It seems we always exceed even our own expectations-after a lot of hard work, though!
I'm a Ronald Reagan conservative, I'm an economic conservative, I'm strong military. But I also voice and speak and work hard on the social issues.
I am not the greatest actor in the world, but the reason I keep working is that I work hard and show up every day and be easy to work with.
Artistry is important. Skill, hard work, rewriting, editing, and careful, careful craft: All of these are necessary. These are what separate the beginners from experienced artists.
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
I'm a realist, not a sugar coater. I believe in always letting people know what their obstacles are. And at the end of the day, I just want to be respected for my hard work.
I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.
The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
We have to fight twice as hard, three times as hard - not only as conservatives, but frankly, as women - to have our voices heard.
At a round table there is no dispute about place.
Don't spoil a cool place under the hospitable tree.
Birds of a color fly to the same place.
The place of an uninvited guest is behind the door.
I've always resented the smug statements of politicians, media commentators, corporate executives who talked of how, in America, if you worked hard you would become rich. The meaning of that was if you were poor it was because you hadn't worked hard ...
When people say "Oh wow, you're so lucky" ... I always wonder how they define luck. I can assure you people don't achieve their dreams because their lucky; they work day and night, with little sleep, investing their own money and working extremely ha...
He that doesn't know his bed is too hard sleeps well.
Only the man who is not hungry says the coconut has a hard shell.
It's easy to throw something into the river but hard to get it out again.
When a twig grows hard it is difficult to twist it. Every beginning is weak.
The hard road turns the traveller into the same dust that he has to swallow.
No matter how hard you try the bull will never give milk.
