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When I graduated college I had a series of just humiliating jobs that I couldn't believe I was at.
— Lena Dunham
I received my draft notice right after graduation from college and had three months before going into the Army in September to think about it.
— Tim O'Brien
I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.
— Fiona Apple
I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement.
— Ayelet Waldman
My daughter finished high school the same month I got my master's degree. I'm glad I didn't know when I gave birth to her at 21 what it would cost in terms of time, money and sacrifice to bring her to that graduation day.
— Regina Brett
Almost 50 years old now, some 30 years after graduation, I look at my Caltech classmates and conclude that math whizzes do not take over the world.
— Sandra Tsing Loh
I didn't even go to graduation.
— Brendon Urie
The mission of Patrick Henry College was to attract and cultivate academic stars from the ranks of home-schooled evangelicals, then send them off on graduation day to 'shape the culture and take back the nation,' in the words of a common home-schooling rallying cry.
— Nina Easton
If someone comes to you with, 'It's my kid's graduation,' you don't tell them, 'Sorry, you can't go to that.' You just don't do that. You figure out some other way.
— Bob Iger
It's very interesting, if you look at a study that was done by the Brookings Institute back in 2009, they determined that if Americans do three things, they can avoid poverty. Three things. Work, graduate from high school, and get married before you have children.
— Rick Santorum
Truancy rates are directly correlated to low graduation rates.
— Tony Cardenas
I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts.
— Maya Lin
We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
— H. G. Wells
I love graduation speeches. I have always loved them I will always love them. 
— Bruce Eric Kaplan
It's my goal to make martial arts compulsory for girls in school. In China, you have to do two years of martial arts' training without which you cannot get a graduation degree.
— Akshay Kumar
I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year.
— R. Lee Ermey
I did get a degree in special education.
— Clay Aiken
At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.
— Laurie Anderson
We had an argument, and he told me to be home at midnight, and I said no. And so when I did come home, the door was locked. And I had gotten a set of luggage for graduation that day, and it was on the front porch, packed. He thought that he was going to prove a point and I was going to say, 'Oh, I'm sorry, Daddy, I'm sorry'.
— Delilah
I have the loving support of my girlfriend who still attends Wake Forest and is nearing graduation. She helps me cope with the everyday rigors of being an NBA player.
— Tim Duncan
I attended an evangelical Christian university on the outskirts of suburban Los Angeles and by the time of my graduation was neither evangelical nor Christian.
— Mallory Ortberg
People in my family and camp who grew up listening to rap music love 'We Are Young.' I've heard it play at weddings. I've heard it in graduation parties. It's a big idea and big song.
— Janelle Monae
My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.
— George Weinberg
It is soooooo necessary to get the basic skills, because by the time you graduate, undergraduate or graduate, that field would have totally changed from your first day of school.
— Leigh Steinberg
It's not how much you spend, it's how you spend it. We have been putting a lot of money into education in the state of Nevada, and it's gotten us to 50th in the country in graduation rates. We needed more accountability in our system.
— Brian Sandoval
Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives.
— Joe Baca
I'll co-host 'TODAY' from Los Angeles Saturday morning and then make my way up to Merced for that evening's graduation ceremony. I'm still touching up my remarks, but my challenge to the Class of 2010 will be to break through the deafening and too often negative echo chamber of the digital era and become critical and independent thinkers.
— Lester Holt
I'm not impressed by someone's degree... I'm impressed by them making movies.
— Richard King
I was on the yearbook staff, so I would take out film cameras and Nikons and take photos around school and at sporting events and things like that. We had a darkroom as well. I just loved it. I also saved up for a video camera to video my friends and cut and paste the videos together and I gave them to all of my friends for graduation.
— Dianna Agron
I decided to move out of the apartment I was sharing with my best friend before graduation and move back home. My parents had recently separated, and I wanted to move back home with my mom and my siblings.
— Katherine Schwarzenegger
I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.
— Sara Paretsky
I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.
