Fannie Lou Hamer Quotes

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

There are two kinds of horses; there are show horses, and there are work horses, and you've got to decide in the United States Senate whether you want to be a show horse or a work horse.

I wear the Argentina jersey with all the values I learned from my home and growing through football.

I'm not clever. But I am level-headed, hard-working, dogged.

I'm not a guy who will budge off how I feel about my work.

A lot of people think that success is luck and being in the right place at the right time. But I think if you’re willing to work harder than anybody else, you can create an awful lot of your own luck.

I have a real worker-bee mentality. Just show up, just do it. Even if you feel like s--t and you think you're terrible and you'll never get better and it will never go anywhere, just show up and do it. And, eventually, something happens.

I think you can have it all, you just have to work really hard because great things don't come easily.

The competition, the naysayers, the owners who talk too much. The people who don't think a 36-year-old can do what I do. I take a lot of pride in my craft, I work really hard at my craft everyday, and I'm a true professional.

I think for any director, male or female, it would be just to be prepared, work hard, and not give up! As my agent once told me, it's all about stamina before you ever end up on set!

You make up your mind before you start that sacrifice is part of the package.

Nothing comes easy. I know that people joke all the time and try to figure out, you know, what it is that I do, but I work really hard. I get up every day at 5 a.m. and start my day. I think as long as you work really hard and figure out what you want to do and stay motivated and have a plan and stay committed - just don't be lazy. That's my best advice. It's the most simple advice, but it really worked for me. I think that for some reason, I see people that think things will come easy and it doesn't really come easy.

Once you have made up your mind, stick to it; there is no longer any 'if' or 'but'.

The way is open to everybody who has the will, the ambition, the respect for work, and the IT.

When you once get an idea in which you believe with all your heart, work it out.

It is the weak man who urges compromise - never the strong man.

Luck is a dividend of sweat.

It takes long practice, yes. You have to work. Did you think you could snap your fingers, and have it as a gift? What is worth having is worth working for.

Strong reasons make strong actions.

If you work it will lead to something. It's the people who do all of the work all the time who eventually catch on to things.

I want to be with people who submerge in the task, who go into the fields to harvest and work in a row and pass the bags along, who are not parlor generals and field deserters but move in a common rhythm when the food must come in or the fire be put out. The work of the world is common as mud. Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust. But the thing worth doing well done has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.

If you stick to your work it will take care of you somehow.

I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent. And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working. While the other guy's eatin'? I'm working. While the other guy's making love, I mean, I'm making love, too. But I'm working really hard at it.

Put your head down and work hard. Never wait for things to happen, make them happen for yourself through hard graft and not giving up.

Drive will take you much farther than talent ever could.