Hard Quotes - Page 18

The estate tax punishes years of hard work and robs families of part of their heritage by imposing a huge penalty on inheritance after death - a tax on money that has already been taxed.

More than illness or death, the American journalist fears standing alone against the whim of his owners or the prejudices of his audience. Deprive William Safire of the insignia of the New York Times, and he would have a hard time selling his truths to a weekly broadsheet in suburban Duluth.

"Half genius and half buffoon," Freeman Dyson ... wrote. ... [Richard] Feynman struck him as uproariously American-unbuttoned and burning with physical energy. It took him a while to realize how obsessively his new friend was tunneling into the very bedrock of modern science.

True heros are made of hard work and integrity.

It's disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships which are not decreed by Fate.

Go ahead, work hard and never be afraid to try something. Even if you don't make it, at least you can say you tried

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

The one thing I've learned in the last ten years is that successful artists don't get paid to write and sing songs, they get paid for the psychological roller coaster they're going to have to ride. That's the hard work.

I had a hard time going back to school after T2. I really didnt want to go to private school.

Getting in shape for this role, which is incredibly demanding, vocally, has been a lot of hard work, but I'm nailing it. I'm even kind of, at times, blowing my own mind, because I am even able to talk right now.

If you don't work very hard, it is extremely unlikely that you will be a good trader.

It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear - the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about.

You can't really discover the most interesting conflicts and problems in a subject until you've tried to write about them. At that point, one discovers discontinuities in the data, perhaps, or in one's own thinking; then the act of writing forces you to work harder to resolve these contradictions.

Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.

Work hard to achieve integrity in your work and your relationships with the people you work with.

I am no coward; but I am so strong, so hard to die.

If you have a dream, hold on to it, believe in it and never stop working hard to make it come true.

One of the hardest jobs in ministry is keeping your own relationship with God where it needs to be.

When you have a dream you have to work hard to achieve that dream. Your dreams when you are young can be the force that keeps you going.

People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.

Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.

You need to realise that, if you want to go on, you have to work hard. If you dwell too much on your past successes and say "well, I have won nine world titles and more than 100 races", you'd rather stay home. The sport, your rivals, the tyres, your motorcycle, everything changes so instead you need to work more to be stronger. If you don't, you're finished.

There is no need to suppose that human beings differ very much one from another; but it is true that the ones who come out on top are the ones who have been trained in the hardest school.