Hard Quotes - Page 31

Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.

All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.

Lasting goal achievement requires lots of time, hard work, sacrifice & dedication to a process that is maintained over years.

Remember, half the people you know are below average.

Let us hear what the Bible says and what we as Christians are called to hear together: By grace you have been saved.

It's not bringing in the new ideas that's so hard; it's getting rid of the old ones.

The return to solid values is always hard... Distress, panic, and hard times have marked our pathway in returning to solid values.

The trickle-down experiment that began in the Reagan years failed America's middle class. Sure, the rich are doing great. Giant corporations are doing great. Lobbyists are doing great. But we need an economy where everyone else who works hard gets a shot at doing great!

There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

Ive heard of nothing coming from nothing, but Ive never heard of absolutely nothing coming from hard work.

There are many things I want, and the only way I will get them is to keep my head down, listen to the right people and work hard

That’s what we were told—stand up for yourself. But that’s hard to do if you don’t know who you are.

I'm interested in that thing that happens where there's a breaking point for some people and not for others. You go through such hardship, things that are almost impossibly difficult, and there's no sign that it's going to get any better, and that's the point when people quit. But some don't.

Hard work leads to low returns. Insight and doing what we want lead to high returns.

It's easy to decide what you're going to do. The hard thing is deciding what you're not going to do.

The conclusion of intelligent design flows naturally from the data itself - not from sacred books or sectarian beliefs. Inferring that biochemical systems were designed by an intelligent agent is a humdrum process that requires no new principles of logic or science. It comes simply from the hard work that biochemistry has done over the past forty years, combined with consideration of the way in which we reach conclusions of design every day.

Theres 3 things you need to remember in boxing, work hard, work harder, and work hardest

Either you focus, or you hit something really hard.

This is what happens with a breakthrough. The first ones through the door often get bruised if not broken. Eventually, with a little political acumen and racial sensitivity and a lot of hard work, a smooth new place can emerge.

We must never despair; our situation has been compromising before, and it has changed for the better; so I trust it will again. If difficulties arise, we must put forth new exertion and proportion our efforts to the exigencies of the times.

I think as far as kids go, you just have to work hard. Work on your skills, keep focused.

We all want things to stay the same. Settle for living in misery because we are afraid of change, of things crumbling to ruins. Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

You see, this people [Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Jacob, etc.] simply believed that God existed in the situation they were faced with, and they trusted Him rather than themselves. The result? God said, "That pleases Me." They were men and women just like you and I, which is the most encouraging part of all. We don't find golden haloes, or perfect backgrounds, or sinless lives, we just find people. People who failed, who struggled, who doubted, who experienced hard times and low times in which their faith was eclipsed by doubt. But their lives were basically characterized by faith.

Character is the virtue of hard times.