Hard work goes a long way
March 28, 2009 by admin
Filed under Getting Ahead
azkoolch asked:
What that saying, hard work goes a long way or something like that? Anyone know?
Best Answer:
I don’t know if any of these are the exact quote or saying you’re looking for, but they are all pretty good. I got all but the first one at quotegarden.com
“Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted”. David Bly
All the so-called “secrets of success” will not work unless you do. ~Author Unknown
You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Author Unknown
Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more. ~Edward H. Harriman
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. ~J.G. Holland
The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest; and once the goal is reached it has no meaning. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert
I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. ~Thomas Jefferson
Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966
I’ve got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end. ~Larry Bird
The difference between try and triumph is a little umph. ~Author Unknown
Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers. ~Author Unknown
No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ~Thomas Edison
Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm. ~Sidney J. Phillips
The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves. ~Garth Henrichs
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. ~Attributed to both Vidal Sassoon and Donald Kendall
Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat. ~Ann Landers
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work. ~George Bernard Shaw
Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. ~Swami Sivananda
Now I know, a refuge never grows
from a chin in the hand and a thoughtful pose
Gotta tend the earth if you want a rose.
~Indigo Girls
There’s nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway. ~Mark Burnett
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all. ~Sam Ewing
Some people dream of success… while others wake up and work hard at it. ~Author Unknown