Sweat famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The oven became hotter and hotter, and Hansel began to sweat. Then a delicious smell wafted to his nostrils. Oh no! he thought. I'm cooking! He sniffed at the air. And I smell delicious!
-- Adam Gidwitz -
Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.
-- Alex Rodriguez -
If you find your life of prayer to be always so short, and so easy, and so spiritual, as to be without cost and strain and sweat to you, you may depend upon it, you have not yet begun to pray.
-- Alexander Whyte -
The hardest thing about being a full time chef is leaving my work behind when I go home at night. I'll toss and turn about a menu item or forget to order produce and wake up at 4 A.M. in a cold sweat over some artichokes.
-- Alexandra Guarnaschelli -
All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.
-- Alfred Douglas -
I don't want to be idolized, I just want to play. And to do that you have to run and sweat,
-- Alfredo Di Stefano -
When I got the paperwork for Superstars, and I saw they asked what size swimsuit I wear, I had a hot flash, nearly broke into cold sweats and hired a trainer immediately.
-- Ali Landry -
I'm addicted to a really tough workout. I like to be drenched in sweat when I'm done because I feel accomplished.
-- Alison Sweeney -
I just want to be in my sweats, walk my dog, watch TV and eat pizza.
-- America Ferrera -
I love to cook and really enjoy cleaning my house. People always tease me about getting a maid. My girlfriend tells me that they are only $40 and will do everything. But that is my time to unwind, put my hair in a ponytail, throw on sweats, and be myself.
-- Amy Weber -
I am Andrew Ryan, and I am here to ask you a question. Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? 'No,' says the man in Washington, 'it belongs to the poor.' 'No,' says the man in the Vatican, 'it belongs to God.' 'No,' says the man in Moscow, 'it belongs to everyone.' I rejected those answers. Instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose Rapture.
-- Andrew Ryan -
Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?
-- Andrew Ryan -
With the sweat of your brow. RapÂture can become your city as well.
-- Andrew Ryan -
If you want to take dance to an extra level, you have to be physically fit. You also have to put the years of work in. If there's no pain, there's no gain. You've got to sweat to improve.
-- Andrew Stone -
Dancing, as Fred Astaire said, is next to ditch-digging. You sweat and you slave and the audience doesn't think you have a brain in your head.
-- Ann Miller -
They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the pyramids for the Pharaohs and we're building for them yet.
-- Anna Louise Strong -
Now every mortal has pain and sweat is constant, but if there is anything dearer than being alive, it's dark to me. We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life. We know no other. The underworld's a blank and all the rest just fantasy.
-- Anne Carson -
My deepest belief is that to live as if we're dying can set us free. Dying people teach you to pay attention and to forgive and not to sweat the small things.
-- Anne Lamott -
I don't care what's probable. Through blood, sweat, and tears, I am unstoppable.
-- Anthony Robles -
Every soul who comes to earth with a leg or two at birth must wrestle his opponents knowing its not what is, but what can be that measures worth. Make it hard, just make it possible and through pain, I wont complain. My spirit is unconquerable. Fearless I will face each foe for I know I am capable. I don't care whats probable, through blood sweat and tears I am unstoppable.
-- Anthony Robles -
I believe in striving for excellence. I sweat the big and small stuff! I do not apologize for this.
-- Anthony S. Fauci -
Not every legend is a myth, some are flesh and blood. Some legends walk among us, but they aren’t born, they’re built. Legends are made from iron & sweat, mind and muscle, blood and vision and victory. Legends are champions, they grow, they win, they conquer. There’s a legend behind every legacy, there’s a blueprint behind every legend.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
A good sweat, with the blood punding through my body, makes me feel alive, revitalized. I gain a sense of mastery and assurance. I feel good about myself. Then I can feel good about others.
-- Arthur Dobrin -
i Believe In The Fire Of Love And The Sweat Of Truth
-- Assata Shakur -
Health is not a commodity to be bargained for. It has to be earned through sweat.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
Millions of our fellow human beings continue to live as contemporary slaves, victims of abominable practices like human trafficking, forced labour and sexual exploitation. Countless children are forced to become soldiers, work in sweat shops or are sold by desperate families. Women are brutalized and traded like commodities. Entire households and villages labour under debt bondage.
-- Ban Ki-moon -
I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.
-- Barack Obama -
It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
-- Barack Obama -
A champion is someone who sweats to exhaustion, even when no one else is watching
-- Bas Rutten -
A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.
