It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

The opportunities of America opened out to me the public schools. They carried me to the professional training of an American university. I began by working with my own hands for my daily bread.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

I’m always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.

I knew early on that I wanted to entertain in some form. And I knew I would work as hard as anyone to do it.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

For me, education has never been simply a policy issue – it’s personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.

I am a grafter.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

The Green Revolution focused on the big three – maize, rice and wheat – and the Green Revolution did not adapt the big three to African conditions, other than South Africa, as much as they should have.

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.

My early business ventures included growing Christmas trees and breeding birds.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

There’s an inherent danger in letting people think that they have perfected something. When they believe they’ve ‚nailed it,‘ most people tend to sit back and rest on their laurels while countless others will be labouring furiously to better their work!

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

See, winners embrace hard work.

I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I’m not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

Nothing will work unless you do.

It’s true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Over a 10-year period, 99 out of 100 new entrepreneurs will fail. Only one will be left standing as others get pushed out of the market or burn out from working so hard. It’s really sad.

If anyone remembers me, it’s about my hard work.

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.

Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, it was a place of adventure and daily discoveries – the wonder of the growing crops, the excitements of the harvest, the journeys to the woods for nuts and hunting, the joys of snowy winters, the comfort of the family fireside, of good food and tender care.

Do I have chocolate chip cookies? Yes, I do. Do I have mint chocolate chip milkshakes? Yes, I do. I love them. They are fantastic. But when I have them, they’re worth it. I earned them. I did something. I worked out super hard. I stayed clean on food.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

I have to work really hard to get the record deal – I have to spend years at it to get good. I have to practice to be good at guitar.

It doesn’t matter who you are – if you dream big and if you work really hard, you can achieve unimaginable results, and that’s really good for the nation.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.

My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing machine, a typewriter and a suitcase, and my mother made $17 a week working as a maid 12 hours a day, and she did that for me.

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

I’d be so bored if I wasn’t going out there, knowing that I could still do it. So, I’m going to work hard to be ready to go, and I still plan on playing for a long time.

My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it’s not even a contact sport – it’s a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns.

If you are surrounded by your competition and you are outworking these people, outmaneuvering these people, it’s hard not to let your confidence take over. It just builds and builds and builds.