Hard Quotes - Page 25

There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.

If you work hard the fight's easy. If you don't work hard then the fight's hard.

You must respect people and work hard to be in shape. And I used to train very hard. When the others players went to the beach after training, I was there kicking the ball.

I am grateful for all my victories, but I am especially grateful for my losses, because they only made me work harder.

The harder I prepare, the luckier I seem to get.

It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.

Luck? Luck is hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

If you spend too much time learning the 'tricks' of the trade, you may not learn the trade. There are no shortcuts. If you're working on finding a short cut, the easy way, you're not working hard enough on the fundamentals. You may get away with it for a spell, but there is no substitute for the basics. And the first basic is good, old fashioned hard work.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

There will always be people who challenge the idea that you belong, but it's important to work hard, to focus on yourself, and prove that you belong in this space of high-level athletics.

As soon as you hear a fighter say, "I'm working smarter, not harder," you always want to bet against that guy. That mentality does not work. You have to work hard. And sometimes that means you are going to work too hard. You are going to decline. You are going to tear down your body and your muscle fibers. You are going to get sick.

I didn't get out of coaching to get back into it. This is my next challenge and I'm planning to work hard at it.

One of the greatest benefits of our salvation has to be that of hearing God speak to us personally. There can be no intimate relationship with our heavenly Father without it. But, as easy as it is for us to speak to Him, the average Christian has a hard time hearing His voice. This is not the way the Lord intended it to be.

Hard work will always overcome natural talent when natural talent does not work hard enough.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.

I'm the type of person that likes to give people a hard time, and I enjoy doing little pranks. If I see someone getting a little aroused I have to keep pushing that button.

I've always thought of myself as a woman who works hard, believes in herself, and wants to accomplish as much as possible.

I have never compared myself to anyone, but it's hard to resist him!!

I understand how difficult it can be for an African-American in today’s society. In fact, I can relate to black people very well indeed. My ancestors once owned slaves, and it is in my lineage to work closely with the black community. However, just because they were freed over a century ago doesn’t mean they can now be freeloaders. They need to be told to work hard, and the incentives just aren’t there for them anymore. When I’m president I plan to work closely with the black community to bring a sense of pride and work ethic back into view for them.

Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination, a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly all the grandest discoveries of science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results.

You have to live hardcore to be hardcore.

It's hard to play well, but it's easy to work hard.

I've had enough of being a gay icon! I've had enough of all this hard work, because, since I came out, I keep getting all these parts, and my career's taken off. I want a quiet life. I'm going back into the closet. But I can't get back into the closet, because it's absolutely jam-packed full of other actors.

Three things are needed for success in painting and sculpture: to see beauty when young and accustom oneself to it, to work hard, and to obtain good advice.