The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work.

When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them.

You may be sorry that you spoke, sorry you stayed or went, sorry you won or lost, sorry so much was spent. But as you go through life, you'll find - you're never sorry you were kind.

If you are ignorant, you certainly can get into some interesting arguments.

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

You never have to know all the answers because you won't be asked all the questions.

There is a time when we must firmly choose the course which we will follow or the endless drift of events will make the decision for us.

The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.

The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work.

When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people.

Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.

You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.

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

Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.

This acting was very hard work.

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

You can browse to your heart's content but it's hard work and not easy on the feet unless you do it through catalogs or the Internet, and I like to touch and try on the things I buy.

It's got too much hard work slapping them and telling them to shut up.

The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work.

The nature of the task needs to be renewed so people just don't feel that all the hard work is in the same groove all the time, under the same circumstances and in the same environment.

If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.

Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.

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

I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems.

I do enjoy making videos, even though they are long days and very hard work.

I love what I'm doing most of the time, but it's hard work. People only see your albums in the charts. They see us at award shows and after-show parties. They don't know about your doubts, the hard work that goes in.

I think that with a lot of hard work and dedication, I feel that I could be the best in the world. I'm still only 35 years old... I have a fresh start physically and mentally, and I feel that I can achieve my goal to be the best again.

My brother Larry. He taught me how hard work and dedication to the game was the only way to make it. He's taken care of all my business activities for me and my family for many years, and I thank him for that.

Getting in shape for this role, which is incredibly demanding, vocally, has been a lot of hard work, but I'm nailing it. I'm even kind of, at times, blowing my own mind, because I am even able to talk right now.

After two years of hard work and debate, Congress has passed a highway bill that will help fuel our economy by creating roughly 500,000 new jobs, as well as address many critical transportation needs in Ohio and the 18th Congressional District.

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.

My hard work and excellent training entitled me to be a better actress than some of my competitors.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

But sometimes in the midst of worry, anxiety and hard work, it has been pretty hard to bear all these false reports going about the country - to see my friends alienated and being made to believe things that were absolutely false.

I have had so many great moments, but I would have to say that dancing the Swan in 'Swan Lake' was such a unique and passionate experience for me. It was such bloody hard work, even at that very early age, that I would not want to try to replicate it again now.

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.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

No, I don't believe in hard work. If something is hard, leave it. Let it come to you. Let it happen.

I got a nomination for director, which means the world to me; it's just the most exciting thing for me and my family. You do the good hard work, and the rest of it is something you shouldn't get too caught up in, but when it happens - boy! I respect it.

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.

Acting is really scary, but it's also challenging, fun, hard work. There's always an element of improvisation with every actor, even when something is really scripted.

Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers.

There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.

The March on Washington was a culmination of years of hard work and dedication of many individuals.

But everything has been so gradual that it's sort of all come from, just hard work and basically being at it.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Well if done a lot of hard work to try and get people to act rationally, the fact that weve had 15 deviant Muslims, plus 5 or 8 others that got away does not mean that all Muslims are deviant or extremists.

Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

It's hard work to make a four-minute program look effortless and elegant.