— Parker Stevenson
Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.
— Harold E. Varmus
Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps because his wife was a poet, Ira Pastan agreed to take me into his laboratory, despite my lack of scientific credentials.
— Harold E. Varmus
The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.
— Emma Bonino
I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games I won a gold medal. 
— Scott Hamilton
My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball; however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs.
— Jim Evans
I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.
— Jim Jarmusch
I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.
— Mark Kennedy
In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.
— Simon Newcomb
When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential.
— Christine Gregoire
Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be... well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the university, most of them are still my colleagues now. People I've known for years are all in the industry together.
— Jon Secada
I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.
— Karen Finerman
I think women as well as men are concerned about jobs and the economy and spending and, and other issues. They're concerned that when their kids graduate from college they have an economy and they have a future in this country and they, they have the same opportunity that we've had and our grandparents have had.
— Ken Buck
The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.
— Martha Reeves
I have actually five honorary degrees.
— Katherine Dunham
Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, and skilled professionals.
— Ruben Hinojosa
I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs.
— Jim Clyburn
While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.
— Ruben Hinojosa
After graduation in June of 1984, I moved to Manhattan. My first stop was a psychiatrist, who in less than our first fifty-minute session again diagnosed me with depression.
— Andy Behrman
After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don't think I was there more than a month.
— John Katzman
ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business.
— Robert Sternberg
When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long.
— Gloria Stuart
I commuted to the prestigious Hibiya High School from my uncle's home in Tokyo. During the high school years, I developed an interest in chemistry, so upon graduation, I chose to take an entrance examination for the Department of Chemistry of the University of Kyoto, the old capital of Japan.
— Susumu Tonegawa
I received $100 per week when I started working at the Globe after graduation.
— Will McDonough
I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.
— Carol P. Christ
Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia.
— Julie Taymor
In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.
— Ed O'Neill
Some go on to trade schools or get further training for jobs they are interested in. Some go into the arts, some are craftsmen, some take a little time out to travel, and some start their own businesses. But our graduates find and work at what they want to do.
— Daniel Greenberg
I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.
— Peter Gallagher
After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count.
— Donna Rice
I pretty much bailed on high school. I mean, I graduated, but I wasn't even there for my own graduation.
— Tommy Caldwell
It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I'd become an actor.
— James D'arcy
I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer.
— Marc Garneau
In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
— Ted Nelson
I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.
— David Eddings
When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
— M. H. Abrams
One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do them.
— Jerry Moran
Adults tell students that it gets better, that the world changes after school, that being 'different' will pay off sometime after graduation. But no one explains to them why.
— Alexandra Robbins
I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948.
— Daniel J. Evans
I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years, and I felt the pressure of being a little behind - although I was just 22.
— Daniel J. Evans
At the end of four years' time, at graduation, we were down to 12. At our reunion that we had several years ago, only 1 out of the 52 actually made it to ordination and priesthood. So there you go, there's your numbers.
— Peter Jurasik
The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.
— Robert M. Hutchins
When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school.
— Angela Bassett
My first jobs after graduation in 1955 were as a project engineer for G.E. and later with the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., where I met and married my wife, Dolores Celini.
— Oliver E. Williamson
I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun.
— James Stewart
I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer.
— James Green Somerville
I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology.
— Frederick Reines
Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate.
— Alexis Herman
The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.
— Tony Hillerman
I have a 4-year-old and a 14-year-old, and think I missed a recital and a graduation, and they were like 'It's OK mommy, we'll take pictures.' It was my upset, though... they were just fine! I just give them a kiss and a hug and let them know that I love them every day.
— Kimberly Quinn
I did my first film when I was in the final year of my graduation. At that time, I was still a kid, and I couldn't read the industry very well.
— Uday Kiran
You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.
— Neil Simon
One half who graduate from college never read another book.
— G. M. Trevelyan
Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.
— James Tobin
All my graduation money went to paying for bartending classes so I could have a side gig. I bartended for two months before I was supposed to move to New York and then two months later I got the job as an understudy in 'Sister Act' and haven't looked back since.
