Quotes About Work Harder

“Would you tell a USA Olympic Team hopeful that did not qualify for The Games, to give up and try another sport? No. You would tell them to work harder. Train harder. Try again at the next Olympics.
However, that is not what we hear in life. When did it become okay to tell people to quit trying and give up? When did it become okay to promote hopelessness?
If we all believe that hard work will not pay off, that we cannot try again, that we should give up early ... well then ... imagine all he great things that will never happen.
I believe in hard work. I believe in dreams. I believe that you can fall and still get up. And no one can take that away from me.”

— Kevin James Breaux

“I must work harder to achieve my goal of not seeking approval from those whose approval I'm not even sure is important to me.”

— Lauren Graham

“Marriage isn't a love affair. It isn't even a honeymoon. It's a job. A long hard job, at which both partners have to work, harder than they've worked at anything in their lives before. If it's a good marriage, it changes, it evolves, but it does on getting better. I've seen it with my own mother and father. But a bad marriage can dissolve in a welter of resentment and acrimony. I've seen that, too, in my own miserable and disastrous attempt at making another person happy. And it's never one person's fault. It's the sum total of a thousand little irritations, disagreements, idiotic details that in a sound alliance would simply be disregarded, or forgotten in the healing act of making love. Divorce isn't a cure, it's a surgical operation, even if there are no children to consider.”

— Rosamunde Pilcher

“Winslow bounced over on the balls of his feet, clearly not experiencing any sort of crash. 'Aren't your guys nervous? I'm nervous as all hell.'
'There's nothing to be nervous about,' Beck said, joining them. 'Nerves are only useful when they can spur you on to work harder, faster, better. Once the work is done, they become pointless.”

— Louisa Edwards

“Your life is carefully watched over, as was mine. The Lord knows both what He will need you to do and what you will need to know. He is kind and He is all-knowing. So you can with confidence expect that He has prepared opportunities for you to learn in preparation for the service you will give. You will not recognize those opportunities perfectly, as I did not. But when you put the spiritual things first in your life, you will be blessed to feel directed toward certain learning, and you will be motivated to work harder. You will recognize later that your power to serve was increased, and you will be grateful.”

— Henry B. Eyring

“And you still love Marc?"
"More than I can even explain. He's my rock-strong and steady, and ready for anything. He knows what I need before I know it, and he pushes me to work harder, and look deeper, and be better. He challenges me, and infuriates me, and he lights me on fire, deep in my soul. And he has never, ever let me down. Sometimes it feels like he's the only thing keeping my heart beating. I love him so much that it feels like I'm dying a little bit every day that he won't smile at me. Or touch me.”

— Rachel Vincent

“So, let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look over not only ourselves, but each other.”

— Barack Obama

“Does a man work harder for being unhappy, unfulfilled? Is he less dedicated to his job, if he is allowed to commit himself for a life to another man instead of a woman?”

— Aleksandr Voinov

“Executives will talk about the importance of passion, but what they really mean is finding somebody who will work nights and weekends on their assigned task but predictably and reliably follow orders and just work harder.”

— John Hagel III

“I have a very healthy dose of self-loathing. But I think we all have a past of being whatever our story was, of feeling not good enough. It can propel you to work harder and do more, but it can also be a tremendous trap, and you can't see beyond it.”

— Kim Cattrall

“You've got to have a villain and they'll always make me a villain. I'm used to it - it makes me work harder and it makes me fight harder.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

“Sometimes in Brazil, I work harder to make characters different and believable and to overcome the persona I have.”

— Rodrigo Santoro

“Every year, you have to keep adjusting. I'm 28; I'm not 19 anymore. You have to work harder now.”

— Felix Hernandez

“If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.”

— Bart Starr

“I've always had the idea that multi-millionaire rock stars should work harder than anyone because they have the ability to do it. Look at an artist like Andy Warhol. He never stopped working, even after he didn't need to work again.”

— Buzz Osborne

“I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.”

— Derek Jeter

“When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.”

— Vera Wang

“No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with.”

— Victoria Principal

“As a financial historian, I was quite isolated in Oxford - British historians are supposed to write about kings - so the quality of intellectual life in my field is much higher at Harvard. The students work harder there.”

— Niall Ferguson

“I have a discipline that has served me very well in my career and in my personal life ... and that's gotten stronger as I've gotten older. I've always felt if I don't just have a natural knack for it, I will just out-discipline the competition if I have to - work harder than anybody else.”

— Ryan Reynolds

“My parents said to us, practically on a daily basis, that we were as good as anyone else on this earth, and that we would simply have to work harder in order to show that.”

— Jessye Norman

“You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you're changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you'll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you'll be dead.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Language description and metaphors seem readily available. The things I have to work harder at are plot, pacing, and form.”

— Sarah Hall

“If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.”

