Famous Quotes & Sayings

Murray Rothbard

Rule by the statist elite is not benign or simply a matter of who happens to be in office: it is rule by a growing army of leeches and parasites battening off the income and wealth of hard-working Americans, destroying their property, corrupting their customs and institutions, sneering at their religion.

Mohsin Hamid

I like the idea of an open, international London that thrives on attracting hard-working, talented people but has the confidence to tell them they must play by the same rules as everyone else.

Nancy Lieberman

There's no substitute for hard work. If you work hard and prepare yourself, you might get beat, but you'll never lose.

Ken Salazar

My family has spent 400 years farming on the banks of the Rio Grande. We know the value of hard work, love of the community, love for water and land.

Kathryn Schulz

Take away the ability of an intelligent, principled, hard-working mind to get it wrong, and you take away the whole thing.

Kim Harrison

You should be dead," he said, his voice full of wonder. "How is it that you're still alive?" Jaw clenched, I worked at his grip on me, trying to get my fingers between him and my wrist. "I work hard at it.

Mark Twain

You may say organize, organize, organize; but there may be so much organization that it will interfere with the work to be done.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Men play harder than they work; women work harder than they play.

Mary Baker Eddy

All successful individuals have become such by hard work; by improving moments before they pass into hours, and hours that other people may occupy in the pursuit of pleasure.

Mark Morris

I have a fabulous life. It is interesting and rigorous. I work hard. So leave me alone. Watch my dust. Shut up.

Mark Messier

My jersey hanging from the ceiling is going to be a symbol of the hard work of the people I played with.

Mark McKinnon

Debates require a lot of hard work and preparation. If you try to wing it, it shows.

Mario Vargas Llosa

A good novel is a conjunction of many factors, the main of which is without a doubt, hard work.

Nikki Haley

Unfortunately, these past few years, you can work hard, try to be as successful as possible, follow the rules, and President Barack Obama will do everything he can to stand in your way.

Nicola Cornick

I find writing really hard, but then, every author I know finds writing really hard work.

Mary Lou Retton

I like added pressure. It makes me work harder.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being, to be personally concerned about your family's income, to be personally concerned about your future. This is hard work.

Marian Wright Edelman

Don't be afraid of hard work.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Without hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the primitive forces of social stagnation. So we must help time and realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I cannot forget that the Nobel Prize for Peace was also a commission - a commission to work harder than I had ever worked before for "the brotherhood of man".

Mithun Chakraborty

I like Hrithik Roshan and Shahid Kapoor. They are amazing and very hard working when it comes to dance.

Miuccia Prada

The only way to do something in depth is to work hard.

Mitt Romney

President Obama trusts in the wisdom of government. I put my trust in the ingenuity and creativity and commitment to hard work of the American people.

Priyanka Chopra

I am just a hard-working 23-year-old. When Maxim asked me to be on their cover, I was quite surprised. Of course, I was happy about it.

Prabal Gurung

I'm not a believer of luck. I think opportunity and hard work becomes luck.

Judd Apatow

I remember before I did my HBO special, Chris [Rock] screamed at me - in a loving way, but still. He was like, "You need to do 200 shows in a row and a month straight on the road before you even think about recording a special!" And I had literally booked two weeks on the road and then went right into the recording. It put me in a panic, but it also made me work harder and made me realize that everyone works differently, and that's okay.

Leonardo DiCaprio

I like to prepare as much as possible beforehand, but there's definitely that element of fear when you're on set, and you have to be conscious of it and use that fear to drive you to work harder.

Leven Rambin

A lot of hard work has to go into your career, and preparation, and being your best at all times.

Lee Westwood

Yes, a Major would mean so much to me but I'm a great believer that if you work hard and in the right way, you will get what you deserve.

Larry Page

Technology should do the hard work so people can do the things that make them the happiest in life.

Larry Page

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting

Larry Wall

The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.

Lakshmi Mittal

Hard work certainly goes a long way. These days a lot of people work hard, so you have to make sure you work even harder and really dedicate yourself to what you are doing and setting out to achieve.