-- Bas Rutten -
In the past, I had particularly loved her smell. She always smelled freshed, freshly washed or of freshed laundry or fresh sweat or freshly loved
-- Bernhard Schlink -
Regardless of your age or current physical condition you'll laugh, cry, moan, groan, sweat and experience the most exciting, hard working and effective therapeutic yoga routine in the world.
-- Bikram Choudhury -
You need a civil society... Bushfires can achieve the change from society to community. Bushfires can. Floods can. Ghastly crimes and disasters can. Places can change... but it takes blood, sweat and tears.
-- Bob Maguire -
Blood, sweat, tears. No practice tomorrow 'cause there's no one left to beat.
-- Bobby Orr -
It keeps you fit - the alcohol, nasty women, sweat on stage, bad food - it's all very good for you.
-- Bon Scott -
I don't lack confidence. I don't sweat. I don't want to get too Zen on you, but I have to run my own race.
-- Brad Grey -
The Motion Picture Association of America wipes the sweat off its brow and sings the PG-13 song.
-- Bradley Sands -
I like a hairy chest, I think that's really sexy. I'm not naked a lot oddly enough but I usually wear sweats, its very unsexy.
-- Brooklyn Decker -
I wanna be your t-shirt when it's wet, I wanna be your shower when you sweat.
-- Bryan Adams -
It's funny, I do try to maintain health. I started doing Bikram yoga which is that hothouse yoga, the 105 degrees yoga for 90 minutes. It's great, you purge out all the sweat and you're drinking water.
-- Bryan Cranston -
You need to sweat yourself. Don't sweat nobody else.
-- Busta Rhymes -
I'm constantly feeding my metabolism. But at the same time if I want to go one night and have a nice dinner then I won't sweat it the next day.
-- Cara Castronuova -
I'm kind of a nervous person in general. I'm socially awkward. I'm not tall and sensuous. I usually wear sweats everywhere I go. Oh, and I burp a lot.
-- Carrie Underwood -
She felt dirty all over and looking over Sebastian, sweat on his brow and his naked torso barely covered by the sheets, she had to swallow back bile at what she'd just done.
-- Cassandra Clare -
your concert-goer, though he feed upon symphony as a lamb upon milk, is no true lover if he play no instrument. Your true lover does more than admire the muse; he sweats a little in her service.
-- Catherine Drinker Bowen -
Our very lives are dependent, for sustenance, on the sweat and sacrifice of the campesinos. Children of farm workers should be as proud of their parents' professions as other children are of theirs.
-- Cesar Chavez -
You learn to be comfortable in your own skin, and your body changes throughout life, so you can't sweat the small stuff.
-- Chanel Iman -
How can it be "mutually beneficial" to sell at world market prices the raw materials that cost the underdeveloped countries immeasurable sweat and suffering.
-- Che Guevara -
Relaxing your hair is like being in prison. You're caged in. Your hair rules you. You didn't go running with Curt today because you don't want to sweat out this straightness. You're always battling to make your hair do what it wasn't meant to do.
-- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -
Sweat the small stuff. Without letting anyone see you sweat.
-- Chris Hadfield -
Fashion isn't interesting when it comes from an uninspired place. It's like voodoo; we don't want things that are soaked in blood, sweat, and tears. I adore life, and I'm very easygoing - and it shows in my work.
-- Christian Louboutin -
Whatever luck I had, I made. I was never a natural athlete, but I paid my dues in sweat and concentration and took the time necessary to learn karate and become world champion.
-- Chuck Norris -
Let us embrace Science and the new technologies unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease, death and the sweat of labor.
-- Claude Vorilhon -
I love wearing flat shoes, but I am not one of those girls who walks around in sweat pants and sneakers.
-- Claudia Schiffer -
Because if the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you’ll never become that person.
-- Clayton Christensen -
Painting is a lot harder than pickin' cotton. Cotton's right there for you to pull off the stalk, but to paint, you got to sweat your mind.
-- Clementine Hunter -
My life is the direct product, if you will, of the legacy of the blood, sweat and tears of the NAACP and so today I'm particularly mindful that the NAACP has made America what it is, and certainly made my life possible and we are all grateful heirs of that legacy.
-- Cornell William Brooks -
The lack of sweat to get a win is probably a record for me.
-- Curtis Joseph -
The cosmos doesn’t measure sweat and hours for reward. The cosmos deals in the currencies of joy and satisfaction.
