Hard Quotes - Page 44

A man with a silver spoon may get his share of supporters, but he can never be an inspiration for somebody! Patience and hard work are the key to every man's success.

Don't think that you can make up for it by working twice as hard tomorrow. If you have it within your power to work twice as hard, why aren't you doing it now?

No, but I've always felt that with true talent, and a commitment to hard work, it is possible to achieve an enduring respect and appreciation. In other words, I don't take my fans for granted.

Beating the drums for Hawaii is not hard to do... the place just grows on you.

The great ones in life are not those who are handed silver spoons. Their excellence comes from digging into the raw ore of their own character, through hard work, persistence and faith turning whatever they touch into gold.

Good work is no done by "humble" men. It is one of the first duties of a professor, for example, in any subject, to exaggerate a little both the importance of his subject and his own importance in it. A man who is always asking "Is what I do worth while?" and "Am I the right person to do it?" will always be ineffective himself and a discouragement to others. He must shut his eyes a little and think a little more of his subject and himself than they deserve. This is not too difficult: it is harder not to make his subject and himself ridiculous by shutting his eyes too tightly.

Selling is the easiest job in the world if you work it hard-but the hardest job in the world if you try to work it easy.

The hardest part is developing the idea, and that can take years

My faith in the expertise of physicists like Richard Feynman, for instance, permits me to endorse—and, if it comes to it, bet heavily on the truth of—a proposition that I don't understand. So far, my faith is not unlike religious faith, but I am not in the slightest bit motivated to go to my death rather than recant the formulas of physics. Watch: E doesn't equal mc2, it doesn't, it doesn't! I was lying, so there!

Hard work, honesty, if you keep at it, will get you almost anything.

...I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work; and I still think there is an eminently important difference.

That's what makes death so hard--unsatisfied curiosity

My mission is to raise incomes for hard working middle class families. If you work hard and do your part you should be able to get ahead and stay ahead.

Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.

Practice is a talent. Perseverance is a talent. Hard work is a talent.

Movie acting may not have a certain kind of glory as true art, but it is damn hard work.

No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.

I want my kids to have a good work ethic. I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.

When you wanna rock hard, children, lean on F#.

This thing we call luck is merely professionalism and attention to detail, it's your awareness of everything that is going on around you, it's how well you know and understand your airplane and your own limitations. Luck is the sum total of your of abilities as an aviator. If you think your luck is running low, you'd better get busy and make some more. Work harder. Pay more attention. Do better preflights.

Problems are messages.

I'm a hard workin' man, have been for many long years.

It is hard to resist a flatterer who gets it right.

If you are not willing to work hard and establish discipline in your life, then all your dreams are merely pipe dreams.

You can work hard, do everything that you think is right, but one thing you'll never overcome in life is fate. You can't control fate.