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quotes about work ethic
“If you work really hard, and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.”
conan o’brien
“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.”
babe ruth
“And also don’t forget, the reason opportunity is often missed is that it usually comes disguised as hard work.”
clifford irving
“There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call ‘the breaks.'”
countee cullen
“If you try and lose then it isn’t your fault. But if you don’t try and we lose, then it’s all your fault.”
orson scott card
“Genius is 1% talent and 99% hard work…”
albert einstein
“Make a pact with yourself today to not be defined by your past. Sometimes the greatest thing to come out of all your hard work isn’t what you get for it, but what you become for it.”
steve maraboli
“When you start living the life of your dreams, there will always be obstacles, doubters, mistakes and setbacks along the way. But with hard work, perseverance and self-belief there is no limit to what you can achieve.”
roy t. bennet
“Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don’t think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn’t stop you from doing anything at all.”
richard p. feynman
“The only genius that’s worth anything is the genius for hard work.”
kathleen winsor
quotes about work ethic
“I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
thomas jefferson
“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”
thomas a. edison
“If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.”
michelangelo buonarroti
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”
beverly sills
“Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.”
adrienne rich
“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”
stephen king
“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occassion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.”
thomas jefferson
“If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn’t anything you can’t do if you want to.”
jim henson
“Thinking is hard work, which is why you don’t see many people doing it.”
sue grafton
“A lot of people want a shortcut. I find the best shortcut is the long way, which is basically two words: work hard.”
randy pausch
quotes about work ethic
“God doesn’t tell you to do hard things so He can stand back and laugh and watch you struggle. He tells you to do things that He knows are gonna work out to your good in the end.”
joyce meyer
“Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.”
gordon b. hinckley
“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.”
jimmy johnson
“When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.”
theodore roosevelt
“Goals are achieved through discomfort and hard work. They aren’t achieved when you hide out in a place where you’re nice and cozy.”
colleen hoover
“No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
theodore roosevelt
“When you chase a dream, you learn about yourself. You learn your capabilities and limitations, and the value of hard work and persistence.”
nicholas sparks
“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.”
george carlin
“If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires.”
malcolm gladwell
“Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard.”
kevin durant
quotes about work ethic
“Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.”
frank ocean
“Don’t chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and word hard. The right people – the ones who really belong in your life – will come to you. And stay.”
will smith
“If you want something you can have it, but only is you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you’re willing to risk failure.”
philip pullman
“Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That’s it.”
malcolm gladwell
“It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.”
confucius
“When you study great teachers… you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.”
william glasser
“All my adult life I’ve felt drawn to ask long-married couples how they were able to stay together. All of them said the same thing: ‘We worked hard at it.'”
randy pausch
“I am not lucky. You know what I am? I am smart, I am talented, I take advantage of the opportunities that come my way and I work really, really hard.”
shonda rhimes
“The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Work is the key to success, and hard work can help you accomplish anything.”
vince lombardi jr.
“I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.”
margaret thatcher
quotes about work ethic
“Most of us understand that your future is not promised to you. It is constructed day by day, through the choices you make. Your future is earned, little by little, through hard work and action. If you don’t act accordingly, that dream dissolves.”
chanel miller
“Passion comes after you put in the hard work to become excellent at something valuable, not before. In other words, what you do for a living is much less important than how you do it.”
cal newport
“Sometimes there’s not a better way. Sometimes there’s only the hard way.”
mary e. pearson
“Thinking is the capital, enterprise is the way, hard work is the solution.”
a.p.j. abdul kalam
“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.”
pele
“It has taken me years of struggle, hard work, and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.”
isadora duncan
“Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.”
malcolm gladwell
“Be like a duck, paddling and working very hard inside the water, but what everyone sees is a smiling and calm face.”
manoj arora
“Though you can love what you do not master, you cannot master what you do not love.”
mokokoma mokhonoana
“Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress: Working hard for something we love is called passion.”
simon sinek
Quotes about work ethic
“If I work hard enough, there will be things I can do tomorrow that I can’t do today.”
randy pausch
“Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.”
malcolm gladwell
“Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.”
newt gingrich
