Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect.
I'm enthusiastic and ambitious, and I work hard.
Work hard and never make excuses.
There is no substitute for hard work.
I work hard, but in spurts.
Maybe home is something we have to make, and remake, over and over. But it's hard to make things when you're afraid―or you're certain—that they'll just be broken.
But there is one cool thing about having a weirdo mother. She works so hard at remembering where she left herself she doesn’t have time to work on me.
Waiting and hoping is a hard thing to do when you've already been waiting and hoping for almost as long as you can bear it.
Time doesn't run backward, you know, and things that have been done can't be undone, no matter how hard you wish.
I got hard and he was there and the next thing I knew he was on his knees. I mean, I was going to step away, but he me.
The really important thing to be was yourself, just as hard as you could.
You're very lucky... Friends are precious, powerful things - hard to earn, harder still to keep. You should thank this one for taking a chance on you.
When it comes to raising civilized kids there are no hard rules, but there are two things on which most parents agree: Boys are generally wilder than girls, and adolescents are wilder than kids of any other age. If you've got an adolescent boy, you'r...
But one of the hardest things for me to do was to access anger. I could do it on stage. But when I did it on film it was hard for me. That probably has to do with the intimacy of film. And my own personal issues with expressing anger. So I had to lea...
Joel, lad, school is about learning to learn. If you don't practice studying things you don't like, then you'll have a very hard time in life.
Again I resume the long lesson: how small a thing can be pleasing, how little in this hard world it takes to satisfy the mind and bring it to its rest.
A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue.
It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.
Well, it is in fact possible to put things behind you, Rakel. The art of dealing with ghosts is to dare to look at them long and hard until you know that is what they are. Ghosts. Lifeless, powerless ghosts.
To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
It's very hard to keep personal prejudice out of a thing like this. And no matter where you run into it, prejudice obscures the truth.