2,968 Quotes About Hard-work

  • Author George Carlin
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    hard work is a misleading term. physical effort & long hours do not constitute hard work. hard work is when someone pays you to do something you'd rather not be doing. anytime you'd rather be doing something other than the thing you're doing...you're doing hard work.

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  • Author George Carlin
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    I never take credit for anything, because it's mostly genetic to my way of thinking. Even the need to work hard with some genetic talent you're given - the need to go out and develop it, and push hard to bring it to people.

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  • Author Georges Cuvier
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    The works which this man [Joseph Banks] leaves behind him occupy a few pages only; their importance is not greatly superior to their extent; and yet his name will shine out with lustre in the history of the sciences.

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  • Author Gilbert K. Chesterton
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    What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a nail in his boot that prevented him from going on. For the old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which made him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his aims, which will make him stop working altogether.

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  • Author Guy Croy
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    They were very happy to see him finally get a reward for all the hard work he has put in for several months.

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  • Author J. Cole
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    I always feel like it's two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that's step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

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  • Author Jamais Cascio
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    Futures thinking is hard work. Fortunately, you do get better at it with practice. It's worth the effort.

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