Quotes About Effort

Destruction is the work of an afternoon. Creation is the work of a lifetime.

A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.

Who works for glory misses oft the goal; Who works for money coins his very soul Work for the work's sake, then, and it may be, That this thing shall be added unto thee.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to put the work in!!

The world must become aware of the fantastic transformational power of social entrepreneurship and the Foundation will work as a catalyst in this effort.

Everybody shut up. Let us work.

Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure.

The Tao of the sage is work without effort.

If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.

Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more.

To put a lot of hard work and effort into a project or character and for it to be recognised, how can it not be nice?

I think it's great that they are getting funding, but it's just too easy. They don't have to work for it. We did it because we had pride, because we loved it.

Maybe I have to work a bit harder on clay. It's a challenge and I've always liked challenges. Whether I will ever win the French and master playing on clay, who knows? But I'll give it a shot.

The more one works, the more willing one is to work.

Hard work always wins in the end.

Everyone wants to be strong and self sufficient, but few are willing to put in the work necessary to achieve worthy goals.

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig.

People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work.

If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing twice.

I have come finally to a simple philosophy of work. I enjoy what I do and do the best I can. That is enough.

Sometimes when you're putting the work in it just seems so, so hard, and you never know when that work's going to pay off.

Don't wait for, expect, or rely on favors. Count on earning them by hard work and perseverance.

The insignificant labor, the great create.

I try not to have expectations because they can tend to tear you apart. I expect to work as hard as I can possibly work and I expect to give every ounce of a hundred percent.