The trick of it, she told herself, is to be courageous and bold and make a different. Not change the world exactly,… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
The necessity of loyalty between friends, the responsibility that the strong owe the infirm, the illusion of ill-gotten gain, the rewards of… — Michael Dorris Copy Share Image
A 9-5 from age 22 til' 65 is absurd. Wake up and realise that we were made to LIVE not to survive.… — Tsepiso Makhubedu Copy Share Image
If the goal is to realize the Supreme Being, you should become egoless. That requires self-effort. The sadhak should work hard. He… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Year after year in Washington, budget debates seem to come down to an old, tired argument: on one side, those who want… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
We must help all our young people to understand that ours is still a very poor country, that we cannot change this… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
That taught me how to work harder. I learned all about mental toughness on the practice field. If things weren't working out… — Tom Brady Copy Share Image
We are not asked to subscribe to any utopia or to believe in a perfect world just around the corner. We are… — Emily Greene Balch Copy Share Image
When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart from us… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
When I stand back and look at people I was at drama school with, and think of how good they were, yes,… — Adrian Lester Copy Share Image
I told some people before, that if five years from now, or 10 years, if I am still playing in the NFL,… — Devlin Hodges Copy Share Image
Working in TV and navigating success is a tricky thing. It's easier to navigate the hard work of starting out because you… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be, as Poor Richard says, “the greatest prodigality'; since, as… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If you can look at your failure and answer yes to the questions, "Did I give it my absolute best effort?" and… — Ian Anthony Dale Copy Share Image
Nationally, more than one million Asian American entrepreneurs create jobs in their communities, helping fuel local commerce. In New York, we have… — Nydia Velazquez Copy Share Image
The person who is working on his or her family history fits the description of one who is fulfilling his or her… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Success in science and scientific work come not through the provision of unlimited or big resources, but in the wise and careful… — Lal Bahadur Shastri Copy Share Image
“Every day each of us in his own activity is engaged in trying to reduce the effort it requires to accomplish a… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Aging happy and well, instead of sad and sick, is at least under some personal control. We have considerable control over our… — George Vaillant Copy Share Image
Call yourself "Colonel" and declare that your fortune was left to you by Dutch burghers from the seventeenth century. Now you're a… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
Well, this week's peeve might be... when art writers talk about an artist's 'efforts,' meaning their work. It always sounds patronizing to… — James Nares Copy Share Image
You see, for me [art]'s not one of life's ornaments, rococo relaxation to be greeted affably after a day of hard work;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can't really discover the most interesting conflicts and problems in a subject until you've tried to write about them. At that… — Anthony F. C. Wallace Copy Share Image
The trickle-down experiment that began in the Reagan years failed America's middle class. Sure, the rich are doing great. Giant corporations are… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
I think that the spirit of America is still very much one of where people want to work hard and the majority… — Robin Leach Copy Share Image
To succeed, you must have tremendous perserverance... tremendous will. "I will drink the ocean", says the perservering soul; at my will mountains… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The goal in life is the same as in basketball: make the effort to do the best you are capable of doing--in… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
“The elements of trial and error, similar to earth and sky, and fire and water, delineates the constituent modules of our lives.… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I gave myself permission to care, because there are a lot of people in this world who are afraid of caring, or… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
To be recognized for your hard work is a true honor. An Academy Award nomination is one thing that, five years later,… — Hailee Steinfeld Copy Share Image
From the dawn of exact knowledge to the present day, observation, experiment, and speculation have gone hand in hand; and, whenever science… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My mother told me if I work hard and I really believed in American principles and I believed in God, anything is… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
“I worked out what would make me happy, and I worked out what I wanted to do, and I trained myself to… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
“So, whenever you find yourself putting forth great effort without success, you're trying to force something that won't fit under the circumstances.… — Tony Vigorito Copy Share Image
The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
My parents were working performers, so obviously I saw that there wasn't a lot of fairy tale going on there. It was… — Megan Follows Copy Share Image
Number one, it is important that we fix the legal immigration system, because right now we've got a backlog that means years… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Good work is no done by "humble" men. It is one of the first duties of a professor, for example, in any… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image