473 quotes
There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.
Cesar Chavez
Activist · American · 1927 – 1993
Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Author · American · 1867 – 1957
Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
Harold Washington
Politician · American · 1922 – 1987
Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that's the hard work.
Sarah Zettel
Author · American · b. 1966
If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.
Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain.
Billy Graham
Clergyman · American · b. 1918
Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.
Ben Hecht
Writer · American · 1894 – 1964
Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time.
Remy de Gourmont
Novelist · French · 1858 – 1915
However, the occasional visit of success provides just the excitement an engineer needs to face work the following day.
Koichi Tanaka
Scientist · Japanese · b. 1959
Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
Pliny the Elder
Author · Roman
Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.
Ed Bradley
Journalist · American · b. 1941
I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.
Charles Evans Hughes
Judge · American · 1862 – 1948
Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.
Dean Kamen
Inventor · American · b. 1951
Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish.
Brad Henry
Politician · American · b. 1963
Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.
Paul J. Meyer
Businessman · American
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
Margaret Mead
Scientist · American · 1901 – 1978
I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.
Margaret Thatcher
Leader · English · b. 1925
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
John Ruskin
Writer · English · 1819 – 1900
It was from them that I learned that hard work in stable surroundings could yield rewards, even if only in infinitesimally small increments.
Sidney Altman
Scientist · Canadian · b. 1939
Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
E. B. White
Writer · American · 1899 – 1985
There was no one around me who didn't work hard.
Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.
James A. Baldwin
Author · American · 1924 – 1987
Alas few socialists are either benevolent enough to work hard at these occupations out of benevolence or self-interested enough to work hard at them for money.
John McCarthy
Politician · American
If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Jim Rohn
The productivity of a work group seems to depend on how the group members see their own goals in relation to the goals of the organization.
Ken Blanchard
Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
J. Paul Getty
Businessman · American · 1892 – 1976
Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.
Lewis Thomas
Scientist · English · 1913 – 1993
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
Don Marquis
Poet · American · 1878 – 1937
Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.
Donald Rumsfeld
Politician · American · b. 1932
Writing is hard work; it's also the best job I've ever had.
Raymond E. Feist
Author · American
It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.
Bryant H. McGill
Poet · American · b. 1969
In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.
Wendell Willkie
Lawyer · American · 1892 – 1944
But effective regulation at the European Union level can make a massive contribution to achieving our shared goals of improving competitiveness, jobs and growth.
John Hutton
Educator · English · b. 1965
Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
M. H. Abrams
Critic · b. 1912
What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Thomas A. Edison
Inventor · American · 1847 – 1931
As Mayor of San Francisco, I will work hard to ensure that, in the event of natural or man-made disasters, San Franciscans are prepared and our City is protected.
Gavin Newsom
Politician · American · b. 1967
We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and our great challenge to fight the voices of division and seek the salve of reconciliation.
Roy Barnes
Politician · American · b. 1948
Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.
Jesse James Garrett
Iowa is home to teachers, farmers, lawyers, factory workers, and many others who work hard every day to provide the best for their families and their future.
Leonard Boswell
Politician · American · b. 1934
I will continue to work in Washington to oppose any efforts to expand drilling off our Coasts and to challenge my colleagues to adopt responsible energy policies.
Lois Capps
Politician · American · b. 1938
It was a very difficult 10 years of very hard work.
Jeffrey Skilling
Criminal · American · b. 1953
The German people were not denied, however, the possibility of improving their lot by hard work over the years. Industrial growth and progress were not denied them.
James F. Byrnes
Politician · American · 1879 – 1972
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.
Barbara Kruger
Artist · American
The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed.
Niklaus Wirth
Scientist · Swiss · b. 1934
I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again tonight.
Maria Mitchell
Scientist · American · 1818 – 1889
As mayor of San Francisco, I will provide the vision and work hard to make San Francisco a beautiful, well-planned city with excellent housing and transportation options.
I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.
Galen Rowell
Photographer · American · 1940 – 2002