— Patina Miller
Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., raising our children, Christopher, Tom, and Lucy.
— Natalie Babbitt
One week before my 17th birthday, I had a blind date with June Rose, a television actress on network soap operas, a model, and a regular on the popular Dick Clark's Saturday night 'American Bandstand' show from New York. We were married five years later, one week after my graduation from Columbia.
— Robert C. Merton
Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.
— Clive James
I graduated from the University of Whatever.
— Dana Snyder
A month before graduation I got an off-Broadway job. Then I did some commercials, including one for MCI. You can only see half of me, but it paid well. Thank God for commercials.
— Lee Pace
Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.
— Ruth Ann Minner
I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to graduate school they didn't want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didn't mince their words. But then I got in and I got my degree.
— Shannon Lucid
Following graduation from high school in 1948, I attended Harvard University where I became a physics major. Having grown up in a small town, I found Harvard to be an enormously enriching experience. Students in my class came from all walks of life and from a great variety of geographical locations.
— David Lee
Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
— Al McGuire
I went to a public high school, and after graduation, college wasn't really much of an option for me. I didn't believe I had the money or the grades at the time, so I continued to work and save money to support my acting career.
— Christie Laing
I have the cliche 'struggling actor' story. I was waiting tables in New York, went out to L.A. soon after graduation to get some jobs, but it didn't work out. I wanted to cut my teeth in professional theater, so I came back to New York. It made my journey a longer one, but I really wanted to excel in the theater.
— Pedro Pascal
I left for New York three days after graduation.
— Jenn Lyon
The day after my high school graduation in 1952, I headed to Alaska. I was 17. I started out greasing equipment, then became a heavy-crane operator. I made and saved good money there for two years.
— Dennis Washington
My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school.
— Jillian Bach
At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master's degree in English Literature. And then I came back to New York and had a series of publishing jobs, the way one does.
— Joseph Kanon
Upon graduation from high school, following my brother by a couple of years, I joined the U.S. Air Force.
— Dennis L. McKiernan
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
— Earl Nightingale
Quality is everyone's responsibility.
— W. Edwards Deming
The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.
— Jonas Salk
Work hard for what you want because it won't come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.
— Leah LaBelle
Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.
— Robin S. Sharma
Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.
— Virat Kohli
Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day.
— George Allen, Sr.
Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It's not about winning and losing; it's about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge. It's about embracing the pain that you'll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid. I think people think too hard and get afraid of a certain challenge.
— Summer Sanders
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
— Benjamin Franklin
The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it's possible to achieve the American dream.
— Tommy Hilfiger
Neither man nor woman is perfect or complete without the other. Thus, no marriage or family, no ward or stake is likely to reach its full potential until husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, men and women work together in unity of purpose, respecting and relying upon each other's strengths.
— Sheri L. Dew
I'm proud of my hard work. Working hard won't always lead to the exact things we desire. There are many things I've wanted that I haven't always gotten. But, I have a great satisfaction in the blessings from my mother and father, who instilled a great work ethic in me both personally and professionally.
— Tamron Hall
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
— Michael Jordan
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
— Vince Lombardi
Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.
— Conan O'Brien
Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.
— John Carmack
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.
— Brad Henry
Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
The greatest thing about where my life is right now is it's very relaxed and chill. I'm just hanging out, being myself and doing my work.
— Lucas Grabeel
Without hard work and discipline it is difficult to be a top professional.
— Jahangir Khan
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
I believe that we all have a responsibility to give back. No one becomes successful without lots of hard work, support from others, and a little luck. Giving back creates a virtuous cycle that makes everyone more successful.
— Ron Conway
You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress.
— Alana Stewart
Whatever you do, do with determination. You have one life to live; do your work with passion and give your best. Whether you want to be a chef, doctor, actor, or a mother, be passionate to get the best result.
— Alia Bhatt
Teamwork requires some sacrifice up front people who work as a team have to put the collective needs of the group ahead of their individual interests. 
