Hard Work Quotes - Page 7

• Do a little more than you're paid to. Give a little more than you have to. Try a little harder than you want to. Aim a little higher than you think possible, and give a lot of thanks to God for health, family, and friends.

  Art Linkletter

  Family, God, Good Life

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• Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn't quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out. Gentlemen, as of this moment, I am that second mouse.

  Frank Abagnale

  Perseverance, Giving Up, Attitude

  "Catch Me If You Can". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• You don't play triathlon. You play soccer; it's fun. You play baseball. Triathlon is work that you can leave you crumpled in a heap, puking on the roadside. It's the physical brutality of climbing Mount Everest without the great view from the top of the world. What kind of person keeps coming back for more of that?

  Chris McCormack

  Soccer, Sports, Baseball

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• If there is one abiding theme in the gym, it's the withering work in the ring. Those not fit do not survive.

  Emanuel Steward

  Strength, Sports, Fitness

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• When you're not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win.

  Bill Bradley

  Inspirational, Sports, Winning

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• A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

  Alistair Cooke

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Alistair Cooke (2012). “Reporting America”, p.14, The Overlook Press

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• The greater the effort, the greater the glory.

  Pierre Corneille

  Perseverance, Work, Effort

  "Character: Pauline". "Polyeucte" by Pierre Corneille, act IV, scene v, 1642.

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• The harder I work, the luckier I get.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Inspirational, Funny, Positive

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• The harder you work, the luckier you get.

  Gary Player

  Inspirational, Motivational, Work

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• Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out. You're curious and smart and bored, and all you see is the choice between working hard and slacking off. There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go.

  Randall Munroe

  Life, Motivational, Smart

  Webcomic by Randall Munroe, xkcd.com.

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  If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.

  Terry Pratchett

  Funny, Motivational, Trust

  FaceBook post by Terry Pratchett from Aug 28, 2015

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• A work in progress quickly becomes feral. It reverts to a wild state overnight. It is barely domesticated, a mustang on which you one day fastened a halter, but which now you cannot catch. It is a lion you cage in your study. As the work grows, it gets harder to control; it is a lion growing in strength. You must visit it every day and reassert your mastery over it. If you skip a day, you are, quite rightly, afraid to open the door to its room. You enter its room with bravura, holding a chair at the thing and shouting, "Simba!

  Annie Dillard

  Work, Doors, Discipline

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• How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.

  Studs Terkel

  Work, Fighting, Eight

  Studs Terkel, Sydney Lewis (2010). “Touch and Go: A Memoir (Large Print 16pt)”, p.92, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.

  Biz Stone

  Inspiring, Success, Perseverance

  Twitter post from Sep 03, 2010

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• Yeah I want it all, that's why I strive for it

  Drake

  Success, Perseverance, Determination

  Song: Successful, 2009

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• If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.

  Frank Wilczek

  Inspirational, Work, Mistake

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• Kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of the big mill towns of the Northeast. Why? Because we organized; we broke the back of the sweatshops in this country; we have child labor laws. Those were not benevolent gifts from enlightened management. They were fought for, they were bled for, they were died for by working people, by people like us. Kids ought to know that.

  Utah Phillips

  Country, Song, Brother

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. September 1, 2003.

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• Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Success, Sports, Perseverance

  FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Oct 23, 2013

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• Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what we have done to prepare for competition.

  John Smith

  Success, Sports, Regret

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• I sometimes tell students the only guarantee you've got is the music and no-one can take that away from you. Only you can take that away from you-by not practicing and not putting in enough elbow grease. The more you put into your music, the more your passion for it will grow.

  Mike Stern

  Music, Passion, Practice

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• It is only perfection in the foundations that can lead to mastery of the whole...'Talent is Work'

  Galina Ulanova

  Inspirational, Work, Discipline

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• Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging

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• Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

  James M. Barrie

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hipster

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• Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

  Steve Jobs

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• My dad, like any coach, has always stressed the fundamentals. He taught me responsibility, accountability, and the importance of hard work.

  Steve Young

  Fathers Day, Dad, Responsibility

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