Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fulton J. Sheen

Men work harder and more readily when they labor on that which is their own.

Christine O'Donnell

It is those same so-called experts who said we had no chance of winning the primary. It will be hard work, but we can win. And if those same people who fought against me work just as hard for me, we will win.

Christina Romer

Most arguments for instituting or raising a minimum wage are based on fairness and redistribution. Even if workers are getting a competitive wage, many of us are deeply disturbed that some hard-working families still have very little.

Christina Milian

I am also a hard worker and people are sometimes surprised to see that as well.

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.

Georges St-Pierre

Innovation is a discipline not a lottery... It comes from the combination of two elements within my control: hard work and openmindedness.

Henry David Thoreau

We are often struck by the force and precision of style to which hard-working men, unpracticed in writing, easily attain when required to make the effort. As if plainness and vigor and sincerity, the ornaments of style, were better learned on the farm and in the workshop than in the schools. The sentences written by such rude hands are nervous and tough, like hardened thongs, the sinews of the deer, or the roots of the pine.

Henry David Thoreau

I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. All great enterprises are self-supporting. The poet, for instance, must sustain his body by his poetry, as a steam planing-mill feeds its boilers with the shavings it makes. You must get your living by loving.

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.

Jeff Garcia

When you think about your heritage, you think about toughness and hard work.

Jeff Goldblum

People work harder when conditions are worse.

Gucci Mane

When all my hard work is getting recognized. It makes me work even harder.

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.

Ian Rankin

You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're going to be a critical success. But not everyone who works hard gets it right, or has the success they deserve: there's an element of luck.

Iain Duncan Smith

We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.

Iain Duncan Smith

Balance is if you try hard, you work hard then the rewards are in balance with what you put in and what is available.

Iain Duncan Smith

Luck is great, but most of life is 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.

Gina McCarthy

I definitely challenge people. But hopefully, I am working harder than anybody else, and so people won't resent the fact that I want them to work hard, as well.

Jamais Cascio

Futures thinking is hard work. Fortunately, you do get better at it with practice. It's worth the effort.

Jacques Barzun

To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one’s scapegoats.

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.

Jeremy Piven

People need to know you have to walk through that rejection, and it's only going to fuel you. If you can somehow look at it like it's a gift, you're just going to regroup, and work harder, and go deeper. So just embrace it.

Glen Mazzara

It's better to grow your employees, steer them into a place that they can learn and succeed, and want to work hard and be loyal, than to have a revolving door of employees. That's demoralizing.

Glenn Beck

But are we even capable of maintaining a Republic anymore? Are there enough citizens willing to do the hard work that self-rule requires, or have we become a people who would rather be cared for, fed, clothed, housed, and told what's best for us by a parentlike state? Unfortunately, the evidence suggests the latter.

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.

Work hard, use your common sense and don't be afraid to trust your instincts.

Jessica Capshaw

I've always had to work hard for what I've got and to stay where I was.