2,968 Quotes About Hard-work

There is no subsitute for hard work.

I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. . . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.

Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making an effort. Most people believe that they'll wake up some day and find themselves rich. Actually, they've got it half right, because eventually they do wake up.

Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.

There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.

Success is the result of hard work.

Education isn't play--and it can't be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work.

Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.

Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you'll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor. Medicare was established to secure that promise.