Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Lincoln

If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of a single year there could scarcely be one human being left alive--all would have perished by want of subsistence.

Abraham Lincoln

I am always for the man who wishes to work.

Abraham Lincoln

The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point.

Abraham Lincoln

The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for himself; then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This, say its advocates, is free labor-the just and generous, and prosperous system, which opens the way for all-gives hope to all, and energy, and progress, and improvement of condition to all.

Abraham Lincoln

And, inasmuch [as] most good things are produced by labour, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose labour has produced them. But it has so happened in all ages of the world, that some have laboured, and others have, without labour, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and should not continue. To [secure] to each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good government.

Abraham Lincoln

If you intend to go to work there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to work, you can not get along anywhere.

Amy Poehler

I like hard work and I don’t like pretending things are perfect.

Allen Iverson

I just wanted to set a good example. I wanted to do things that I hadn't done before. My whole thing was to just try to be professional. I think when you work hard, good things happen, so obviously, because we're going to the Finals.

Allen Iverson

When you work hard, good things happen

Abraham Lincoln

Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

Abraham Lincoln

Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is the true standard of value.

Abraham Lincoln

Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants, and honey-bees, provide food for winter; but just in the same way they did, when Solomon referred the sluggard to them as patterns of prudence. Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.

Albert Einstein

Thinking is hard work; that's why so few do it.

Albert Einstein

My internal and external life depend so much on the work of others that I must make an extreme effort to give as much as I receive.

Alfred P. Sloan

Work hard. There is no short cut.

Alex Ferguson

Hard work will always overcome natural talent when natural talent does not work hard enough.

Albert Pujols

You know your talent. You know if you work hard, your hard work is going to pay off one day.

Donald Barthelme

The self cannot be escaped, but it can be, with ingenuity and hard work, distracted.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Hope spurs humans everywhere to work harder to endure more now that the future may be better.

Dorothy Day

Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.

Don Shula

I have no magic formula. The only way I know to win is through hard work.

Dwayne Johnson

If you've ever been hungry then you'll never be full and I know what it's like to be hungry. When I was 13, I realized I could control my destiny through hard work. I had my hands and I was going to work my ass off, I was going to initiate and create some sort of change in my life.

Dwayne Johnson

I've learned over the years that when it comes to success, consistency is key. Consistent hard work that we may not like doing today, but for a payoff we'll love tomorrow. Earn it. Enjoy it.

Dev Patel

I'm not a Casanova in 'The Newsroom,' by the way - just another hard worker.

Debbie Reynolds

I never dreamt of being in the movies. I was from a very average, I would say, a rather poor family, so my big treat was to work hard all week - I mowed lawns and babysat and washed dishes and washed cars - to go to the movies.

Deborah Ann Woll

I was shy and a hard worker, so acting was a way to focus whatever nervous energy I was experiencing onto a goal.

Andre Agassi

Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work

Amandla Stenberg

If you work hard, it will pay off.

Anthony Powell

Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.

Chuck Feeney

I set out to work hard, not to get rich.

Allyson Felix

I try to think about my goals. I think about my competitors-I know they're working hard, and if they are, I have to work hard too. I have to be one step ahead of them.

Anne Sweeney

I think the must-have power qualities for a female or male power leader are really the ability to focus, to work hard, to be extremely goal oriented and to not let the noise and the nonsense interfere with your mission - what you really feel you want to do with your career and your life.