Harry Golden - The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Robert Griffin II - Hard work pays off - hard work beats talent any day, but if you're talented and work hard, it's hard to be beat.

Robert Half - Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.

Newt Gingrich - Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

Iain Duncan Smith - Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.

Gennaro Gattuso - Respect and consistency, as hard work during the week is the only way to earn your place.

Tom Freston - Only true love can fuel the hard work that awaits you.

Peter Drucker - Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Shannon Sharpe - A lot of people mistake habit for hard work. Doing something over and over again is not working hard.

Margaret Mead - I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

Will Rogers - There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.

Josh Billings - A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

Gilbert K. Chesterton - The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the man makes for himself and by himself.

Morrie Schwartz - Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.

Nicholas Sparks — “True love is rare, and it’s the only thing that gives life real meaning.”