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HARD WORK QUOTATIONS

"Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working the engines."

Gary Sinise

"If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort."

Stephen G. Weinbaum

"If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great."

Tom Hanks

"Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose."

G. K. Nielson

"Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration."

Thomas Edison

"Without labor, nothing prospers."

Sophocles

"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."

Sam Ewing

"There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work."

Calvin Coolidge

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

Steve Jobs

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."

Beverly Sills

"A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work."

Colin Powell

"Success isn't always about greatness. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come."

Dwayne Johnson

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Superb I like it

Rajesh kumar from Amritsar
October 23, 2017

Hard work is healthy for our body´s and can save you.

Bucky from Texas
October 13, 2016

hard work is worth the effort of a life time

breanna
August 25, 2015

hard work + impossible = Im_possible

Anna Hart from California
September 4, 2014

HARD WORK IN SMART WAY MAKES MAN PERFECT FOR SUCCESS.

Ganny Gonsalves from Geneva,SWITZERLAND
September 1, 2014

HARD WORK IS KEY TO SUCCESS

MOHSIN ALI KHAN from Bahria Town RWP
June 12, 2014

love to do hardwork

T.shalini from namakkal
April 18, 2014

i think smart work is more important than hard work

trishita from hyderabad
March 31, 2014

The dignity in any job consists in doing it right.

Dennis Dinzeo from Las Vegas NV
February 18, 2014

hardwork place to peasful life and strong determination in future

shivprasad rajput from dondaicha
January 14, 2014

Work hard at present Enjoy in future

nikita verma from una, hp, india
December 18, 2013

work hard play hard follow me

dylon from pegos
November 14, 2013

i work hard in everything i do. follow me

josh farr from granite bay, CA
November 5, 2013

I like this it give my childrens something to read they good kids

Ashanti Greyer from new york
September 12, 2013

that's why they call it hard work. . .because it's HARD

SARGE from pennsylvania
June 15, 2013

hard work

raymond from danvill va
May 15, 2013

Hard work is to give your all plus some.

Bruce Willingham from Warner Robins, Ga
February 26, 2013

Como o trabalho difícil é bom quando termina, podemos olhar para trás e ver que de algum jeito valeu a pena. As the hard work is good when it ends, we can look back and see that somehow worth it.

Anderson from Colatina, ES - Brasil
January 7, 2012

B+ = be positive, makes hard work and life more fulfilling and easier!

Doug from Vegas
November 12, 2011

"Nothing worth having was ever achieved without hard work" - Roosevelt

L Smith from California
April 3, 2011

It takes courage to work hard

Sean A Burrell from Plano Tx
March 28, 2011

Work hard at what you want to do

Adam David Childress from Ripley,TN
March 22, 2011

hard work pays off

dylan r from kemp TX
January 27, 2011

Hard work, while often a prerequisite for success, does not always guarantee the same.

Dr. Michael S., Ph.D., MSEE, MS from Hackensack, NJ
July 25, 2010

When you work hard, you can perservere and you can do anything you want.

Kathryn V from Mingo IA
May 10, 2010

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