Quotes About Hard work

I use this as a paradigm for our whole attitude toward life, what you did was you worked very hard, you try to understand and try to direct these complicated, powerful forces and at the very end of the struggle you've made no progress at all. That upon discovering that, you've raised to a lofty moral height, and you've accepted your fate, and somehow went on.

They expected miracles, evidently, as if the Nazis could remold the world by magic. No, it was science and technology and that fabulous talent for hard work; the Germans never stopped applying themselves. And when they did a task, they did it right.

I suppose Relativism is cynical. It surely isn't idealistic. It's the result of being killed and injured and made poor and working hard for empty words.

It takes long practice, yes. You have to work. Did you think you could snap your fingers, and have it as a gift? What is worth having is worth working for.

You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does.

You have to work. Did you think you could snap your fingers, and have it as a gift? What is worth having is worth working for.

Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base. • JOHN RUSKIN

This was work, and it was hard, but they were equal to it, all of them.

It wasn't hard work. It was methodical. I'm good at methodical stuff, so I didn't mind. But other people do. They think it's a dirty job. I wondered if this was the reason Captain Skyler had brought me along, so no one else would have to do it. But I'm a scientist. I think it's exciting. Most of science is gathering a lot of fact and looking for patterns. And it's not a dirty job.

Shed sweat—not blood

Among all the tactics[to elevate their position in status hierarchies], industriousness proved to be the best predictor of past and anticipated income and promotions. Those who worked harder achieved higher levels of education and higher annual salaries, and they anticipated greater salaries and promotions than those who failed to work hard.

Politics look very simple to the outsider whether he is a businessman or a soldier – it is only when you get into it that all the angles and hard work become apparent. James Forrestal

Without the work, there is nothing.

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I wasn't born with any innate talent. I've never been naturally gifted at anything. I always had to work at it. The only way I knew how to succeed was to try harder than anyone else. Dogged persistence is what got me through life. But here was something I was half-decent at. Being able to run great distances was the one thing I could offer the world. Others might be faster, but I could go longer. My strongest quality is that I never give up.

Never, however, do I take shortcuts. There is not path of least resistance in my training. What I do equates to hard manual labor, disciplined grunt work. Once you permit yourself to compromise, you fail yourself. You might be able to fool some people, but you can never fool yourself. Your toughest critic is the one you face every morning in the mirror.

The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work.

It is easy to say they make being young look like hard work, but wasn't it always hard work, even if the medium of its difficultly was different? At least they are making a project of their lives, a measurable project that can be liked or commented upon.

Hard work makes for what I reckon you like in a man, but don't understand. As I look back over my life--an' let me say, young fellar, it's been a tough one--what I remember most an' feel best over are the hardest jobs I ever did, an' those that cost the most sweat an' blood. As

Money means a lot of respect. It means a lot of accomplishment and a lot of hard work.

If I can achieve success, then anyone can.

I like to take up difficult challenges and work hard towards achieving my goals.

The Loro Piana man is a very active one: he works hard, and when he has time off, being close to nature is important to him.

My mother was the greatest example to me of anyone I've ever known. She didn't have an easy life. I adored her. She worked hard all her life, and she was the one who set my values. She was quite an amazing woman, although she wasn't tough at all.