— Edie Campbell

“Men at the top are often unaware of the benefits they enjoy simply because they're men, and this can make them blind to the disadvantages associated with being a woman. Women lower down also believe that men at the top are entitled to be there, so they try to play by the rules and work harder to advance rather than raise questions or voice concerns about the possibility of bias. As a result, everyone becomes complicit in perpetuating an unjust system.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

“Greed is good to most economists. It's greed that makes people work harder, be more productive and helps the economy grow.”

— Rebecca M. Blank

“But if life were a mellow elementary school run by well-meaning education Ph.D.s, the Deliverator's report card would say: Hiro is so bright and creative but needs to work harder on his cooperation skills.”

— Neal Stephenson

“A fucking rat race that is. CosaNostra Pizza doesn't have any competition. Competition goes against the Mafia ethic. You don't work harder because you're competing against some identical operation down the street. You work harder because everything is on the line. Your name, your honor, your family, your life. Those burger flippers might have a better life expectancy-but what kind of life is it anyway, you have to ask yourself. That's why nobody, not even the Nipponese, can move pizzas faster than CosaNostra. The Deliverator is proud to wear the uniform, proud to drive the car, proud to march up the front walks of innumerable Burbclave homes, a grim vision in ninja black, a pizza on his shoulder, red LED digits”

— Neal Stephenson

“Forgive me for noting that conservatives seem to believe that the rich will work harder if we give them more, and the poor will work harder if we give them less.”

— E. J. Dionne

“I think this is an exciting time to be a female filmmaker. Trust your instincts, work harder than anyone else and learn your craft. Know it all. This means learn how to shoot, edit, produce and direct. Get as much experience as you can and watch a lot of films.”

— Alex Hammond

“If you want to be the best, baby, you've got to work harder than anybody else.”

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

“Work harder, work longer, and earn less because the mafia needs your money.”

— Gerald Celente

“Men will work hard for money. They will work harder for other men. But men will work hardest of all when they are dedicated to a cause. Until willingness overflows obligation, men fight as conscripts rather than following the flag as patriots. Duty is never worthily performed until it is performed by one who would gladly do more if only he could.”

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

“Work harder than anyone you know, and be lucky enough to be blessed with the genetics it takes.”

— Nasser El Sonbaty

“This thing we call luck is merely professionalism and attention to detail, it's your awareness of everything that is going on around you, it's how well you know and understand your aircraft and your own limitations. Luck is the sum total of your of abilities as an aviator. If you think your luck is running low, you'd better get busy & make some more. Work harder, pay more attention. Do better preflights.”

— Stephen Coonts

“I think it is a simple statement of principle that in a democracy you should make your MPs work harder for your vote and try and get at least majority support in their local area, and that in a nutshell is what AV does.”

— Nick Clegg

“You want to know what I make? I make kids work harder than they ever thought they could. I can make a C+ feel like a Congressional Medal of Honor and an A-minus feel like a slap in the face.”

— Taylor Mali

“That taught me how to work harder. I learned all about mental toughness on the practice field. If things weren't working out for me in high school, in college, early in my pro career, my solution was always to work harder and internalize. That way, whenever I got an opportunity, I was always prepared. See, there are a lot of guys who are all talk. They say they want to work harder and be the best, but they never pay the price. I love paying the price.”

— Tom Brady

“You should follow your passions, you know? And you should make sure you do something you love. That's all I've learned, is that if you're doing something you love you'll work harder at it and make it happen, I can promise you that.”

— Tom DeLonge

“If you make a great film full of emotion, of pathos, people want to continue to know more, to work harder.”

— Pamela Yates

“People call me a saint and I think, I have to work harder. Because a saint would be a great thing to be.”

— Paul Farmer

“After a loss like this we just have to go back and work harder. We got outplayed and that's all there is to it. You have to let it go, move on and just work harder.”

— Peyton Manning

“I wanna work harder & let myself bear the wound. even though it hurt a lot but the meaning is I can use this to help me grow up.”

— Seungri

“I always love when everybody else is really bringing their game, because it's only going to make the movie better; it just makes you work harder and they work harder and everybody is trying to get their little bit in. It's competitive in a constructive way.”

— Jennifer Lopez

“If you are posing as religious and are not living the life as stressed by God, you should wake up. It is wrong to be insincere. The best time to begin a religious life is when you are youthful and well. If you have a short time to live, you must work harder at it. And if you have along time to live, you should not waste that precious opportunity.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

“We must work harder to build mutual respect, an attitude of tolerance, with forbearance one for another.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves work harder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread.”

— Hannah More

“For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these, and yet Be thought an idler by the noisy set Of bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymen The martyrs call the world.”

— William Butler Yeats

“We need to make sure our students are exerting themselves. We need to praise them when they deserve it and to tell them honestly when they have it in them to work harder,”

— Randy Pausch

“I wish adults would spend less energy freaking out about the cutting itself and work harder to understand what drives kids to self-harm.”

— Laurie Halse Anderson