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Inspirational Quotes About Hard Work
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“My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
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Prime Minister Of India
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“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.”
Major League Baseball Pitcher
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“Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goals: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.”
Invented Pasteurization
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“In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.”
Writer
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“Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”
Catholic Saint, Founder Of Franciscans
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“You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.”
Writer
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“Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.”
Novelist, Dramatist
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This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 08/16/10“I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.”
Author
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“Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.”
Retired Professional Hall Of Fame Ice Hockey Defenseman
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“All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.”
30th Us President
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“I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.”
Governor Of New York, U.S.
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“Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.”
Bette Davis
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“The one thing that matters is the effort.”
(1900 1944); Aviator, Writer
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“There is no substitute for hard work.”
Inventor, Businessman
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“Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Accordingly a genius is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.”
Inventor, Businessman
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“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
Inventor, Businessman
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“The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.”
Philosopher, Poet, Author, Essayist
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“By the work one knows the workman.”
Author, Fabulist
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“Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.”
Founder Of Ford Motor Company
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“He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.”
Clergyman, Writer
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“Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment; full effort is full victory.”
Indian Political And Spiritual Leader
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“I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.”
Indian Political And Spiritual Leader
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“A leaf that is supposed to grow is full of wrinkles and creases before it develops; if one doesn't have the patience and wants the leaf to be as smooth as a willow leaf from the start, then there is a problem.”
Philosopher, Scientist, Author
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“Any necessary work that pays an honest wage carries its own honor and dignity.”
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“Hard work doesn't guarantee success, but improves its chances.”
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“If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.”
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“No friendly hands constructed and placed for his ambition a ladder upon which he might climb. His own brave hands framed and nailed the cleats upon which he climbed to the heights of public usefulness and fame.”
23rd U.S. President.
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“The greatest weariness comes from work not done.”
Philosopher
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“The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.”
Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
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“We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone, until those smiling possibilities are dead.”
Psychologist, Philosopher, Author
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“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
3rd U.S. President
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“It seems the harder I work, the more luck I have.”
3rd U.S. President
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“What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.”
Poet, Essayist, Lexicographer
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“If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.”
Minister, Civil Rights Activist
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“Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.”
16th U.S. President
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“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
Athletic Coach
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“The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.”
Poet
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“Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.”
Philosopher
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“The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.”
65th U.S. Secretary Of State
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“If there is no wind, row.”
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“Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”
32nd U.S. President
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“Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.”
26th U.S. President
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“Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.”
Poet, Writer, Art Critic
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“Confidence is the result of hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.”
Athlete
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“If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort.”
Science Fiction Author
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“Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.”
Basketball Coach, Author
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“Much effort, much prosperity.”
Greek Tragedian
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“Success is dependent on effort.”
Greek Tragedian
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“If people knew how hard I worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all.”
Sculptor, Painter, Architect
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“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
Philosopher
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“Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.”
Roman Lyric Poet
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“As surely as the acorn becomes the oak tree, the images in your mind become your reality.”
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“The greatest oak was once a little nut that held it's ground.”
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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. ”
Former Professional Baseball Player
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“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.”
Poet, Novelist, Playwright
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“I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.”
Writer, Nobel And Pulitzer Prize Winner
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“Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.”
Childrens' Rights Activist
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“Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working the engines.”
Actor, Director
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“Hard work and togetherness. They go hand in hand. You need the hard work because it's such a tough atmosphere... to win week in and week out. You need togetherness because you don't always win, and you gotta hang though together. ”
Former Professional Football Player And Coach
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