— Patrick Lencioni
God has blessed me with an amazing family, friends and work colleagues that have been my joy, my support, and my sanity. I don't know what I'd do without them.
— Josie Loren
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
— Thomas A. Edison
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
— Elbert Hubbard
Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don't just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It's a daily struggle.
— Jackee Harry
Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.
— Iain Duncan Smith
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
— Leonardo da Vinci
I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.
— Serena Williams
If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
— Pope Paul VI
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
— Buddha
My dad said, 'Stay humble, and you gotta work harder than everybody else.' My mom said, 'Always be yourself.' She always told me only God can judge me.
— Nate Robinson
The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
— Fabrizio Moreira
When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
— Lao Tzu
I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.
— Queen Elizabeth II
That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
— Steve Jobs
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
— Margaret Mead
Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.
— John C. Maxwell
There is simply no substitute for hard work when it comes to achieving success.
— Heather Bresch
A leader's job is not to do the work for others, it's to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done, and to succeed beyond what they thought possible.
— Simon Sinek
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
— Rumi
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
— Ann Landers
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
— Alexander Graham Bell
Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it'll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.
— Kevin Hart
Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work. Few things will make you feel better than a job brilliantly done.
— Robin S. Sharma
We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community.
— Paul Bloom
The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.
— Patrick Lencioni
Creating a better world requires teamwork, partnerships, and collaboration, as we need an entire army of companies to work together to build a better world within the next few decades. This means corporations must embrace the benefits of cooperating with one another.
— Simon Mainwaring
Inspiration is one thing and you can't control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work.
— Kevin Eubanks
Power means happiness power means hard work and sacrifice. 
— Beyonce Knowles
I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You've got to put in the work. You've got to grind. You've got go through the struggle, and you've got to get it.
— Conor McGregor
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
— Saint Augustine
Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.
— W. E. B. Du Bois
The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
— Mother Teresa
I have never in my life found myself in a situation where I've stopped work and said, 'Thank God it's Friday.' But weekends are special even if your schedule is all over the place. Something tells you the weekend has arrived and you can indulge yourself a bit.
— Helen Mirren
Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.
— Haile Gebrselassie
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
— Theodore Roosevelt
The fruit of your own hard work is the sweetest.
— Deepika Padukone
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.
— Indira Gandhi
If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.
— Gordon Ramsay
While you're going through this process of trying to find the satisfaction in your work, pretend you feel satisfied. Tell yourself you had a good day. Walk through the corridors with a smile rather than a scowl. Your positive energy will radiate. If you act like you're having fun, you'll find you are having fun.
— Jean Chatzky
A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
— William Hazlitt
I have so much chaos in my life, it's become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they're wrong.
— Tom Welling
Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.
— Ken Robinson
Hard work pays off - hard work beats talent any day, but if you're talented and work hard, it's hard to be beat.
— Robert Griffin III
It has been a long journey, but if you dream and have the ambition and want to work hard, then you can achieve.
— Mo Farah
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
— Lao Tzu
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
— Henry Ford
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
— Thomas A. Edison
I enjoy the celebration of my birthday as much as anyone else does, but I always remember to start my day thanking my mom because she did most of the work the day I came into the world, not to mention all she has done throughout my life that has contributed so much to the woman I am today.
— Christy Turlington
I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
— Vincent Van Gogh
I think it's important to always keep professional and surround yourself with good people, work hard, and be nice to everyone.
— Caroline Winberg
To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.
— Louis L'Amour
In fitness, there are no short cuts. It involves immense discipline and hard work.
— Mahesh Babu
I've been blessed to be somebody that's been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it's all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I'm saying, and it feels good 'cause it's good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.
— DJ Khaled
Behaving like a princess is work. It's not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how you are inside.
— Julie Andrews
Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.
— Kailash Satyarthi
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
— Mark Twain
We can each define ambition and progress for ourselves. The goal is to work toward a world where expectations are not set by the stereotypes that hold us back, but by our personal passion, talents and interests.
