“The most self-disciplined people in the world aren't born with it, but at one point they start to think differently about self discipline. Easy, short-term choices lead to different long-term consequences. Difficult short-term choices lead to easy long-term consequences. What we thought was the easy way led to a much more difficult life. I think that motivation is sort of like a unicorn that people chance like a magic pill that will make them suddenly want to work hard. It's not out there.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayWantLongDifferentSelfHardMotivationChoicesEasyDifficultTermBornChanceMagicHard WorkDisciplineConsequenceLong TermSelf DisciplinePillsShort TermUnicornEasy WayDifficult Life Author:Rory Vaden
“I am trying to get folks outside the hip-hop culture to understand why, despite the negatives, young people find hope and refuge in hip-hop. I'm hoping that young people immersed in the culture will work harder to capitalize on the possibilities for great social change that hip-hop represents as a national unified cultural youth movement.” PeopleTryingYoungCultureSocialMovementPossibilityYouthHard WorkHarderFolksHip HopDespiteHipsHopsRefugeSocial ChangeWork HarderUnified Author:Bakari Kitwana
“North Shore Animal League America is so dear to my heart not only for the amazing people that work there, the innovative life-saving programs they have, and the mission to rescue, nurture, and adopt but also for the hard work and dedication this organization has to the cause. They have saved over one million lives since their inception, and they are the world's largest no-kill animal rescue and adoption organization.” PeopleWorldHeartHardAmericaCausesAnimalMillionsHard WorkMy HeartProgramOrganizationDearMissionsSavedSavingLeagueShoreDedicationRescueAdoptionNurtureInnovativeInceptionAmazing PeopleLife SavingAnimal RescueHard Work And Dedication Author:Beth Ostrosky Stern
“Definitely people like Kanye, inspired me to work hard. He's somebody who I've seen put that grind in over the years.” PeopleYearsHardHard WorkInspiredGrind Author:Big Sean
“It's a world creation show [Shadowhunters], so we've gotta work hard in the physical production capacity with the visual effects, the sets and everything. It's not just the real world with two people chatting in a diner. That's tough on a television budget.” PeopleWorldTwoRealHardShowsEffectsCreationTelevisionHard WorkToughCapacityProductionsBudgetsVisualsReal WorldShadowhuntersDinersChattingVisual Effects Author:Joseph McGinty Nichol
“China has consistently surprised us. When I returned from the United States many years ago, it was unimaginable that we would end up where we are now. What China has achieved defies all logic. I credit this to the hard work and enterprising spirit of the Chinese people.” PeopleYearsEndsHardStatesSpiritUnitedUnited StatesHard WorkYears AgoLogicChinaCreditChineseConsistentlyUnimaginableEnterprising Author:Zhang Xin
“Maybe that's why there's an insecurity sometimes in acting, because it's not like there's a correlation between hard work and how people receive you.” PeopleSometimesHardActingHard WorkInsecurityCorrelation Author:Owen Wilson
“I am inspired by my mother's faith and the teaching I receive under the leadership of Bishop Kenneth C. Ulmer. I am also inspired by hard work and powerful people who have maintained a sense of integrity, decency, and kindness. Love really inspires me.” PeopleHardMotherPowerfulKindnessTeachingInspireHard WorkIntegrityInspiredDecencyBishopsKenneth Author:Erica Tazel
“I am inspired when I see goodness in other people. I am inspired by hard work and honesty. And I am inspired by nature.” PeopleHardHonestyHard WorkGoodnessInspired Author:Tricia Helfer
“My children are my greatest gifts and my greatest inspirations. That my husband is the most honest, kind, hard-working, and genuine person, and I honestly don't know how I could ever live without him. That my parents love me and I love and appreciate them. That I hate doing taxes. That my biggest pet peeve is inconsiderate people. That I love laughing, traveling, volunteering, and my friends. That my favorite smell is chocolate chip cookies baking in the oven. That I am blessed.” PeopleKnowsKindChildrenPersonsHardInspirationHateParentLaughingKnow HowHonestHard WorkHusbandTaxesMy FriendsAppreciateI HateBlessedMy FavoriteSmellHonestlyGenuineMy ChildrenPetMy HusbandChocolateVolunteerChipsCookiesBakingGreatest GiftsOvensParents LoveInconsideratePeevesChocolate ChipsPet PeeveChocolate Chip CookiesGenuine Person Author:Trista Sutter
“I want to imagine a country where people's wages reflect their hard work, where we have healthcare for everyone, and where every child gets to live up to his or her potential.” PeopleWantChildrenCountryHardImagineHard WorkHealthcareWages Author:Hillary Clinton
