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“Don’t get caught up in the comparison game. Stay in your lane, work hard and let your work speak for you.”
“Work hard, be patient because it doesn’t work overnight. If you want to do it the right way, it won’t happen overnight.”
Keira Hewatch (born 1985) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Keira give advise in 2016
“You have to put work into becoming the best you can be at your craft. Practice, Work hard, pray hard.”
Sophie Alakija (born 1985) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is okay to worry that your work might not be good enough, it shows that you care about your art. But you can’t worry to the point where it paralyzes you and you’re not even creating at all. So create your work anyway. Make it the best that you can and put it out there, you just never know.”
Uzoamaka Aniunoh first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Uzoamaka give advise in 2023
“Be yourself. Do the work. Do YOUR work. Dig deep. Stay true. Create endlessly. Revel in your brilliance. Protect your heart. Flourish.”
Uzoamaka Aniunoh first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Uzoamaka give advise in 2017
“The idea of linear political struggles, which are confined to formal parliamentary politics, is a chimera. Protest, civil disobedience, local community work, care work, and bridge-building with other oppressed people are all politics: all will be necessary in our struggle.”
“self-interrogation is a special quality of anthropological work, one that we don’t see enough of in fiction. Sometimes in fiction, authors hide or erase the work and interrogation that they may have done to be able to write their novels. But in ethnography, we often include that interrogation within our texts. And to me, that’s an inspiring part of our storytelling.”
Ruth Behar (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Once leaders create a great place to work, they expect people to do great work.”
Liz Wiseman (born 1964) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: LIZ WISEMAN’S IMPACT PLAYERS: A LEADERSHIP FRAMEWORK FOR IMPACT Growth Faculty Learn (18 October 2022)
“Living life as an artist is a practice. You can engage in the practice or not. It makes no sense to say you're not good at it. It's like saying, "I'm not good at being a monk." You either live as a monk or not. We tend to think of the artist's work as the output. The artist's real work is a way of being in the world.”
Rick Rubin (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“These brave women, known as monitrices, are in their communities every day fighting childhood malnutrition. CNP is doing tremendous work in Haiti and their monitrices should be examples for other organizations in the world doing similar work,”
Dorothy Bush Koch (born 1959) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dorothy Bush Koch To Highlight Annual Chattanooga Benefit For CNP Of Haiti Chattanoogan (May 11, 2017)
“Leaders are sort of looking to move on,” she said. “There's been some great things that have happened – flexibility and remote work and more conversations around mental health in the workplace, destigmatizing burnout … huge investments made in mental health and wellbeing, but we're still feeling like they're not being actualized at work.”
Jennifer Moss (1945–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was so incredibly proud to work for Hillary. I love her. She’s been one of my heroes since I was a kid. But I also came to really respect and admire Obama, and so when she conceded I was really thrilled to be able to go work for him.”
Sarah Hurwitz (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We activists are not in the business of brokering power where expediency and compromise rule. Our business is to resist and expose the ugly face of power. We are guided and our work is informed by deeply held human values and causes. It seems to me that consistency of principles and commitment to humanity should inform all our work, thought, activism and advocacy.”
Issa G. Shivji (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A work is good or bad or mediocre, and that’s all. Neither the theme of the work nor the genre in which it’s written tell you anything. There are a lot of horrible SF stories and novels, those where the little green men with antennas appear and so, which are in fact trash. And then there are marvels like Ursula Le Guin, Philip K. Dick and others.”
Angélica Gorodischer (1928–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When it comes to protecting our community, we know there’s no finish line. The industry as a whole faces dynamic and ever-evolving challenges. We will always work to deploy our teams, tools, and resources to meet them and to demonstrate our hard work and transparency.”
Shou Zi Chew (born 1983) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew’s Prepared Comments Before Congress" in Forbes (23 March 2023)
“The Church is much appreciated by Mozambique because of its work of pacification in the country carried out in collaboration with the Community of Sant'Egidio. The Church continues to work to consolidate the culture of peace.”
