Quotes About Effort

The early masters also introduced walking meditation and hard work to the monastery, for too much sitting could reach the point of diminishing returns.

What I am suggesting is hard work and it can be slow work, but the rewards are well worth it.

Writing is hard. I learned how to work hard from wrestling, not English courses.

Pacifism simply is not a matter of calm looking on; it is work, hard work.

I like to prepare as much as possible beforehand, but there's definitely that element of fear when you're on set, and you have to be conscious of it and use that fear to drive you to work harder.

Very few things which are really worth achieving come easily. Sometimes they do, but most of the time you really have to work hard and cleverly.

So, I certainly subscribe to what Bette said about acting being very hard work.

I just go out every day and try to work hard.

You may not do well, necessarily, up front, and in order to be the best, you've got to work hard.

I want to encourage people to not think in terms of gifts, but think in terms of, wow. You work hard to succeed at that, because that's exactly what I do.

If you love music and you are good in it, you will be fine. But be prepared to have to work hard.

Do not falter or shrink; But just think out your work, And just work out your think.

I like explaining things, and I believe that you can do very high-level explanation on basic cable news provided you are willing to work hard enough to be a good storyteller.

I am suggesting to you the simple idea that people work harder and smarter if they find their work satisfying and know that it is appreciated.

Some of us just have to work harder to stay in the game.

In case the rest of you missed it, the inspirational speech was: 'If you work hard, you can achieve great things. And then you die'.

I work hard and I play hard, too. There is nothing wrong with that.

Success brings poise, especially avoirdupois. Success comes before work only in the dictionary.

It's not the increasing competition; it's going back to real work that most of us complain about.

I think work begets work.

I am a firm believer that you can have the body you want, only to the extent that you're willing to work for it.

What I respect in people more than anything is work ethic. And Justin Timberlake's got that. He works his tail off, and he knows his stuff.

You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.

Good work instead of long prayers.