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Work Hard Quotes

Men worked hard, but women worked miracles. Because when my dad finished his work that was his own time. But my mum didn’t stop working, women didn’t stop working. Carers didn’t stop working, all the women in my family were carers in some respect.

– Ricky Gervais

The Office star on his labourer father and carer mother.

His answer to every problem, every setback, was “I will work harder!” – which he had adopted as his personal motto.

– George Orwell

Animal Farm. Chapter 3. The hardworking cart-horse Boxer, who has incredible strength.

Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing.

– Robert A. Heinlein

The double sessions are tough. The manager wants us to get fit, wants us to work hard. And that’s because the Premier League is so tough. We need it. Something we have to do.

– Harry Kane

I don’t think about those things, really. I work hard on everything I do. Everything is a struggle, everything is hard, everything is difficult.

– Harvey Keitel

I think self-belief is a massive thing in football. If you don’t believe in yourself, not many others will. Work hard and believe in yourself, and I think you’ll go as far as your body will take you.

– Harry Kane

Chinese people become jealous about status more easily. Foreigners are more inclined to look up to successful people. I don’t understand why there is a difference. If two people start at the same point and then one person gets ahead, the other should work hard to catch up. But instead, they just curse. They are jealous.

– Gong Li

Go ahead, work hard and never be afraid to try something. Even if you don’t make it, at least you can say you tried.

– Guy Lafleur

It’s better to grow your employees, steer them into a place that they can learn and succeed, and want to work hard and be loyal, than to have a revolving door of employees. That’s demoralizing.

– Glen Mazzara

Financing is tough, and you really have to work hard in the businesses you invest in.

– Greg Brenneman

I practice and work hard at my music, but I’m not saving lives here.

– Harry Connick, Jr.

I think credibility is one of those things that, if you work hard and you get it by standing in the trenches and traveling the world, people realize you’re multi-faceted. Part of me is a serious journalist and I loved all of the stuff I did. And then there’s another part of me that likes to let go and I think a lot of women can relate to that.

– Hoda Kotb

Midwestern people stick together. Gee willikers, they work hard. There’s no glitz, no glamour. When I was a girl in Duluth, Minnesota, I used to get up early and milk cows, so I know what hard work is.

– Gena Lee Nolin

I just work hard and do things as they come along. But it has been a challenge to learn that I have to say ‘no’ to things and to know how and what to prioritize.

– Hanneli Mustaparta

A lot of people say second seasons are harder than the first because people are now expecting you to do stuff, so yes, that’s down to me to work hard and try and improve and, like I say, just letting my football do the talking.

– Harry Kane

I grew up in a fun-loving environment – you work hard and play hard.

– Hunter Hayes

I definitely challenge people. But hopefully, I am working harder than anybody else, and so people won’t resent the fact that I want them to work hard, as well.

– Gina McCarthy

I work hard. I work 80-90 hours a week in part-time football.

– Graham Roberts

You’ll work hard to create characters that are compelling and unforgettable. But in the end, it’s the story that matters.

– James Dashner

Canada was built around a very simple premise. A promise that you can work hard and succeed and build a future for yourselves and your kids, and that future for your kids would be better than the one you had.

– Justin Trudeau

Many of us develop different flavors of cynicism that we work hard to resist because they can be lazy mental shortcuts.

– James Comey

Of course I work hard. Why shouldn’t I? Who am I to think I should get things the easy way?

– Judy Holliday

I come from a pretty working-class neighborhood in Chicago. Hard work was just expected of you. It wasn’t some noble thing you did; it was a prerequisite. It’s what a man did. You get up, you put on your boots, and you work hard. We’ve lost a lot of that, I’m afraid.

– John C. Reilly

You really have to work hard and apply yourself and by applying yourself and working hard and being diligent, you can achieve success.

– Julie Benz

You work hard and you have expectations. So I’m living my expectations right now.

– Jenni Rivera

I’m enthusiastic and ambitious, and I work hard.

– Jason Statham

Performance-wise, you really need to be down in the trenches; you need to do the hard work, for a lot of reasons: To build yourself as a performer, to get a sense of the audience, to work hard and to wonder, ‘Do I really want to do this?’

– Joan Jett

I wanted to make a movie, because the whole life of the movies appealed to me. You work hard for three or four months, then you don’t work at all for a couple of months.

– Gregory Hines

Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the rules. And you also have to work even harder to maintain those rules, and within that find excitement and unpredictability and all that stuff.

– Joel Edgerton

Chefs are at the end of a long chain of individuals who work hard to feed people. Farmers, beekeepers, bakers, scientists, fishermen, grocers, we are all part of that chain, all food people, all dedicated to feeding the world.

– Jose Andres

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