Atanasio Amisse Canira (born 1962) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: PMS National Directors of Burkina Faso-Niger and Mozambique tell Fides about the “increasingly missionary character of the African Church” (20 May 2010) Fides News Agency
“I love to work. I passionately love to work. I love to feel my hand fit into the glove of some other character. I find a huge freedom — time stops for me. I’m not as crazy as I used to be, but I’m still a little crazy.”
Donald Sutherland (1935–2024) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview on the film Without Limits, on Charlie Rose (10 September 1998) [@12:08]
“There will be more work than chanting if you keep the knowledge that God exists in all situations and do all the work with the wisdom of serving God. If you can hold this spiritual wisdom.”
Santadas Kathiababa (1859–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Throughout this work, I asked questions that had not been asked, used then-cutting-edge quantitative research methods and established a new understanding of representation in American politics. This work was published in the nation’s top political science journals and spawned important research by other scholars.”
Claudine Gay (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Alone, i am nothing. i have nothing.we have power.but we will never know it,we will never see it work.unless we come together to make it work.”
Ayi Kwei Armah (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Alone I can nothing,I have nothing.we have power but we will never see it work,unless we choose to come together to make it work let us come together”
Ayi Kwei Armah (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Kike picks up her basket, sets it on her head, leaves it to balance by itself. The girls in our village learn how to do this from when they are first growing two teeth. They know how to use every part of their body to work so that their hand can be free to do even more work.”
“....the work of the spirit and the work of the field.”
Cheikh Hamidou Kane (1928–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Once I give you permission to work on any script of mine, then I leave you free to carry out your work the way you think best.”
Femi Osofisan (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How many of the celebrated works of Soyinka, Achebe, Clark, Amadi, Imam, Sofola, Ezeigbo, Obafemi have you seen on the screen? This is one of the factors that distinguishes the work of Kelani in fact-this aspect that he prefers to work with writers and published texts.”
Femi Osofisan (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There must always be connection to nation when we tell stories. Taking a pan-Indigenous approach doesn’t work. Taking a colonial viewpoint doesn’t work. This changes the narrative of specific nations and is highly problematic. It leads to misunderstanding, misrepresentation, and stereotypes.”
Cherie Dimaline (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What it takes, at least from my experience, to do excellent work is long hours (not a hardship for me, I love my work), persistence, the willingness to take risks, to accept criticism, to stand by what you think if upon consideration, you believe you’re right, even if no one else believes it, and to head out into unknown places.”
Pamela O. Long (born 1943) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in "How to Live Like a Genius in D.C.", Washington City Paper (September 22, 2014)
“I want Nigerians to work together. We should be able to surprise ourselves. Let’s work together. It is very straightforward. Regardless of party, regardless of whoever is there.”
“You create a work of art. You do not know whether it will get public sanction. Sometimes outstanding films do no business, and sometimes films which are not so good work.”
Dev Anand (1923–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Though we all day with care our work attend, Such is our fate, we know when ’twill end. When evening’s come, you homeward take your way. We, till our work is done, are forced to stay”
Mary Collier (1688–1762) first seen 1739 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Woman’s Labour (1739)
“handwork pays”. I remember singing that hard work pays, this is our motto. It made me understand that hard work pays because I had a very solid foundation.”
Evelyn Anite (born 1984) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Don’t leave yourselves in the hands of others. Work for yourself. Hard work pays. First of all is being focused, being determined and however small a job that you have is, even if it is not a permanent job take it seriously.”
Evelyn Anite (born 1984) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We all see more of architecture than of any other art. Every street is a gallery of architects’ work, and in most streets, whatever their age, there is good work and bad. Through these amusing shows many of us walk unperceivingly, all our days, like illiterates in a library, so richly does the fashionable education provide us with blind sides .”
Charles Edward Montague (1867–1928) first seen 1924 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Right Place (1924), quoted in Murphy, Edward F., The Crown Treasury of Relevant Quotations, Greenwich House, New York, 1978 (pg. 47-48).
