If you don't feel challenged, it's because you're not doing enough. Ballet should never feel comfortable. Comfortable is lazy! If you're comfortable… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
If you work hard enough at something, it begins to make itself part of you, even though you do not really like… — Qiu Xiaolong Copy Share Image
The one thing in life you can control is your effort. Are there any shortcuts in the beauty business? No. That was… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
There's a danger in romanticizing what it means to be a writer. Because what it really means is hard, hard work. It… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Putting labels on entire groups of people makes things much simpler. If all New Yorkers are pushy, or all politicians are dishonest,… — Robert J. Waldinger Copy Share Image
The good things of life are produced by learning with hard work; the bad are reaped of their own accord, without hard… — Democritus Copy Share Image
The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In what tone do… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
That made me feel very disturbed, because it never seemed to be about how much hard work was involved. Ever. It was… — Julia Ormond Copy Share Image
I take pride in working very hard. You need to understand that hard work doesn't instantly pay off. My career grew gradually… — Trey Songz Copy Share Image
It feels like all my hard work is getting recognized. It makes me work even harder. — Gucci Mane Copy Share Image
Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease which, once contracted, cannot be got out of… — Monica Dickens Copy Share Image
“A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.’ —Elbert Hubbard” — Virender Kapoor Copy Share Image
“Capable psychonauts who think about thinking, about states of mind, about set and setting, can get things done not because they have… — David McRaney Copy Share Image
“Each profession, intellectual or manual, deserves consideration, whether it requires painful physical effort or manual dexterity, wide knowledge or or the patience… — Mariama Bâ Copy Share Image
“Hard work is never a punishment. If you see it so, you may not do it with the right attitude.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Enslave a man and you destroy his ambition, his enterprise, his capacity. In the constitution of human nature, the desire of bettering… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
“Think of the celebrated artwork on your fridge. Your best effort plus the love of the Savior is a masterpiece. It's not… — Kim Nelson Copy Share Image
I've been blessed to be somebody that's been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now… — DJ Khaled Copy Share Image
“There are two types of purusharth (effort): one is the purusharth that arises from prarabdh (effect of past life karma), relative effort.… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
If your experiences suggest to you that poor black folk are lazy, then you must be true to those experiences - except,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Hard work, courage and commitment - these are the key elements for success. — Dalia Grybauskaite Copy Share Image
