473 quotes
Follow what your head is telling you and work hard. That's the big secret.
Joel McHale
Comedian · American · b. 1971
Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.
Nadia Comaneci
Athlete · Romanian · b. 1961
Some of us just have to work harder to stay in the game.
Sanaa Lathan
Actress · American · b. 1971
It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.
Anthony Hopkins
Actor · Welsh · b. 1937
I'm enthusiastic and ambitious, and I work hard.
Jason Statham
Actor · British · b. 1972
Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.
Lauryn Hill
Musician · American · b. 1975
I'm lucky. Hard work is the key, but luck plays a part.
Neil Diamond
Musician · American · b. 1941
Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work.
Juliette Lewis
Actress · American · b. 1973
People work harder when conditions are worse.
Jeff Goldblum
Actor · American · b. 1952
Staying focused is hard work and staying married is even harder.
Crystal Gayle
Musician · American · b. 1951
Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
Sasha Cohen
Athlete · American · b. 1984
I work hard. I work 80-90 hours a week in part-time football.
Graham Roberts
Actor · English · 1929 – 2004
You can change my mind, but you gotta work harder at it.
Doris Roberts
Actress · American · b. 1930
Always work hard, be honest, and be proud of who you are.
Patricia Velasquez
Actress · b. 1971
Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
Vince Lombardi
Coach · American · 1913 – 1970
To be the best, I had to work harder than everyone else.
Jahangir Khan
Athlete · Pakistani · b. 1963
I prefer a quartet, it makes everyone work harder.
Adrian Belew
Musician · American · b. 1949
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Well, I realized finally that all of the hard work paid off.
David Naughton
Actor · American · b. 1951
Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.
When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people.
Kiana Tom
Model · American · b. 1965
If they respect the craft and what we're doing and they bring something to the table and they work hard, I don't care what you do as your side job or as your day job.
Anthony Anderson
Actor · American · b. 1970
Practice, work hard, and give it everything you have.
Dizzy Dean
Athlete · American · 1910 – 1974
I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don't get very much approbation for it.
Joan Collins
Actress · American · b. 1933
You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
Alan Alda
Actor · American · b. 1936
Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'
Joey Adams
Comedian · American · 1911 – 1999
Whether you're on TV or on the stage, you have to work hard to stay fresh, real, and full of energy. You can't settle back. You always have to stay on your toes.
Blythe Danner
Actress · American · b. 1943
No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with.
Victoria Principal
Actress · American · b. 1946
I do know that I have to work hard for every single thing that I get, really hard, and that's okay.
Kyra Sedgwick
Actress · American · b. 1965
I'm not looking to set a standard... but, I believe I have offered a challenge to others with my work.
Talib Kweli
I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.
Aaliyah
Musician · American · 1979 – 2001
Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect.
Luther Campbell
Musician · American · b. 1960
Of course I work hard. Why shouldn't I? Who am I to think I should get things the easy way?
Judy Holliday
Actress · American · 1921 – 1965
Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.
Helen Hayes
Actress · American · 1900 – 1993
I work hard and I will always work hard. But I feel very lucky with the way that it has all come together.
Vanessa Carlton
Musician · American · b. 1980
I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.
Sean Penn
Actor · American · b. 1960
It isn't always hard work that does the job.
Paul Guilfoyle
Actor · American · b. 1955
Very often we see coaches who have not been successful being recycled, instead of looking to a new face or a new name who has demonstrated the ability to handle the job.
Lynn Swann
Athlete · American · b. 1952
Pray for intestinal fortitude, work hard, and keep the faith. Oh, and pray for good luck, you're gonna need it.
Jerry Reed
Musician · American · b. 1937
Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in the practice. It does take work and it ain't easy - but man, the rewards!
Susan Powter
Celebrity · American · b. 1957
It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut.
John L. Phillips
Astronaut · American · b. 1951
Of course it's difficult to top a box office success like Emmanuelle, so it will always be my most important work. But that's nothing to be ashamed of.
Sylvia Kristel
Actress · Dutch · b. 1952
Last year, I was on Threat Matrix. We were on Thursday against Friends and Survivor; so this year it's fun to know people are watching, and to know that all of your hard work is not sort of wasted.
James Denton
Actor · American · b. 1963
Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.
Alex Rodriguez
Athlete · American · b. 1975
And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see.
Victoria de los Angeles
Musician · Spanish · 1923 – 2005
I have younger friends who don't work, and they aren't doing so well. My secret is to keep going, keep working.
Les Paul
Musician · American · b. 1915
I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics.
Brody Armstrong
Musician · Australian · b. 1979
I think I work harder on the pitch, I cover more ground and my passing is more accurate.
Frank Lampard
Athlete · English · b. 1978