“It is very hard to enroll people in anything. And there is a very big difference between the words motivate and inspire. Motivation means we have an idea and we are going to carry through on that idea. We work hard at it, and we are disciplined. A highly motivated person takes an idea, goes out there, and won't let anybody interfere with them. Inspiration is exactly the opposite. If motivation is when you get hold of an idea and carry it through to its conclusion, inspiration is the reverse. An idea gets hold of you and carries you where you are intended to go.” PeopleIfsMeanPersonsIdeasHardBigsInspirationMotivationDifferencesInspireHard WorkOppositesConclusionCarrieWhere You AreMotivatedReverseInterfere Author:Wayne Dyer
“I feel like there are a lot of people doing a lot of hard work. I think it's too early to judge, and I don't think the gay community is in any way falling short.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsHardFallCommunityJudgingHard WorkGayGay Community Author:Amy Ray
“It feels good to finally stand on top of vanquished sloth, and actually impress some people as a hard worker.” PeopleFeelsHardHard WorkWorkersFeel GoodImpressSlothHard Worker Author:Guy Maddin
“It was very pleasurable and easy and it was nice to work with friends... people I already knew, people I didn't know but I now count as friends. There is a lot of hard work that goes into the movie but I can't claim to have been any part of that.” PeopleKnowsHas BeensI CanHardEasyNiceHard WorkClaims Author:Matt Lucas
“My purpose in life always has been to avoid work. And I hear these people saying, "I work hard and I pay my taxes." Well, you're an asshole.” PeopleWellsHas BeensHardPurposePayHard WorkTaxesPurpose Of Life Author:Malachy McCourt
“I like the idea of getting to dress up, like to do a Barry Lyndon or something about the Napoleonic period, the grand army retreating from Moscow. I understand that there's a craft to acting and a lot of people work hard at it. I just know that music is my first love. I love music, I love film, and I love clothes.” PeopleKnowsFirstsIdeasHardFilmActingHard WorkPeriodsClothesMusic IsArmyDressesCraftsFirst LoveMusic LoveMoscowI Love MusicLove FilmsNapoleonic Author:Ian Astbury
“You see people - maybe in a frustrating fashion - that don't get embraced, when they should. You get some people who get embraced too early, and they tend to flame out, but it's really rare that someone gets lucky. It's usually a combination of a lot of talent and a lot of hard work.” PeopleShouldHardTalentFashionHard WorkLuckyCombinationFlamesFrustrating Author:Chris Gethard
“People know that I have adopted four principles in living my life: simple living, punctuality, hard work and prudence.” PeopleKnowsHardSimplePrinciplesFourHard WorkLiving My LifeAdoptedPrudenceSimple LifeSimple LivingPunctuality Author:Abdul Sattar Edhi
“I'm not critical of the people who do psychotherapy. The therapists in the trenches have to face an awful lot of the social, political, and economic failures of capitalism. They have to take care of all the rejects and failures. They are sincere and work hard with very little credit, and the HMOs and the pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies are trying to wipe them out. So certainly I am not attacking them. I am attacking the theories of psychotherapy.” PeopleTryingLittlesHardCareFacesPoliticalSocialCompanyEconomicHard WorkTheoryCapitalismCreditCriticalTake CareAwfulRejectsSincereAttackingWipeTherapistsPsychotherapyTrenchesInsurance CompaniesPharmaceuticalPharmaceutical Companies Author:James Hillman
“I would have to name two people - my parents. I've seen them come through adversity and work hard to create the best life for me and my siblings. Although I don't remember them together as a couple, I remember the love they had for their children.” PeopleChildrenTwoHardTogetherRememberNamesParentHard WorkCoupleAdversitySiblingMy Siblings Author:Dwyane Wade
“There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.” PeopleHardYoungPoorPathGroupsYouthHard WorkWalkingMembersAdversityObstaclesCuresPreparationMinoritiesMinority Groups Author:Barbara Jordan
“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” PeopleWantLifeInspirationalInspirationHappensMotivationalMotivationWishWorkSuccessfulPositive ThinkingHard WorkConfidenceBasketballAthleteAfrican AmericanChampionMotivational SportsNbaMakersGymFitnessSuccessful PeopleInspirational SportsSlogansMake It HappenBasketball PlayerSuccessful BusinessMotivational BusinessFamous BasketballInspirational BasketballFamous InspirationalMotivational BasketballMotivational SuccessMotivational Inspirational SportsBasketball MotivationFitness MotivationalAchieverMotivational WorkGood BasketballNba PlayerGreat BasketballBasketball GameHealth FitnessGreatest AthleteBasketball TeamworkBasketball LeadershipBest BasketballBasketball CourtBasketball SuccessBasketball TrainingSuccess Of OthersGreat BodybuildingGreatest BasketballMotivational Keep GoingBasketball Is My LifeBasketball Is LifeGym WorkoutBasketball And LifeBasketball LifeGym MotivationTrue ChampionChampions Are MadeFunny TeamGame DayMotivational StrengthLove And Basketball Author:Michael Jordan
