Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sandy Duncan

Work hard, earn a great living, get whatever you want out of life, have all the stuff you want. But there should be a ceiling on it-enough is enough!

Vince Young

Hard work has paid off a whole lot.

Sally Ride

You can picture pretty easily if there were a paying passenger aboard a rocket that failed, like Challenger failed. Certainly it would be a tragedy, and a tragedy for the company. They would have a hard time recovering from it.

Ryan Reynolds

I have a discipline that has served me very well in my career and in my personal life... and that's gotten stronger as I've gotten older. I've always felt if I don't just have a natural knack for it, I will just out-discipline the competition if I have to -- work harder than anybody else.

Wanda Sykes

I work hard. The staff and crew see how much energy I put into this project, and it makes them step up.

Vinny Guadagnino

Nobody wants to be a lawyer - it's hard work. But it was kind of my academic route.

Wayne Dyer

I didn't work hard for success. I worked hard because that's what is in me. I showed up in this world somehow knowing that you have to work hard. You can't just have a thought. You have to follow the thought through.

Robert Johnson

I'm a hard workin' man, have been for many long years.

Sandra Bullock

I'm not a fan of reality shows, but I am a fan of people who use their brains and skills and hard work to outsmart people, not to steal someone's man or get drunk on TV.

Wil Wheaton

Be honest. Be kind. Be honorable. Work hard. And always be awesome.

Yanni

You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.

Wladimir Klitschko

Nobody is born as a champion. You have to earn it through hard work. Get started!

Will Rogers

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

Yvon Chouinard

Mastery... is to work toward simplicity; replace complex technology with knowledge, hard work, and skill.

Twyla Tharp

You may wonder which came first: the skill or the hard work. But that's a moot point. The Zen master cleans his own studio. So should you.

Walter Lippmann

In really hard times the rules of the game are altered. The inchoate mass begins to stir. It becomes potent, and when it strikes, it strikes with incredible emphasis. Those are the rare occasions when a national will emerges from the scattered, specialized, or indifferent blocs of voters who ordinarily elect the politicians. Those are for good or evil the great occasions in a nation's history.

Yogi Berra

The hardest thing is to get started, but the really hardest thing is to finish.

Trenton Lee Stewart

If you like to tell stories and compose sentences, and if you work hard at being good at these things, then you are a writer even if you haven't published anything.

Robert Gottlieb

Diana Vishneva is not only a magnificent dancer but a magnificent actress - no one works harder or understands more.

Robert Jordan

I have never known anyone else," Egwene said to him, "who will work so hard to avoid hard work, Matrim Cauthon.

William Hague

People work hard and save hard to own a car. They do not want to be told that they cannot drive it by a Deputy Prime Minister whose idea of a park and ride scheme is to park one Jaguar and drive away in another.

William Hague

There's only one growth strategy: work hard.

Walter Murch

Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level. If you didn't do the hard work, you wouldn't be standing there. On the other hand, people do a lot of hard work and don't get Oscars, so it's a mixture of glory and injustice at the same time.

Walter Payton

Work hard or don't work at all.

Yani Tseng

It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I too had to work hard, so as not to have to work hard any longer.

Willow Smith

If you don't work hard, then you aren't going to have the success that you want. But if you work hard and dig in, then you are going to have the success that you want.

Willie Nelson

I started learning my lessons in Abbot Texas, where I was born in 1933. My sister Bobbie and I were raised by our grandparents [...] We never had enough money, and Bobbie and I started working at an early age to help the family get by. That hard work included picking cotton. [...] Picking cotton is hard and painful work, and the most lasting lesson I learned in the fields was that I didn't want to spend my life picking cotton.

William Osler

Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience. Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education.

William Osler

Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints.

Zig Ziglar

Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.

Zoe Cassavetes

I work hard and support myself.

Zinedine Zidane

I reached this level by sheer dint of hard work, toiling away at scores of tricks and experiments. I used to play with the ball from dawn till dusk and just kept practising. If I wasn't playing matches, it was trying out one on one or two against two with a tennis ball. Then I used to try aiming at certain targets. That's the only way to learn. And if I missed the target, I kept trying until I scored