I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.
My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important. Achievement was something which came by hard work.
For me, it is important to win titles and for that I need to work hard, stay healthy and be able to compete. The rest, I always say, it comes.
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.
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.
I'm going to take off your gag.And if you try to bite me or grab me or anything, I'll hit you with this thing as hard as I can as many times as I can. Understood?"- Tana to Gavriel, page 20 chapter 3