“I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.” PeopleHardDesireGoalAttitudeMillionsSharePositiveHard WorkOptimismOptimisticPositive AttitudeTouchedOptimistSetting GoalsPersevereKeep A Positive AttitudeMotivational WorkOptimism And Hope Author:Michael Jordan
“People, the common people, can genuinely see what I'm doing. Moreover, people know that I have adopted four principles in living my life: simple living, punctuality, hard work and prudence. These are the four principles I adopted at the very beginning and continue to use until now. People see this and give me donations.” PeopleKnowsGivingHardUseSimpleCommonPrinciplesFourHard WorkGive MeLiving My LifeAdoptedPrudenceSimple LifeSimple LivingDonationPunctuality Author:Abdul Sattar Edhi
“I know people want to run for public office, for mayor, for city council. These are people who now want to change the country. Now, getting from here to there, it's a lot of hard work. And I think that the political revolution has just started.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantCountryHardRunningPoliticalCitiesHard WorkRevolutionOfficeCouncilMayorsPublic OfficePolitical RevolutionCity Council Author:Jonathan Tasini
“I have just accepted certain things and it makes it easier. I accept I will get injured. I accept I cannot win every race. I work hard to decrease the chances of those things happening but I accept they will happen. A lot of people don't accept it. They get injured, they go crazy.” PeopleHardHappensCertainWinningChanceRaceAcceptingCrazyHard WorkEasierHappeningsAcceptedThings HappenInjuredDecrease Author:Usain Bolt
“When people contact me on Instagram or Facebook, kids and adults, who say, "You're an inspiration. You make me want to work hard to achieve my goals." If I can still do that after I retire that makes me feel good.” PeopleIfsWantFeelsStillsI CanHardInspirationKidsGoalAchieveHard WorkAdultsFeel GoodContactRetiringInstagram Author:Usain Bolt
“I like to have fun out there. I work hard, and then I get to cut loose and go out and tour, and I enjoy it. I like to go out and meet the people. I love to sell books.” PeopleBookHardFunEnjoyCuttingHard WorkSellsHaving Fun Author:James Ellroy
“The politics of grievance is pervasive. It's spreading. And when you have an economy that has been ripped to shreds like this, and when you have more and more people thinking that there's no economic opportunity - that the game is so rigged that the standard recipes of hard work and education, stick-to-itiveness and so forth don't pay off.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensHardOpportunityGamesPayEconomyEconomicHard WorkStandardsSticksRecipesRippedGrievanceRigged Author:Rush Limbaugh
“People should be able to rise as hard, high as their hard work, their ambition, their talent will take them.” PeopleShouldHardAbleTalentHard WorkAmbition Author:Hillary Clinton
“You know, you work hard but play by the rules, you can rise. You can do well. That's what we're taught. That's what we believe. That's what we think of as America. Problem is, there are just generations of people in this country who do not think that.” PeopleThinkingKnowsBelieveWellsCountryHardPlayProblemAmericaCan DoGenerationsTaughtHard Work Author:Paul Ryan
“Historically, opportunity has been afforded to a limited pool of people, excluding people of color and women. That doesn't diminish the talent or hard work of the people within that pool, but it does narrow the field of stories that have been told, and of the creative ideas and perspectives out there.” PeopleDoeHas BeensIdeasHardStoriesOpportunityCreativeTalentFieldsColorHard WorkPerspectivePoolDiminishCreative Ideas Author:Joe Robert Cole
“Play becomes a distraction, something you don't really need to do. It's not for serious people. They work hard, they don't play hard. Yes, you can say play hard, but that really means, keep working hard, right?” PeopleNeedsMeanHardPlaySeriousHard WorkDistractionReally MeanPlay HardYes You Can Author:Ian Bogost
“I think hard-working people have more opportunities no matter what on YouTube, regardless of gender.” PeopleThinkingMatterHardOpportunityHard WorkNo Matter WhatGenderYoutube Author:Grace Helbig
“Personally, having, you know, lived and worked in the White House, having been a senator, having been Secretary of State, there has traditionally been a great pool of very talented, hard-working people.” PeopleKnowsHardStatesHouseWhiteHard WorkWhite HousePoolSecretarySenators Author:Hillary Clinton
