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The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
Sep 10, 2025
Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.
Hard work pays off - hard work beats talent any day, but if you're talented and work hard, it's hard to be beat.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
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.
Hard work opens doors and shows the world that you are serious about being one of those rare - and special - human beings that uses the fullness of their talents for the highest and the very best.
Staying focused is hard work and staying married is even harder.
I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.
Focused, hard work is the real key to success.
If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.
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.
Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.
I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.
Hard work is the price we must pay for success
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.
What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
I see light at the end of the tunnel.
Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.
I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.
There were high school coaches such as Charles Boston that took me under his wing and taught me the fundamentals of football. And when I went to college there was Robert Hill who took me there and he showed me what hard work and determination would do if you put forth the effort and you take a little time.
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work.
There is no substitute for hard work.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard.
Leaders aren't born they are made.
Leaders are not born, they're made.
Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
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.
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes a lot of hard work.
A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
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.
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
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.
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.
I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.