Work Hard Play Hard Quotes

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  A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

  Colin Powell

  Motivational, Dream, Determination

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• When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Work, Play Hard, Advice

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.73, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The goal is not simply to 'work hard, play hard.' The goal is to make our work and our play indistinguishab le.

  Simon Sinek

  Hard Work, Play Hard, Goal

  FaceBook post by Simon Sinek from Dec 20, 2014

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• Work hard, play hard.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Meaningful, Hard Work, Play

  FaceBook post by Wiz Khalifa from Mar 15, 2013

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  Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

  Sam Ewing

  Motivational, Success, Attitude

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• Life balance is a myth. It's an illusion and the very pursuit of it is driving us crazy. For me it's about proportion - it's really a work hard/play hard equation.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Crazy, Hard Work, Play Hard

  "Danielle LaPorte | Multimedia Author, Speaker, Poet". Interview with Rachel Goldstein, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "The Graduation Speech I'd Give, if Anyone Asked" by Karina Bland, www.azcentral.com. June 03, 2015.

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• Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

  Stephen King

  Motivational, Success, Encouragement

  Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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  I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

  Margaret Mead

  Uplifting, Determination, Work

  Attributed to Margaret Mead in Wayne Mazzoni "You Vs. You: Sport Psychology Got Life" (p. 90), 2005.

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• You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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  I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

  Larry Bird

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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• I've always had a 'Work hard, play hard' attitude to life - I still do - but sometimes you get involved in something that needs a calm, methodical approach.

  Damian Lewis

  Attitude, Hard Work, Play

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• There is no substitute for hard work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Perseverance, Morning

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• Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

  Edgar Bergen

  Funny, Business, Work

  Quoted in Robert Byrne, The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1984) See Modern Proverbs 41

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• The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Motivational, Sports, Dog

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• When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Appropriate Technology: A Focus for the Nineties". Book by Robert William Stevens, 1991.

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• Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.

  B. C. Forbes

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

  James A. Garfield

  Work, Skills, Presidential

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• I'm a jet jockey and I've always escaped ever since I was a kid. I've always been a weekend type runaway person. Work hard, play hard type thing. It's not been a mid-life thing at all, it's been a habit because I think it changes your environment and how you feel even if it's for the day. It's a good thing.

  John Travolta

  Hard Work, Kids, Weekend

  "Wild Hogs - John Travolta interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I think that since I've had the baby, who's almost two, it's a work-hard-play-hard. Imake a lot of lists, I'm very scheduled, which is hard sometimes, but it keeps me organized - I know Now I can play or Now I've got to work.

  Molly Sims

  Baby, Hard Work, Thinking

  "Molly Sims on Fashion, Motherhood and Staying Healthy an Interview by Robert Piper". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The old saying of work hard, play hard really works for me. For me it's all about focus. To get the Fire Starter Sessions digital book out it was about three months of intense focus. I let my friends know that I probably wouldn't be hanging out of returning their phone calls. It wasn't about doing the dishes, I ordered a lot of pizza, and I just completely put myself in the creative bubble.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Book, Hard Work, Fire

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