“All these people that you meet or I meet, there's not a prayer in hell that they're ever going to run for office or major office because if they're that smart, they're also smart enough to know they don't want to take everything that they've built up and have it torn apart by a sensationalized media that's so hungry for any kind of salacious detail that they'll make that the emphasis of the person's life. And then all of sudden, 50, 60 years of hard work and accomplishment go out the window.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantYearsKindPersonsHardEnoughRunningPrayerHellMediaHard WorkOfficeMajorsSmartBuiltWindowDetailsHungryAccomplishmentTornEmphasisTorn Apart Author:Mitch Albom
“The people at home will work hard and actually all of them think it was important that we hade the decision that we did make not to compromise; because we didn't have anything to compromise for.” PeopleThinkingImportantHardHomeDecisionHard WorkCompromiseHades Author:Fannie Lou Hamer
“Some things I found out in the National Convention I wasn't too glad I did find out. But we will work hard, and it was important to actually really bring this out to the open, the things I will say some people knew about and some people didn't; this stuff that has been kept under the cover for so many years. Actually, the world and America is upset and the only way to bring about a change is to upset it more.” PeopleWorldWayYearsHas BeensImportantHardAmericaFoundStuffHard WorkGladUpsetConventions Author:Fannie Lou Hamer
“I met journalists that were on both sides of things. People who are young, enthusiastic and hard working journalists working on the online side and people who had been there forever. There was one journalist who had running shoes under her desk in case she had to kick of her heels and go out and cover a breaking news story.” PeopleHardStoriesRunningYoungSidesCasesForeverHard WorkMetsNewsShoesJournalistKicksOnlineHeelsDesksBoth SidesEnthusiasticNews StoriesBreaking NewsRunning Shoes Author:Rachel McAdams
“Folk music was to strengthen and unify people, whether it was through an uprising and rebellion or whether is was through hard work, bringing in crops. But it was to strengthen each other and that's still what music is about today.” PeopleStillsHardTodayHard WorkMusic IsFolksRebellionCropsUprisingFolk Music Author:PJ Harvey
“I stand as I always have with the Cuban people who love, cherish and celebrate liberty. Hard-working, helpful people who open their hearts and homes to all, whether in Cuba or in exile.” PeopleHeartHardHomeLibertyHard WorkCelebrateHelpfulCherishExileCubaCuban Author:Andy Garcia
“The Democrats are as concerned about raising our kids and making sure that the values of empathy and hard work and discipline and self-respect are instilled in our children, and I've got a six-year-old daughter and a three-year-old daughter, and I'm not afraid to talk about how I want to provide them with the sort of cultural framework that's going to allow them to be successful, happy people.” PeopleWantYearsChildrenSelfHardKidsValuesThreeSuccessfulHard WorkDisciplineSixEmpathyDaughterConcernedOur ChildrenDemocratSelf RespectBeing SuccessfulThree YearsNot AfraidFrameworkHappy PeopleSix Year OldsThree Year Olds Author:Barack Obama
“I work hard, do my best and send it out to the world hoping that people can relate to it. I accept any reaction and hope they think it is worth reading.” PeopleThinkingWorldHardReadingAcceptingHard WorkReactionsRelateWorth Reading Author:Wally Lamb
“A lot of times people have issues with me because they don't understand where I'm coming from and haven't seen the years and years of hard work and shows I've played.” PeopleYearsHardShowsIssuesHavensHard Work Author:Girl Talk
“The good news is I think there are a lot of young people certainly who were involved in my campaigns, and I think continue to be involved in work not just politically, but through nonprofits and other organizations, that can carry this hard work of democracy forward.” PeopleThinkingHardYoungDemocracyHard WorkInvolvedNewsOrganizationCampaignsGood NewsNonprofits Author:Barack Obama
“Some people don't take me seriously, so I had to work harder.” PeopleHard WorkHarderTake MeWork Harder Author:Elle King
“People work hard and companies make big profits, but employees don't see that they share in the wealth they help to create.” PeopleHardHelpingBigsWealthCompanyShareHard WorkProfitEmployee Author:Mariana Mazzucato
“The notion that somehow through a trade war or protectionism or magical thinking that we're going to return to a romanticized economic past is, in the end, going to be an illusion. And a severe disappointment to millions of decent, hard-working people.” PeopleThinkingWarEndsHardPastMillionsEconomicHard WorkReturnIllusionTradeNotionDisappointmentDecentSevereProtectionismMagical Thinking Author:David Remnick
“We really have to work hard to remind people even though this is far away, that's it's probably the most generous thing governments have ever come together to do. Since World War II, this new institution is the only one that's emerged and is saving all these lives.” PeopleWorldWarHardGovernmentTogetherHard WorkInstitutionsSavingGenerousWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiFar AwayWorld War I Author:Bill Gates