Famous Quotes & Sayings

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

I come from a very rough background, and I'm saying that if you work hard and dedicate yourself that you can make it, too.

George Wald

I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company. I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that when they have some question involving molecules, they can ask themselves, What would I do if I were that molecule? I tell them, Try to feel like a molecule; and if you work hard, who knows? Some day you may get to feel like a big molecule!

George McGovern

And above all, above all, honest work must be rewarded by a fair and just tax system. The tax system today does not reward hard work: it penalizes it. Inherited or invested wealth frequently multiplies itself while paying no taxes at all. But wages on the assembly line or in farming the land, these hard-earned dollars are taxed to the very last penny.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

... the more I learned, the more conscious did I become of the fact that I was ridiculous. So that for me my years of hard work at the university seem in the end to have existed for the sole purpose of demonstrating and proving to me, the more deeply engrossed I became in my studies, that I was an utterly absurd person

Chris Paul

Every now and then you're going to get beaten, but we work hard.

Chris Hoy

Training can be monotonous, and it is hard work, but you never lose sight of why you are doing it. Every single effort of every single session counts in the months and years leading up to a big event.

Hard workers are usually honest; industry lifts them above temptation.

Harrison Ford

Work hard and figure out how to be useful and don't try to imitate anybody else's success. Figure out how to do it for yourself with yourself.

Jack Nicholson

If you want your freedom, you have to be willing to work hard to exercise it.

Bill Cowher

I didn't get out of coaching to get back into it. This is my next challenge and I'm planning to work hard at it.

Jean de la Bruyere

Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.

Gilbert Arenas

If you take away the last few years, from my last year in Washington, and you think about my career, there was nothing but hard work. I was in the gym three or four times a day, working on my skills. If we lost a game, and I thought I played bad, I'm staying in the gym to keep shooting. That's what I did. That's what I was known for: I was a gym rat.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Men will work hard for money. They will work harder for other men. But men will work hardest of all when they are dedicated to a cause. Until willingness overflows obligation, men fight as conscripts rather than following the flag as patriots. Duty is never worthily performed until it is performed by one who would gladly do more if only he could.

Greta Garbo

I always wanted to do my best. I got nothing free—I had to work hard.

Most men have worried about things which never happened, and more men have been killed by worry than by hard work.

Jennifer Egan

There's something very strange about associating me with that prize. I had hoped for it in a more directed way as a journalist. Somehow as a journalist you know there are Pulitzers out there and you can work hard and get one. To win it for Fiction seems unbelievable.

Gerald Celente

Work harder, work longer, and earn less because the mafia needs your money.

Hope Solo

There are no shortcuts. If you feel good, you'll look good, you'll play good. Work hard every day. No matter what your strengths and weaknesses, there's no substitute for hard work.

Hrithik Roshan

Every once a week, I get up and feel that I cannot act any more. I just get very unsure of myself. But, once I give my first shot, I'm back on track. Insecurity isn't bad, it makes me work harder.

Jim Cramer

I wish it grew on trees, but it takes hard work to make money.

Jessica Savitch

For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.

Harry Stack Sullivan

If you do not feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is work - work the like of which I do not know.

Huey Long

Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy.

Howard Stern

When you hire me, you hire a nut who is going to work 24 hours a day for you and never, ever burn his audience.

Idries Shah

Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials.

Elton John

Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers.

Jerry Bruckheimer

You can't be afraid of hard work or long hours. Sacrifice is important.

Adrian Peterson

I dedicate myself and work hard in the weight room and treat every practice as if it were a game.

Adrian Beltre

I work hard on my defense. It's something I take pride in, but it's nothing that I want to brag about. It's part of my game.

Abraham Maslow

Plateau experiencing can be achieved, learned, earned by long hard work.... A transient glimpse is certainly possible in the peak experiences which may, after all, come sometimes to anyone. But, so to speak, to take up residence on the high plateau .... that is another matter altogether. That tends to be a lifelong effort.

David Eddings

Start early and work hard. A writer's apprenticeship usually involves writing a million words (which are then discarded) before he's almost ready to begin. That takes a while.

David Wilkerson

We humans can work hard for each other, and we should and we must work. But it is God, and only God, who heals.

David Ogilvy

Hard work never killed a man. Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work.