Hard Work Quotes

Focused, hard work is the real key to success.

Talent doesn't win. Hard work, determination, and character wins. If you root your talent and ability in those things, then you have a powerful combination.

You try and work hard and get better each week. I play the game with passion. I enjoy the game. It's a lot of fun when I'm out there. That's the way I play. For some reason, people like that.

If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock.

If readers must puzzle over unfamiliar or ambiguous words, you are making them work harder than they need to.

You really need to love something or someone in order to work hard enough to be very successful. You have to believe in something and have a certain optimism.

I'm lucky. Hard work is the key, but luck plays a part.

I try to encourage actors to work harder off screen because that's where you find things.

I believe in fate, I believe in hard work, and I feel like if I just keep marching, the path will kind of appear before me.

Because I came in second place, it makes me want to work harder

Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.

Hope spurs humans everywhere to work harder to endure more now that the future may be better.

Me and my team always work so hard outside that square circle.

If you want something hard enough, whether it be a material possession or just something in your life, if you work hard enough there is absolutely no reason why you can't obtain it.

I was tired of illustration. You'd work so hard on a commission and it would go in to a magazine, and you'd turn the page and it was gone.

I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. . . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.

In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close knit communities, and our faith in God , too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption .

Hard work never hurt anyone who hired someone else to do it.

Success Recipe: 2 cups faith, 2 cups love, 1 cup hard work, 1 cup persistence, 1 tbsp vision and a dash of swagger.

Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion, just thinking foolishly that you will be able to do what you want to do

Have confidence in your ability to do it right, and work hard to do the best possible job.

I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.

Be persistent. Understand the ways in which your hard work is going to be necessary to achieve the goals that you want.

Anxiety and conscience are a powerful pair of dynamos. Between them, they have ensured that I shall work hard, but they cannot ensure that one shall work at anything worthwhile.

My mom always told me that if you work hard, you can achieve anything. And it's true. It's one of the truest things ever.

I just want to work hard. I love that feeling.

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

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.

I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again tonight.

We love to talk about justice. It's the doing of justice that's hard...I believe it is work we are called to do

Both my parents were migrant workers who came to the U.K. in the Fifties to better themselves. The culture I grew up in was to work hard, save hard and to look after your family.

In a daydream sort of way, I think it would be pretty cool to direct a movie. But I have been on movie and TV sets and know it is hard work. I like directing it in my mind. It is easier.

The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people.

Hard work is the only way to go. Strive to be the best you can be and remember that when you try your best, you can't ask any more from yourself, and people can't ask any more from you.

Hard work and best efforts will not by themselves dig us out of the pit.

Laziness is contagious just like hard work is. I didn't give myself an opportunity to be lazy and I didn't surround myself with people who are lazy.

I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory.

I need to celebrate life because I'm in a good spot, I work hard, and I am happy with who I am and what I do for a living.

The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work

Being a woman is hard work.

Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players. I picked guys with less talent, but who were willing to work hard and had the desire to be great.

I was lucky. I grew up knowing that hard work and smart work has a greater impact on results than being passionate about something.

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.

From beginning to end I worried that Ang Lee wouldn't be satisfied with my work. So I worked as hard as I could to earn his trust, because you only get a chance like this once.

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

I am lazy, but for some reason, I am so paranoid that I end up working hard.

Excellence isn’t about working extra hard to do what you’re told. It’s about taking the initiative to do work you decide is worth doing.

I started with shoes, and with hard work and discipline, the business prospered. I moved to the department store business and again, things went well.