Hard Quotes - Page 27

When you're a kid, it's hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them.

No great achiever - even those who made it seem easy - ever succeeded without hard work.

I think the thing about that was I was always willing to work; I was not the fastest or biggest player but I was determined to be the best football player I could be on the football field and I think I was able to accomplish that through hard work.

I'm enthusiastic and ambitious, and I work hard.

People like to think the creative process is romantic. The artist drifts to sleep at night, to be awakened by the subliminal echoes of his or her next brilliant idea. The truth, for me at least, is that creativity is primarily the result of hard work and study.

Star Trek speaks to some basic human needs: that there is a tomorrow — it's not all going to be over with a big flash and a bomb; that the human race is improving; that we have things to be proud of as humans. No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids — human beings built them, because they're clever and they work hard. And Star Trek is about those things.

Absolute trust is something hard to achieve even in a family, and it is much harder to achieve on an international level.

You have to work from one point to go to another. So I admire work ethic, I think it should be reinforced through our neighborhoods, that everybody should work hard, practice makes perfect, you have to be diligent with what you want, you have to apply yourself, you have to motivate your self. You have to do for self by yourself, and then you can do things for other people. That's what I had to do, I had to do for self.

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.

The Harder you work, the easier it looks

You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.

That makes my nipples hard!

You are what you repeatedly do when things get hard.

You're not hardcore, unless you live hardcore

You know, you don't have to have money to be a successful businessperson. You don't need a college degree. You just need a lot of common sense backed up by a willingness to work hard.

Life is difficult no matter what, but hard work and perseverance make it a lot easier.

Hard work is good for the soul, and it keeps you from feeling sorry for yourself because you don’t have time.

One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness.

Men and Melons are hard to know.

Doing your best means never stop trying.

Great people do things before they're ready. They do things before they know they can do it. Doing what you're afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that - that is what life is. You might be really good. You might find out something about yourself that's really special and if you're not good, who cares? You tried something. Now you know something about yourself.

We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.

I say to my team all the time that this is how I grew up: Always thinking that, at any minute, I could be unemployed. You have to scramble. You have to work hard and get ahead of things.

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

You've got to realize that in any competition there is always a winner and loser. When it turns out that you're the loser on a given day, you can be a graceful loser, but it doesn't mean that you're a loser in the sense that you're willing to accept losses readily. Concede that on that day you weren't the best and that you were beaten in competition. But that should make you more dedicated and hard working. It's wrong to accept defeat as a loser. Be graceful about losing, but don't accept it.