— Sheryl Sandberg
If you work hard and you do your best, you can do anything.
— Erin Heatherton
Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.
— Norman Vincent Peale
My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
I am very proud of my mom and consider her the most courageous woman I know. With perseverance, sacrifice and hard work, she raised a family of Olympic athletes and gave us the tools and the spirit to succeed. That is something that my brothers and I will always be thankful for.
— Diana Lopez
I feel I am lucky. I am grateful for this life that God has given me. I am happy, as I am getting to do work that I want to do and enjoy doing it.
— Sonam Kapoor
The breaks you take from work pay you back manifold when you return because you come back with a fresher mind and newer thinking. Some of your best ideas come when you're on vacation.
— Gautam Singhania
Whatever you wanna be, just, at the end of the day, if you're being a good person, which is not hard to be, and you're putting positive energy into the world, and you're appreciative and loving to the people around you that care about you and everybody in general, then it'll work out.
— Gnash
Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
— Michael Jordan
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
— Calvin Coolidge
Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.
— Constantin Brancusi
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
— Calvin Coolidge
You just have to find that thing that's special about you that distinguishes you from all the others, and through true talent, hard work, and passion, anything can happen.
— Dr. Dre
There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time.
— Benoit Mandelbrot
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
— Woodrow Wilson
The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.
— Michael Jackson
If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.
— Noel Coward
The American Dream is still alive out there, and hard work will get you there. You don't necessarily need to have an Ivy League education or to have millions of dollars startup money. It can be done with an idea, hard work and determination.
— Bill Rancic
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
— Vince Lombardi
These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.
— Anthony de Mello
People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.
— Elon Musk
If you have a dream, it's definitely achievable through hard work, through dedication, sacrifice, everything.
— Carli Lloyd
My father taught my siblings and me the importance of positive values and a strong ethical compass. He showed us how to be resilient, how to deal with challenges, and how to strive for excellence in all that we do. He taught us that there's nothing that we cannot accomplish if we marry vision and passion with an enduring work ethic.
— Ivanka Trump
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
— Booker T. Washington
When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.
— Russel Honore
Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
— Dale Carnegie
The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. 
— Confucius
There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.
— Derek Jeter
Quality is pride of workmanship.
— W. Edwards Deming
People who make the choice to study, work hard or do whatever they endeavor is to give it the max on themselves to reach to the top level. And you have the people who get envy and jealous, yet are not willing to put that work in, and they want to get the same praise.
— Evander Holyfield
Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
— George Herbert
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
— Anne Frank
If I don't feel confident about my body, I'm not going to sit at home and feel sorry for myself and not do something about it. It's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.
— Kim Kardashian
When I am wrong, I will learn the lesson and move on to face other challenges. For me, that's what creating your own life is. Doing your best work while being your best self.
— Jennifer Lopez
Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems.
— Gever Tulley
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
— Benjamin Franklin
While natural disasters capture headlines and national attention short-term, the work of recovery and rebuilding is long-term.
— Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Just be yourself. Be honest, work towards a goal, and you'll achieve it.
— Emraan Hashmi
Play is the work of childhood.
— Jean Piaget
When you have balance in your life, work becomes an entirely different experience. There is a passion that moves you to a whole new level of fulfillment and gratitude, and that's when you can do your best... for yourself and for others.
— Cara Delevingne
The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.
— Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.
— John Muir
Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.
— Pope Francis
I think the best way to get a good night sleep is to work hard throughout the day. If you work hard and, of course, work out.
— William H. McRaven
A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.
— Charles Erwin Wilson
Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Your sweetheart calls you by another's name. His eyes linger too long on your best friend. He talks with excitement about a girl at work. And the fire catches. Jealousy - that sickening combination of possessiveness, suspicion, rage, and humiliation - can overtake your mind and threaten your very core as you contemplate your rival.
