It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

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

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

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.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

I don’t believe you could be a 39-year-old quarterback in the NFL and eat cheeseburgers every day. I want to be able to do what I love to do for a long time.

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

Nothing will work unless you do.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

A lot of critics object to what I do, but I got into comedy to make people laugh, and I’ve always worked hard.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

To be recognized for the hard work my team and I put into ‚Starboy‘ is an honor.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

I work hard to be able to set myself apart from everything else that’s going on in the trap genre.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I’ll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master… it’s when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.

I’ve always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

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 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.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

I don’t care about age. Nor do I care about those who do not accept the science. I don’t have as much experience, and therefore I listen more. But I also have the right to express my opinion, no matter my age.

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

‚Perfection‘ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‚I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.‘ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.

The real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

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.

I worked my face off.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.

It’s really hard to guarantee things in life. I guarantee if you get up in the morning and you work out, and you work hard, you will have a better day – 100% guaranteed.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.

Prime time for men is, say, 35 to 45. Then they level off and fall off.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

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.

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

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.

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

When you’re one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.

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.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

In college, I think I probably positioned myself as an aspiring writer, meaning I dressed sort of extravagantly and adopted all the semi-Byronic affectations, as if I were writing, although I wasn’t actually doing any writing.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.