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HARD WORK QUOTATIONS

"Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen."

Conan O'Brien

"If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great."

Tom Hanks

"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."

Virgil L. "Stubby" Currence

"The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it."

John Ruskin

"There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits."

Michael Phelps

"Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted."

David Bly

"Work hard at work worth doing. "

Theodore Roosevelt

"The fruit of your own hard work is the sweetest."

Deepika Padukone

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."

Beverly Sills

"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand."

Vince Lombardi

"If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level you say you do, there’s no way around doing the work it takes to get you there."

Joyce Chapman

"There is no substitute for hard work."

Thomas Edison

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Superb I like it

Rajesh kumar from Amritsar, October 23, 2017

Hard work is healthy for our body´s and can save you.

Bucky from Texas, October 13, 2016

hard work is worth the effort of a life time

breanna, August 25, 2015

hard work + impossible = Im_possible

Anna Hart from California, September 4, 2014

HARD WORK IN SMART WAY MAKES MAN PERFECT FOR SUCCESS.

Ganny Gonsalves from Geneva,SWITZERLAND, September 1, 2014

HARD WORK IS KEY TO SUCCESS

MOHSIN ALI KHAN from Bahria Town RWP , June 12, 2014

love to do hardwork

T.shalini from namakkal, April 18, 2014

i think smart work is more important than hard work

trishita from hyderabad, March 31, 2014

The dignity in any job consists in doing it right.

Dennis Dinzeo from Las Vegas NV, February 18, 2014

hardwork place to peasful life and strong determination in future

shivprasad rajput from dondaicha, January 14, 2014

Work hard at present Enjoy in future

nikita verma from una, hp, india, December 18, 2013

work hard play hard follow me

dylon from pegos, November 14, 2013

i work hard in everything i do. follow me

josh farr from granite bay, CA, November 5, 2013

I like this it give my childrens something to read they good kids

Ashanti Greyer from new york, September 12, 2013

that's why they call it hard work. . .because it's HARD

SARGE from pennsylvania, June 15, 2013

hard work

raymond from danvill va, May 15, 2013

Hard work is to give your all plus some.

Bruce Willingham from Warner Robins, Ga, February 26, 2013

Como o trabalho difícil é bom quando termina, podemos olhar para trás e ver que de algum jeito valeu a pena. As the hard work is good when it ends, we can look back and see that somehow worth it.

Anderson from Colatina, ES - Brasil, January 7, 2012

B+ = be positive, makes hard work and life more fulfilling and easier!

Doug from Vegas, November 12, 2011

"Nothing worth having was ever achieved without hard work" - Roosevelt

L Smith from California , April 3, 2011

It takes courage to work hard

Sean A Burrell from Plano Tx , March 28, 2011

Work hard at what you want to do

Adam David Childress from Ripley,TN, March 22, 2011

hard work pays off

dylan r from kemp TX, January 27, 2011

Hard work, while often a prerequisite for success, does not always guarantee the same.

Dr. Michael S., Ph.D., MSEE, MS from Hackensack, NJ, July 25, 2010

When you work hard, you can perservere and you can do anything you want.

Kathryn V from Mingo IA, May 10, 2010

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