Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

It is said that good things come to those who wait. I believe that good things come to those who work.

Just enough sense to stick with something-a chore, task, project, until its completed pays off much better than idle intelligence, even if idle intelligence be of genius caliber.

Very few people get into that category of being a good grafter.

There is absolutely nothing that beats hard work.

It doesn't take talent to work hard.

Just because you're not sweating doesn't mean you're not putting in the work.

No one has come up with a substitute for hard work.

Working hard is not always fun - that's why it is called work.

No man ever was glorious, who was not laborious.

The common denominator for success is work.

Effort is grossly underrated.

Applause abates diligence.

Talent without work is useless, thank God

I like hard work. I like putting the effort towards it and then being able to look at it and go, "All right, I did that."

The true success is to labour.

There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it.

Hell itself must yield to industry.

If it ought to be done, then apply yourself to it strenuously

Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.

I worked as hard as I could. I was always the first one on the ice, and the last one off.

Success travels in the company of very hard work. There is no trick, no easy way.

I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.

There is no shortcut to achievement.

It doesn't take any talent to play hard.

Without the work, the magic won’t come.