Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Theodore Roosevelt - Keyword(s): Ability , Men , Job

Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish.
Brad Henry - Keyword(s): Ability , Faith

There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.
Derek Jeter - Keyword(s): People , Talent , Excuses

To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It's not about winning and losing; it's about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge. It's about embracing the pain that you'll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid. I think people think too hard and get afraid of a certain challenge.
Summer Sanders - Keyword(s): Challenge , Pain , Experience

A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.
Charles Erwin Wilson - Keyword(s): Ability , Men

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
Andrew Carnegie - Keyword(s): Ability , World

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Stephen King - Keyword(s): Success , Talent

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
Elbert Hubbard - Keyword(s): Ability , Reward , God

The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity.
Joshua Waitzkin - Keyword(s): Ability , Success , Adversity

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
Harry S. Truman - Keyword(s): Ability , Peace

I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe in the goodness of others.
Muhammad Ali - Keyword(s): Men , Talent , Belief

I'll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger.
Tim Tebow - Keyword(s): Motivation , Strength

The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.
Mignon McLaughlin - Keyword(s): Desire , Life , Love

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.
Bill Gates - Keyword(s): Life

I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps as good or better than the original work. But the vast majority of them are pointless.
Alan Moore - Keyword(s): Fear , Adaptation , Good

Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.
Paul Ryan - Keyword(s): Achievement , Success , Community

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down.
Eminem - Keyword(s): Motivation , Music

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 - Keyword(s): Effort

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
George Jean Nathan - Keyword(s): Job , Life

Hard work pays off - hard work beats talent any day, but if you're talented and work hard, it's hard to be beat.
Robert Griffin - Keyword(s): Talent

I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I've worked very hard in the last ten years of my life, definitely, and I can tell you that hard work pays off. It's not just a cliche.
Cameron Diaz - Keyword(s): , Accomplishment , Life

You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Anonymous - Keyword(s): Effort , Thinking

I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have.
Coleman Cox - Keyword(s): Effort , Luck

When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
Betty Bender - Keyword(s): Job , Heart , Society

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
Arnold Toynbee - Keyword(s): Job , Accomplishment , Play

I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. These I shall have.
Rupert Brooke - Keyword(s): Friendship

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.
Erma Bombeck - Keyword(s): Children , Mothers , Summer

You can't have a million dollar dream with a minimum wage work ethic.
Anonymous - Keyword(s): Effort

There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.
Henry Ward Beecher - Keyword(s): Books , Mind , Laziness

If A is a success in life, then A equals X plus Y plus Z. Work is X; Y is play, and Z is keeping your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein - Keyword(s): Success , Play , Life

The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity.
George Carlin - Keyword(s): Butterflies

The reason most people do not recognize an opportunity when they meet it is because it usually goes around wearing overalls and looking like Hard Work.
Anonymous - Keyword(s): Effort , Opportunity

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Anonymous - Keyword(s): Success

There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers.
H.M. Tomlinson - Keyword(s):

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
Jacques Barzun - Keyword(s): Teachers

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
Florence Scovel Shinn - Keyword(s): Accomplishment , Vision , Failure

Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.
Edward H. Harriman - Keyword(s): Effort

I do not believe we can repair the basic fabric of society until people who are willing to work have work. Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life.
Bill Clinton - Keyword(s): Unemployment , Society , Life

Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it.
Bill Bradley - Keyword(s): Teamwork

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Thomas Edison - Keyword(s): Accomplishment , Intelligence , Purpose

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
Pearl Buck - Keyword(s): , Youth , Joy

The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.
Henry Louis Mencken - Keyword(s): Freedom , Laziness , Stress

Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
Henry Ford - Keyword(s): Teamwork

Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.
Josh Billings - Keyword(s): Food , Morning

The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.
Charles Handy - Keyword(s): , World , Money , Happiness

All the so-called "secrets of success" will not work unless you do.
Anonymous - Keyword(s): Effort

The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.
Anonymous - Keyword(s): Television

Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.
George MacDonald - Keyword(s): Laziness

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.
Charles Horton Cooley - Keyword(s): Travel

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Confucius - Keyword(s): Job

Courage, cheerfulness, and a desire to work depends mostly on good nutrition.
Jacob Moleschott - Keyword(s): Courage , Food

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours -all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.
William Faulkner - Keyword(s):

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
Jerome K. Jerome - Keyword(s): Laziness

Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it.
Anonymous - Keyword(s): Success

If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
Bill Gates - Keyword(s):