-- Danielle LaPorte -
Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back of beyond. It was just a series of small tin sheds.
-- David Attenborough -
In prayer I was exceedingly enlarged, and my soul was as much drawn out as I ever remember it to have been in my life. I was in such anguish, and pleaded with so much earnestness and importunity, that when I rose from my knees I felt extremely weak and overcome; I could scarce walk straight; my joints were loosed; the sweat ran down my face and body; and nature seemed as if it would dissolve....
-- David Brainerd -
It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood.
-- David Hume -
I don't even drink Coke. It tastes like robot sweat.
-- David Rees -
My conscience is crosswired with my sweat glands, but there's a short in the system and I break out over things I didn't do, which only makes me look more suspect.
-- David Sedaris -
We can't afford to waste tears on might-have-beens. We need to turn the tears into sweat that can take us to what can be.
-- Denis Waitley -
Life is often more a sweat than a pleasure but, paradoxically, it is the sweat that gives true meaning to all of life's pleasures. This is the message from Mack Bolan, book after book, and it is the only thing dignifying this type of fiction.
-- Don Pendleton -
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.
-- Duff McKagan -
When I train, I'm peeled away. I'm at my rawest state. Generally there's spit coming out my mouth, sweat pouring out my body and every once in awhile I may have just finished throwing up. Those are pretty good indications that it's not time to talk and you should just pass me by.
-- Dwayne Johnson -
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower -
I'm an athlete, so I can dress down with the best of them. I can throw on t-shirts and sweats with the best of them.
-- Dwyane Wade -
You may batter your way through the thick of the fray, You may sweat, you may swear, you may grunt; You may be a jack-fool, if you must, but this rule Should ever be kept at the front;-- Don't fight with your pillow, but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed.
-- Edmund Vance Cooke -
Why not make the work easier and more interesting so that people do not have to sweat? The Toyota style is not to create results by working hard. It is a system that says there is no limit to people’s creativity. People don’t go to Toyota to ‘work’ they go there to ‘think’
-- Eliyahu M. Goldratt -
I don't want anyone to get seriously hurt. But I do watch awards shows to critique the clothes while I sit around eating chips in my sweat pants and in hopes of seeing some hilarious accidental nudity.
-- Eliza Coupe -
After shows my face feels dirty with makeup and sweat, especially in the smaller venues, so it feels good to get back to the bus and smooth it away. Sometimes you need something alcohol-based, especially on tour when you don't always get a chance to keep washing your face all the time.
-- Ellie Goulding -
Theres so many fish in the sea That only rise up in the sweat and smoke like mercury
-- Elvis Costello -
Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
-- Eric Hoffer -
It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.
-- Ernest Hemingway -
The air is annoyingly potted with a multitude of minor vertical disturbances which sicken the passengers and keep us captives of our seat belts. We sweat in the cockpit, though much of the time we fly with the side windows open. The airplanes smell of hot oil and simmering aluminum, disinfectant, feces, leather, and puke ... the stewardesses, short-tempered and reeking of vomit, come forward as often as they can for what is a breath of comparatively fresh air.
-- Ernest K. Gann -
Sweat saves blood, blood saves lives, but brains saves both.
-- Erwin Rommel -
I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow.
-- Ethel Waters -
Isn't success ridiculously easy, once it begins to succeed? ... after the strain and sweat and pushing until the very groins of your being shrieked protest, something like momentum happened. It took your wits and your concentration and your continued willing sweat, of course, to keep it going, but the success of success had ball bearings.
-- Fannie Hurst -
Tears have the value of gold on the scales of the human heart' and the weights do not ask whether it is found or stolen gold, or whether you had to sweat in the digging.
-- Ferenc Molnar -
There are two rules in life: Rule #1: Don't sweat the small stuff. Rule #2: Everything is small stuff.
-- Finn Taylor -
Pleasures bring effeminacy, and effeminacy foreruns ruin; such conquests, without blood or sweat, sufficiently do revenge themselves upon their intemperate conquerors.
-- Francis Quarles -
For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it.
-- Frank Gehry -
Happy people learn that happiness, like sweat, is a by-product of activity.
-- Frank Pittman -
Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt -
What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due exacted by every good book from its author, even if he knows from the beginning exactly what he wants to say. A limpid style is invariably the result of hard labour, and the easily flowing connection of sentence with sentence and paragraph with paragraph has always been won by the sweat of the brow.
-- G. M. Trevelyan