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Quotes About Effort

Nothing is hard for lovers, no labor is difficult for those who wish it.
~ St. Jerome
We exhaust ourselves more from the tension and the consequences of internal disharmony than from hard, unremitting work.
~ Stephen Covey
One who works twice as hard will have four times as much accomplishment. If he works 3 times as hard he will have 9 times as much accomplishment and 9 times more fun in the process.
~ Sterling W Sill
Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.
~ Steven Pressfield
Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that.
~ Sue Grafton
A good friend is one of the hardest things to keep in this life. Don't forget that sometimes you have to work at it.
~ Suzanne LaFleur
Inspiration is a joke, real artists sit down and work
~ Unknown
I've really learned to compartmentalize the different parts of my life. I work really hard.
~ Terrence J
Where our joy is, there should our work be.
~ Tertullian
Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.
~ Thomas Carlyle
The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.
~ Thomas Carlyle
There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.
~ Thomas Carlyle
The only way you're going to get something to last in this world is to work at it
~ Tim Tharp
I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work.
~ Toby Young
Often, the things that a lot of work has gone into have been incredibly bad because they're over-worked.
~ Tom Hodgkinson
Why should I pay the bums all that good folding money and then go out and do all the work myself?
~ Unknown
My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.
~ Val Kilmer
Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.
~ Voltaire
Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace.
~ Walter Scott
Do more than dream. Work.
~ William Arthur Ward
The hardest job of all is trying to look busy when you're not.
~ William Feather
I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.
~ William Shatner
I believe that good things come to those who work.
~ Wilt Chamberlain
I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.
~ Yani Tseng