I’m a hard headed lawyer.
Personally, I’ve learned about perseverance: when you hear the word ‘No,’ and when you hear rejection, that it’s not always final. And that timing is everything, and you have to stay the course and just keep working hard and know that, when your time comes, that it will be sweet and that it will be the perfect time.
If I could talk to my younger self, I would just say that the path to great things is filled with a lot of stumbles, suffering, and challenges along the way. But if you have the right attitude and know that hard times will pass – and you get up each time – you will reach your destination.
Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.
Hard times always lead to something great.
I think it’s really important to stay active, even when you’re very busy. I know it can get hectic and hard to find time, but make that time because you owe it to yourself.
It’s hard to say goodbye to the streets. It’s all how you do it. You can pass by and say, ‘What’s happening?’ and keep it moving, but it’s a certain element that’ll never be able to roll with you once you get to this level, because that’s the separation of it all.
I had a lot of growing up to do. A lot of times, I learned the hard way.
You’d have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I’d probably want to die in San Sebastian.
Hard work pays off – hard work beats talent any day, but if you’re talented and work hard, it’s hard to be beat.
I believe in hard work, but I believe in vindication as well. You have a few nightmares, I imagine, before you reach your dream.
No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids – human beings built them, because they’re clever and they work hard.
It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures.
A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.
I look up to a strong woman; maybe that’s why I fell for Gaga. She works incredibly hard and is very strong and inspirational like Mom, with a great work ethic.
When poor people get involved in a long conflict, such as a strike or a civil rights drive, and the pressure increases each day, there is a deep need for spiritual advice. Without it, we see families crumble, leadership weaken, and hard workers grow tired.
Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.
All the arguments to prove man’s superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.
Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.
Feelings such as loneliness, longing or love are sometimes hard to put into words; maybe that’s why we all love music, because it resonates with something we can’t share.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.
It’s hard to predict the future, but some people think that Bitcoin could do to finance what the Internet did to communications.
I work hard, and I do good, and I’m going to enjoy myself. I’m not going to let you restrict me.
I believe destiny and hard work go hand in hand. I was studying to be an engineer when my mom and my brother sent my pictures for the Miss India contest. I didn’t even know about it. If that isn’t destiny, what is?
The way to an American economic comeback, the way to help those out of work today find a paycheck, is to unleash the forces of job creation in America. The source of new jobs isn’t going to be the bureaucracies of Washington, but rather the creativity, ingenuity, and hard work of the American people.
Writing books is fun because after I do a show for a couple hours, I’m in a bus for 22 hours. It’s not hard for me to look out the window and tell a joke here and there.
My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.
I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.
Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
This is what’s hard: I know I’m legally a man, but I’m also male-minded, despite having the female appearance.
When I was 23, I climbed this mountain in Alaska called Devil’s Thumb alone. It was incredibly dangerous, and I did it because I thought that if I did something that hard and pulled it off, my life was gonna be transformed. And of course, nothing happened. But I get the search for purpose.
This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.
The best feeling in the world is a hard workout, a shower, and a protein shake.
The health care system is really designed to reward you for being unhealthy. If you are a healthy person and work hard to be healthy, there are no benefits.
Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it’s hard to go back to sleep.
Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.
Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.
It takes hard work, dedication, discipline and a positive attitude to get to the top – in business or in sports.
Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.
If you’re not hopeful and optimistic, then you just give up. You have to take the long hard look and just believe that if you’re consistent, you will succeed.
Hard work eliminates fear. That’s how I think.
I’m not hard to get along with.
I love life. I think it’s fantastic. Sometimes it deals hard things, and when it deals great things, you have to seize them.
Thank you, hard taco shells, for surviving the long journey from factory, to supermarket, to my plate and then breaking the moment I put something inside you. Thank you.
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
I think the success that I have is due to hard work and destiny. It is important to stay grounded and not take things for granted.
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.
Young people are threatened… by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.
Sometimes it’s hard to open up about your personal life, your relationship because you always want the music to be in the forefront. You want the music to be the biggest carrier of everything that you represent.
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.
You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.
It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.
It keeps me humble just to know exactly where I came from and all the hard work I had to put in to be here. It feels good to reminisce about the past.
It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we’ve made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.
Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard.
Efficiency is a great secret that can drop us right into our ideal life path, but it is a hard one to practice and something that takes constant maintenance and work.
Finding ways to unwind and switch off is just as important as working very hard.
Whatever you go into, you have to go in there to be the best. There’s no formulas. It’s all about passion and honesty and hard work. It might look glamorous, but it takes a lot of hard work. The blessing with the arts is that you can do it forever.
People say ‘dream big,’ that’s kind of one of those motivational sayings, but I would dream hard, meaning I just wanted it so badly, I could feel it.
The dark side is when you are with family and friends, and you have paparazzi screaming at you – that’s been hard to deal with.
