Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Moore

There's nothing inherently or patently wrong with anybody who does well, works hard, earns a living, betters themselves. I'm not against any of these things. It's about how you make that money, and then what you do with it.

Michael Moore

I think that there's something in the American psyche, it's almost this kind of right or privilege, this sense of entitlement, to resolve our conflicts with violence. There's an arrogance to that concept if you think about it. To actually have to sit down and talk, to listen, to compromise, that's hard work.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I've had to work hard all my life, and I will never, ever ask a fan or reader to pay for something I've rushed. It's not fair to them, and I will never give them anything except my absolute best.

Norman Finkelstein

I focus on my work. If I let myself get distracted by the insults and slanders I wouldn't get anything substantive done.

Noel Clarke

I'd always much rather be second choice on anything because it makes you work harder.

Nolan Bushnell

A lot of people think that success is luck and being in the right place at the right time. But I think if you’re willing to work harder than anybody else, you can create an awful lot of your own luck.

Nolan Bushnell

If you're willing to work harder than anybody else, you can create your own luck

Nolan Bushnell

I don't think people understand how much hard work innovation is. That it's not just getting an idea. You really have to cross your T's and dot your I's long before you ever start on the project. I don't think people perceive that about me. I work hard.

Noel Coward

Work hard, do the best you can, don't ever lose faith in yourself and take no notice of what other people say about you.

Neil Diamond

I like having a woman. I like having someone to come home to, to make all of the hard work feel worth it. I need someone with me. And I want someone.

Neil Diamond

I'm lucky. Hard work is the key, but luck plays a part.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

We live in the kind of society where, in almost all cases, hard work is rewarded.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I want to encourage people to not think in terms of gifts, but think in terms of, wow. You work hard to succeed at that, because that's exactly what I do.

John Steinbeck

A fallow field is a sin.

Theodore Roosevelt

Each man must work for himself, and unless he so works, no outside help can avail him.

Theodore Roosevelt

There are two things that I want you to make up your minds to: first, that you are going to have a good time as long as you live - I have no use for the sour-faced man - and next, that you are going to do something worthwhile, that you are going to work hard and do the things you set out to do.

Theodore Roosevelt

There never has been devised, and there never will be devised, any law which will enable a man to succeed save by the exercise of those qualities which have always been the prerequisites of success - the qualities of hard work, of keen intelligence, of unflinching will.

Theodore Roosevelt

Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.

Michael Faraday

It is on record that when a young aspirant asked Faraday the secret of his success as a scientific investigator, he replied, 'The secret is comprised in three words- Work, Finish, Publish.'

Michael Bloomberg

I do not think that anybody should get paid for lousy performance. I've said that for a long time. If you work hard and you do good, you get paid well.

Michael Bloomberg

After hard work, the biggest determinant is being in the right place at the right time.

The times I've been most successful have been the product of hard work and focus, but there's also been an ease and flow to it that's unmistakable.

Michael Hussey

Test cricket is bloody hard work, especially when you've got Sachin batting with what looks like a three metre wide bat.

Max Planck

The whole strenuous intellectual work of an industrious research worker would appear, after all, in vain and hopeless, if he were not occasionally through some striking facts to find that he had, at the end of all his criss-cross journeys, at last accomplished at least one step which was conclusively nearer the truth.

May Sarton

How much hope, expectation, and sheer hard work goes into the smallest success! There is no being sure of anything except that whatever has been created will change in time...

Mattie Stepanek

I think that someone is watching out for me, God, my guardian angel, I'm not sure who that is, but they really work hard.

Matt Hasselbeck

Reality is, you have to work harder the older you get.

Matt Holliday

I just go out every day and try to work hard.

Matt Holliday

I try to work hard. I try to set a good example. I don't look at it as though I've got to be a leader. I just try to behave the way I think I should behave. If that results in a leadership role, great.

Meek Mill

I work hard. I focus on myself and putting food on my dinner table before anything else. I don't worry about other artists. Worrying about the next person in a negative way is the wrong way to be.

Maxine Hong Kingston

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Max Weber

[In] the realm of science, ... what we have achieved will be obsolete in ten, twenty or fifty years. That is the fate, indeed, that is the very meaning of scientific work. ... Every scientific "fulfillment" raises new "questions" and cries out to be surpassed rendered obsolete. Everyone who wishes to serve science has to resign himself to this.

Matthew Rhys

I definitely want to go back to the theatre. It is hard work, it is repetitive, but it is intensely rewarding,