Famous Quotes & Sayings

Malcolm Gladwell

I think that persistence and stubbornness and hard work are probably, at the end of the day, more important than the willingness to take a risk.

Malachy McCourt

My purpose in life always has been to avoid work. And I hear these people saying, "I work hard and I pay my taxes." Well, you're an asshole.

Mahela Jayawardene

I was feeling pretty good out there in the middle when I went in, but it was one of those things - sometimes you get a really good ball. If it gets you out you just have to forget about it and make sure you do the hard work out there next time you get in.

Magic Johnson

I really want people to know that I've worked hard, very hard, to get to where I am today.. this didn't just happen overnight. I started in business over 25 years ago and have found a way to build on what I've learned through every partnership and opportunity.

Maika Monroe

I want to work hard, and when good roles come along I don't want to pass them up.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Hard labour to succeed in the world? Hard labour no, no, human constitution, human physiology, human intelligence is made of infinite creative potential of Natural Law and therefore no-one has to work hard for success.

Gavin Newsom

As Mayor of San Francisco, I will work hard to ensure that, in the event of natural or man-made disasters, San Franciscans are prepared and our City is protected

Gavin Rossdale

I always work hard to have a very close connection to the fans.

Gavin Rossdale

I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The works of Lavoisier and his associates operated upon many of us at that time like the Sun's rising after a night of moonshine: but Chemistry is now betrothed to the Mathematics, and is in consequence grown somewhat shy of her former admirers.

Jo Brand

It's got too much hard work slapping them and telling them to shut up.

Jo Brand

It's actually very hard when you're settled in one place to completely uproot yourself and go.

Jo Brand

I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to office-hugging, bone-idle types, to apathetic, disengaged automatons.

John C. Reilly

I come from a pretty working-class neighborhood in Chicago. Hard work was just expected of you. It wasn't some noble thing you did; it was a prerequisite. It's what a man did. You get up, you put on your boots, and you work hard. We've lost a lot of that, I'm afraid.

John C. Maxwell

Someone once defined hard work as the accumulation of the easy things you didn't do when you should have.

Colin Farrell

The last three years have been insane, you know, just insane,' he says of his rapid rise to stardom. 'I just stay at the same pace. There's madness in the world around me, sure. There's nothing I can do about that. I just work as hard as I can work and play as hard as I can play.

The kids worked hard and battled hard. When you look at the points in the conference, this is huge for us.

The linesman got it wrong. We would have been up 1-0 and very hard to beat.

The longer we wait to start all that work, the harder it gets.

The maintenance staff, nutrition services, transportation department, and AJJH staff worked hard to provide services and accommodate the students and staff of Harvey Brown.

All of them can shoot. They can all penetrate. They rebound well. .... It's just hard for us to match up.

Holly Black

The funny thing about good people—people like Daneca—is that they really honestly don’t get the impulse toward evil. They have an incredibly hard time reconciling with the idea that a person who makes them smile can still be capable of terrible things. Which is why, although she’s accusing me of being a murderer, she seems more annoyed than actually worried about getting murdered. Daneca seems to persist in a belief that if I would just listen and understand how bad my bad choices are, I’d stop making them.

Henry Ward Beecher

Victories are easy and cheap. The only victories worth anything are those achieved through hard work and dedication.

At first, it was hard to tell her personality, because of the jet lag. And she was sick.

At first, everyone was upset with (cover charges) and we had a little backlash. But now we hardly ever hear about it.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

As society has shifted from an agrarian to an urban structure, the joy and necessity of diligent, hard work have been neglected.

Mark Harmon

At Chicago Hope they have a technical staff that works real hard to make that O.R. as realistic as possible.

As well, short stories are hard to write.

As much as she tried encouraging the other kids, it was hard to stay up when she was hurting on the sidelines.

All options are on the table. We want to solve this issue diplomatically, and we're working hard to do so.

All my hard work paid off for three years of accomplishing practically nothing in sports.

Enrico Caruso

A big chest, a big mouth, 90 percent memory, 10 percent intelligence, lots of hard work, and something in the heart.

The more this (details of the swap) is delayed, the more the market will be pushed down. But the problem of (energy) rationing is also hitting us hard right now.