— Helen Fisher
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
— Don Marquis
To have faith doesn't mean you get any less frustrated when you don't do your best, but you know that it's not life and death. Take what you're given, and when you continue to work hard, you will see results. That will give you the confidence you need to keep going.
— Tom Lehman
Well, a lot of people don't know this about me, but I'm actually shy around people I don't know. I would just say with my first concert, my first tour, I didn't really talk onstage. I was like, 'Thank you, I love you guys,' or whatever. But now I've just kind of learned to work a crowd.
— Avril Lavigne
There are two tests in life, more important than any other test. On Monday morning, when you wake up, do you feel in the pit of your stomach you can't wait to go to work? And when you're ready to go home Friday afternoon, do you say, 'I can't wait to go home?'
— Chuck Schumer
Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.
— Ralph Marston
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Hard work opens doors and shows the world that you are serious about being one of those rare - and special - human beings who use the fullness of their talents to do their very best.
— Robin S. Sharma
Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.
— Twyla Tharp
Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.
— Johnny Carson
There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy.
— Kat Graham
I'm lucky to be part of a team who help to make me look good, and they deserve as much of the credit for my success as I do for the hard work we have all put in on the training ground.
— Lionel Messi
Change can be frightening, and the temptation is often to resist it. But change almost always provides opportunities - to learn new things, to rethink tired processes, and to improve the way we work.
— Klaus Schwab
Be patient, work hard and consistently, have faith in your writing, and don't be afraid to listen to constructive criticism.
— Jonathan Galassi
The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before.
— Rafael Nadal
Our greatness has always come from people who expect nothing and take nothing for granted - folks who work hard for what they have, then reach back and help others after them.
— Michelle Obama
To realize the American dream, the most important thing to understand is that it belongs to everybody. It's a human dream. If you understand this and work very hard, it is possible.
— Cristina Saralegui
Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.
— Che Guevara
Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.
— Alex Rodriguez
I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.
— Alexander Hamilton
Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.
— Nikola Tesla
There is never just one thing that leads to success for anyone. I feel it always a combination of passion, dedication, hard work, and being in the right place at the right time.
— Lauren Conrad
I think our family motto is to always work hard, be humble, kind, and thoughtful about others around us.
— Anwar Hadid
Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. All these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and I will not let up until they get done.
— Barack Obama
The medical literature tells us that the most effective ways to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and many more problems are through healthy diet and exercise. Our bodies have evolved to move, yet we now use the energy in oil instead of muscles to do our work.
— David Suzuki
Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.
— Byron Dorgan
I'm not a 'sexy' 'beautiful' woman. It takes a lot of work to make me look like a girl.
— Megan Fox
To be happy, it first takes being comfortable being in your own shoes. The rest can work up from there.
— Sophia Bush
Work hard. Through determination and self-focus and discipline, you can accomplish anything.
— Kimberly Guilfoyle
It's good to test yourself and develop your talents and ambitions as fully as you can and achieve greater success; but I think success is the feeling you get from a job well done, and the key thing is to do the work.
— Peter Thiel
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.
— Pope John Paul II
I believe in stopping work and eating lunch.
— L'Wren Scott
Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I'm so not stylish by nature, but I've learned to work with what I have.
— Julie Bowen
Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
— Mother Teresa
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
— Nelson Mandela
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
— Plato
It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. I'd rather spend my energy smiling.
— Eric Davis
I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.
— Ayrton Senna
Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
— Ice Cube
Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
— Verne Troyer
I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.
— Michael Jordan
My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.
— Mark Warner
Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
— John D. Rockefeller
Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don't look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.
— Virat Kohli
Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.
— Walter Cronkite
If you work for it, you'll deserve what comes. Hard work.
— DeMar DeRozan
Find a good teacher that will keep the game fun. Work hard and don't be afraid to have success or disappointment. That is what golf is all about.
— Paula Creamer
I work so hard to make that sure I'm successful. If you're positive and really excited and enthusiastic about what you're doing, it's going to happen, and it's going to happen big time.
— Shawn Mendes
Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
— Ray Kroc
Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
— Og Mandino