- Nov 07, 2020
Hard Work Quotes
On effort, discipline, and mentors who make the difference.
These quotes push back on the idea of shortcuts, whether the subject is transforming education systems or the sweat-and-concentration reality behind writing that looks effortless. See also Discipline quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people have their big dreams and get knocked down and don't have things go their way. And you never give up hope, and you really just hold on to it. Hard work and perserverance. You just keep getting up and getting up, and then you get that breakthrough.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Putting labels on entire groups of people makes things much simpler. If all New Yorkers are pushy, or all politicians are dishonest, we don't have to do the hard work of figuring out who's who.
- Talent
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hard work pays off - hard work beats talent any day, but if you're talented and work hard, it's hard to be beat.
- Nov 07, 2020
Depression taught me the importance of compassion and hard work, and that you can overcome enormous obstacles.
- Nov 07, 2020
Understand the ways in which your hard work is going to be necessary to achieve the goals that you want.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
As Americans, we don't see the role of government as guaranteeing outcomes, but allowing free men and women to flourish based on their own vision, their hard work and their personal responsibility.
- Hard Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are no shortcuts, and you can't wing your way through real hard work. I learned the hard way by not taking auditions seriously when I first came out to L.A. and probably wasted a good seven years.
- Filtered
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't expect fame to come overnight. That filtered through to me in my own career. Look at Madonna: she's not the best singer in the world, but she's got where she has through hard work.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to laugh to myself. I don't find it work to write music, because I enjoy it. I'd find an evening of bridge hard work because you have to think like hell, and at the end, you get nothing for it.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020