“We are going to court; no 13 people are going anywhere to go and contest. EC has no power to elect the people they want to contest for this year. There were not there to tell Ghanaians what to do; they were there to just do their work and they have failed woefully to do that work.”
Janet Nabla wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Visual research is part of my practice, it is a methodology I use to inform and shape my work so it is, therefore, a primary language in my work.”
Mbali Dlamini wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My work engages with contrasts, visually and thematically. I think this is also one of the elements FIELDS picked up from my work. For the collaboration the use of high contrasting colours was key and using a design element that allowed the theme to play out in jacquard knit.”
Mbali Dlamini wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have called you to mobilise your support, to register employment opportunities with us through our Public Employment Services section and to conduct recruitment of these work seekers that are screened, assessed and prepared for work readiness, free of charge”
Boitumelo Moloi (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“By recognizing sex work as legitimate work, we can create an environment that empowers women and ensures their safety and well-being”
Poppy Mailola wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The fact that you can live anywhere you want, educate your child in any school, take part in any sport and work wherever your qualifications allow you to work”
Lyndall Shope-Mafole wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hon.Ayebare Margaret Rwebyambu: Implementation is not the work of the parliament, it is for you the NGOs and ministries of government. We need to work together to end teenage pregnancies.”
Margaret Rwebyambu wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was not excited, because I came here to set a pv that is what is on my mind. But I still thank God because this is my first time coming to an international competition like this. For making it to be fifth I know next year or any world championship later, I'm going to work hard. So I'm going to better my time and I'm going to work better than this...”
Tosin Adeloye (born 1996) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Making of Champs (Youtube) Tosin Adeloye NGR 400m Heats - IAAF 2015 Beijing World Championship 24th August 2025.
“writing is an art but it’s work. If you don’t value your work, who will? (2021)”
Rita Williams-Garcia (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Pursue research interests that drive and sustain your passions – but also look around you and consider the contexts in which you work and what your work might be doing at the level of ethics, politics and representation.”
Floretta Boonzaier (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's politically correct only to speak of those things that are subjective, only to speak of those things that you determine "work for you," they may not "work for me." We're in a prison with that. They want to break out of that prison that holds them bound. Once they know the truth – and the truth is Christ – that sets them free. And then their acts of freedom are rooted in Christ.”
John Michael Quinn (born 1945) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bishop sees new generation seeking truth, rejecting relativism (13 March 2012) Catholic News Agency
“Indeed, I feel great. I believe that this is a confirmation of hard work over the years. These Fellow awards do not come without hard work and recognition of your area of specialty over the years and I must say it has been God. I acknowledge unashamedly that I am what I am by the grace of God. If it was left to man, I would not have been able to achieve this much.”
Stella Ifeanyi Smith (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Gender inequality is a global phenomenon, and I am not immune to that. I think in my case, race played more than gender and when the two are combined, they have a compounded effect. However, I worked very hard to make these “two issues” be eclipsed by my skills, strong work ethics, delivery and a strong track record. It is possible to overcome these through hard work and excellence.”
Segenet Kelemu (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They should work hard and consistently. I believe strongly in putting a lot of time in what you do. They should not choose a career based on money, they should base their choice on passion. Yes, we need money to survive, but choose a career which will make you happy, fulfilled and challenged. That will make you want to wake up and go to work.”
Tebello Nyokong (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hard work is the rule of the game. As a woman you need to work twice as hard in a male dominated position. She continued, keep your eye on the ball and reach out to people for mentoring bearing in mind that people are looking up to you.”
Chinwe Nwogo Ezeani wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our students need to feel accepted and valued, we need to make sure that we work with them and not decide for them what this might mean in practice. Part of this work on belonging and inclusion is knowing who our students are. I need to know where they come from, their concerns, what inspires them, and their ambitions; therefore, I must create and align resources.”
Nazira Karodia (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Give God room to work and thrive in whichever environment or season you find yourself. In other words, make it work!”
Sope Willams Elegbe wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source