Top 1200 Hard Work And Persistence Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I just come every day, do my stuff before the game, work hard. You work hard, and it pays off.

Inspiration is one thing and you can't control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work.

Hard work certainly goes a long way. These days a lot of people work hard, so you have to make sure you work even harder and really dedicate yourself to what you are doing and setting out to achieve.

I'm not guaranteeing that if you work hard you'll be able to duplicate my success. But in America, if you work hard, you just might. I'm a perfect example of that.

To be recognized for your hard work is a true honor. An Academy Award nomination is one thing that, five years later, I can't form a sentence about. It has not made me feel like I can work any less hard. It makes me feel like I have to work 100 times as hard, to even be as remotely good, to work through an experience that could take me through that again.

I look for the ability to work. Directing is hard work. They don't teach you that in film school. Critics are not aware of it, but it is hard, physical work.

I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.

The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting. For some, it's a Broadway spotlight; for others, a lamplit desk. Use your natural powers -- of persistence, concentration, and insight -- to do work you love and work that matters. Solve problems. make art, think deeply.

Just be thankful for what you have in the moment, but most importantly, work hard. The things that you work hard on have a lot of impact.

In dancing, you can work hard and improve and see the results. With acting, you can work hard, and it's still luck of the draw.

I really try hard not to work, not to engage, because I know what that means. What hard work it is; it takes me away from my family.

You just have to work really hard and throw everything into it. ... It's really hard to be an artist, and even if you do work really hard, there's no guarantee about anything. There's no advice you can give someone that things will somehow work out, but you can talk to people about how they can make art a big part of their life.

Most startups are not nearly focussed enough. They work hard...maybe, but they don't work hard on the right things.

My game is hard work and pride. On the all hard-work team, I'd pick myself five times.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it'll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

You have to work hard, and you have to enjoy what you're doing. If you don't enjoy it, no matter how hard you seem to work, you're not going to be working as hard as you can because you're not enjoying it.

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

I work hard and I will always work hard. But I feel very lucky with the way that it has all come together.

People work really hard to get to a certain point. But they have to work just as hard to stay there

To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damned hard.

There are so many filmmakers who are so talented, and actors and writers who work so hard, and it's really hard to let your work enter the world.

Some people work hard to be something that they're not, and I don't work at all, I'm just me. And that can bother anybody I'm not working nearly as hard as the other guys, and they don't like it.

I didn't work hard for success. I worked hard because that's what is in me. I showed up in this world somehow knowing that you have to work hard. You can't just have a thought. You have to follow the thought through.

I think that if you have a knack for storytelling, and you work really hard at it, you'll have a chance to tap into something deep. But the fact remains that good sentences are hard won. Any writer worth a lick knows constructing a sentence, a paragraph, or a chapter is hard work.

It's been a straight strip, I must tell you, I've enjoyed it all the way. If I'm saying things to make it sound like it's hard, hard work, it's not. It's beautiful work. It's fun work. It's everything you'd ever want to do.

We work hard in the gym; we work on set plays, which are massive. We work really hard on them on the training ground.

My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another.

It’s easier to have courage and trust the process when you feel you’re making headway. Mastery is not persistence when you see a light at the end of the tunnel. True mastery is persistence when you don’t yet see the light.

Uncle Jack Charles and his mob, I wouldn't have a career if it wasn't for their persistence. They worked hard at a time when no one took them seriously and no one even considered indigenous roles as a mainstream option.

The basketball skills I have, I've got because I work hard. When you work hard, I think you don't have to be afraid of anything.

I enjoy myself a lot but I derive more joy in working. I believe in hard work and one of my business success secrets is hard work. It's hard to see a youth that will go to bed by 2am and wake up by 5am. I don't rest until I achieve something.

At the beginning of a novel, a writer needs confidence, but after that what's required is persistence. These traits sound similar. They aren't. Confidence is what politicians, seducers and currency speculators have, but persistence is a quality found in termites. It's the blind drive to keep on working that persists after confidence breaks down.

I work hard. That's what people should know about me. I work hard. I eat right. I'm in the gym.

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.

When the ball don't lie, you can look at it as, OK, if I put that hard work in with shooting, what's going to happen? The ball is going to go in more. If I'm doing a lot of hard work, in the gym, in the weight room, I'm putting that hard work in - then throughout your career, that ball is not going to lie.

Hard work and training. There's no secret formula. I lift heavy, work hard and aim to be the best.

The entire issue is that women bear a disproportionate share of the hard work. Birthing, carrying, the whole thing - it's hard work.

I learned you're going to have to start from the ground up, and honestly, it starts with hard work, hard work in the offseason, and no shortcuts really.

My health and schoolwork come first. I work hard to get lots of sleep, but I probably work just as hard to spend time with friends.

Women in our generation, we were taught we can be and do anything as long as we work hard. But you can't work hard enough for two people.

Hard work is not punishment. Hard work is the price of admission for the opportunity to reach sustained excellence

If you want to be good at something, you really have to work at it every single day. You have to work hard at the things that are hard. Otherwise you are just treading water.

People work really hard to get to a certain point. But they have to work just as hard to stay there.

There's a difference between someone who's 'harsh' and someone who is 'hard.' Life was hard. You lived in the South, as my grandparents did, and you had to survive. That is hard. In order to respond to that, he had to become a hard man, with very hard rules, very hard discipline for himself, very hard days, hard work, et cetera.

Kobe taught people how to work hard, he taught you how to work hard. He gave you the blueprint of what you should do to be a successful basketball player, and work hard.

You got to work hard whatever you're doing and try to be number one and take pride in what you're doing. You want to be at the best at your spot then you got to work hard, man. A lot of guys don't work as hard as it gonna take.

I will always tour, it's hard work it really is hard work, but the feedback and the buzz you get back from it is worth it.

There's no substitute for hard work. If you work hard and prepare yourself, you might get beat, but you'll never lose.

No matter how hard you work for your money, there's always someone out there willing to work twice as hard to take it away from you.

Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems.

People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.

At school, I had to work really hard to get a D in maths. And I wasn't slacking off; I actually did work quite hard.

I work hard, so I surround myself with people that work just as hard. It's important if you want to create a successful brand.

You see, without hard work and responsibility, there is no American Dream. Hard work lays the foundation. Our solidarity makes work pay - for all of us. For the greater good. That's what our vision of shared prosperity is all about.

You got to be able to work hard. And that's what I do. I work hard, because that's what's necessary. You have to go that extra mile.

I think the best way to get a good night sleep is to work hard throughout the day. If you work hard and, of course, work out.

To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.

Stop trying to be different. Just do what you are good at, and work really hard. You have to work hard to be chaos.

It's hard work making movies. It's like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it's emotional, tense work. If you don't really love it, then it ain't worth it.

I have never known anyone else," Egwene said to him, "who will work so hard to avoid hard work, Matrim Cauthon.