Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

When you are handed something instead of having to work for it, you don't respect it as much.

I believe in blood, sweat and tears.

Mine is the horny hand of toil.

It is not human nature to enjoy what we get with no effort.

Anything acquired without effort, and without cost is generally unappreciated.

It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes.

Part of me believes that love is more valuable when you have to work for it.

Yes, confidence was knowing I could do anything. But, I realized, confidence must always be rooted in work. In sweat. In pain-good pain. And in honesty.

It's blood, sweat, sometimes tears.

What we are good at comes easy, and we believe that unless it comes hard, it can't be very good.

I don't believe in getting something for nothing.

I believe in the old and sound rule that an ounce of sweat will save a gallon of blood.

I make money from touring and selling merchandise, and I honestly believe if you put effort into something and you execute properly, you don't necessarily have to go through the traditional ways.

Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble.

There comes a point when you have to realize that the sum of all your blood, sweat, and tears will ultimately amount to zero.

Luck is a dividend of sweat.

Anything easy ain't worth a damn!

We wish that we could take magic drugs, play around all day, read, and do nothing strenuous, and be the smartest, happiest people in the world. The truth is, it's all about sweat.

I believe that India is such a big country that one must do as much work as possible. So I keep doing that.

Believe anything is possible and then work like hell to make it happen.

I'm spoiled in the sense that now I get what I want but it's because I work for it.

You shall find this to be God's usual course: not to give his children the taste of his delights till they begin to sweat in seeking after them.

I don't believe in talent. Talent doesn't exist.

I learned pretty quickly that it's your WORK ETHIC that LEVELS THE PLAYING FIELD. Education helps, but I've met failures who have Ph.D.s. I believe the hardest worker is always going to win.

Badness you can get easily, in quantity. The road is smooth and lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to do it, and rough at first. But when you come to the top, then it is easy, even though it is hard.