ringing hammer, lays a foundation for a competence. Luck whines; labor whistles. Luck relies on charms; labor depends on character. Luck slips down to indigence; labor strides upward to independence.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Remember that it is only through your work that you can grow to your full height.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Read or Starve. Show me a man who has made fifty thousand dollars, and I will show you in that man an equivalent of energy, attention to detail, trustworthiness, punctuality, professional knowledge, good address, common sense, and other marketable qualities.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Like running the hurdles. Work so hard, jump over every one, fast, high enough but no higher, because you can't afford to hang in the air. And then, when the race is over, you're dripping with sweat, either they beat you or you beat them ... and then a couple of guys come out and move the hurdles out of the way. Turns out they were nothing. All that work to jump over them, but now they're gone.
~ Orson Scott Card
I have always been of opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.
~ Oscar Wilde
I was not born with wisdom. I love the ancient teachings and have worked hard to attain to their level.
~ Confucius
Nothing worth while comes easy. Hard work just makes you appreciate it more.
~ Constance O'Day-Flannery
You said that mathematics was mostly about hard work. But I'm still not sure how you go about it. Yes. The first thing you do it take off your shoes and socks. To have parallel access to base ten.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Everyone wants a definition of creativity that makes what they do into something special and what everyone else does into nothing special. But the fact is, we're all creative. We come up with weird and interesting ideas all the time. The biggest difference between 'creators' isn't their imagination - it's how hard they work. Ideas are easy. Doing stuff is hard.
~ Cory Doctorow
That's what makes poor people poor...They're looking to find treasures instead of working and saving every day.
~ Walter Dean Myers
Franklin and his petition were roundly denounced by the defenders of slavery, most notably Congressman James Jackson of Georgia, who declared on the House floor that the Bible had sanctioned slavery and, without it, there would be no one to do the hard and hot work on plantations.
~ Walter Isaacson
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication," Jobs had aimed for the simplicity that comes from conquering complexities, not ignoring them. "It takes a lot of hard work," he said, "to make something simple, to truly understand the underlying challenges and come up with elegant solutions.
~ Walter Isaacson
Industry and frugality," he wrote in describing the theme of Poor Richard's almanacs, are "the means of procuring wealth and thereby securing virtue.
~ Walter Isaacson
slow and steady diligence is the true way to wealth.
~ Walter Isaacson
Thomas Edison said, "Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
Repetition. Effort. Pain. Success. There really is no shortcut.
~ Wendelin Van Draanen
A popular management term used to describe efficiency is called "working smart." We are told that if we work smart instead of hard, we will be more productive. But if we do work "smart" then we are likely to have idle time, and if we are idle we will likely be thought of as being lazy or worthless.
~ Charles Hayes