Quotes About Effort

I'm not always successful. But I try to treat the people the way I want to be treated. I really try to keep that in mind, but it doesn't always work.

Debates require a lot of hard work and preparation. If you try to wing it, it shows.

The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it; the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more money you will make.

Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too.

Work divided is in that manner shortened.

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.

Sometimes we come up with something great, but a lot of times it just feels like work.

We honor life when we work. The type of work is not important: the fact of work is. All work feeds the soul if it is honest and done to the best of our abilities and if it brings joy to others.

One of the ideas I've clung to most of my life is that if I just try hard enough it will work out.

Whatever God gave you, you have to work that to your best ability - especially out here in Hollywood, the land of beautiful people.

If you don't back it up with performance and hard work, talking doesn't mean a thing.

I wasn't really a work conscious type of person.

You can't just sit around in leopard-print slippers and drink champagne all day and think everything's gonna work out somehow.

We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.

I feel like the same person, but I feel as if I need to work twice as much now.

The germ of an idea doesn't make the sculpture that stands up... so the next stage is hard work

My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

An opportunity to work is good luck for me. I put my soul into it. Each such opportunity opens the gates for the next one.

You keep plugging away--that's the way social change takes place. That's the way every social change in history has taken place: by a lot of people, who nobody ever heard of, doing work.

I do all the work so it's only right that I should get the most money. Plus I am the most handsome.

I know that, in hockey, the object of the game is simple in that you have to get the puck into the net. With figure skating, it's not as simple, and there is a ton of work that goes into it.

Happiness and work rose up together with the sun, radiant like it.

The saying, "Practice is everything," is Periander's.