Quotes on Hard Work

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

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Stay healthy, do sports and above all have fun while doing sport. Competing or just for fun, whatever, simply enjoy and try your best. Working hard, working well with achievable goals normally pays off. Believe in the people that are with you and listen to those who have more experience.

Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all.

Passion and hard work makes a great player, but the courage to get up every time you fall is what makes a champion.

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.

Effort and hard work construct the bridge that connects your dreams to reality.

If you spend too much time learning the 'tricks' of the trade, you may not learn the trade. There are no shortcuts. If you're working on finding a short cut, the easy way, you're not working hard enough on the fundamentals. You may get away with it for a spell, but there is no substitute for the basics. And the first basic is good, old fashioned hard work.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Starting a business is a huge amount of hard work... You had better enjoy it.

Worrying gets you nowhere. If you turn up worrying about how you're going to perform, you've already lost. Train hard, turn up, run your best and the rest will take care of itself.

Work hard to seem infallible and others will work to find our flaws. Admit our shortcomings and others will work to help us be infallible.

It may not be possible to 'win the future,' in President Obama's words, but if we're going to encourage more innovation, it's not enough for us to just dig in and work harder. We also need to encourage surprise and serendipity. We need to play each other's instruments.

If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder.

Men will work hard for money. They will work harder for other men. But men will work hardest of all when they are dedicated to a cause. Until willingness overflows obligation, men fight as conscripts rather than following the flag as patriots. Duty is never worthily performed until it is performed by one who would gladly do more if only he could.

Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work

Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence.... Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

There is no substitute for work. Worthwhile results come from hard work and careful planning.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

I’ve learned that possibly the greatest detractor from high performance is fear: fear that you are not prepared, fear that you are in over your head, fear that you are not worthy, and ultimately, fear of failure. If you can eliminate that fear—not through arrogance or just wishing difficulties away, but through hard work and preparation—you will put yourself in an incredibly powerful position to take on the challenges you face.