Quotes About Effort

I'm going to go out Monday through Friday and work hard and try to help this team win, because God knows we need a win.

The reward of a work is to have produced it; the reward of effort is to have grown by it.

I always thought that I was lazy because I could never tell if I was working or not. I was making things, which doesn't seem like work.

All the work you do, is done for your own salvation, is done for your own benefit.

When you work for something, you appreciate it more. So what are y'all going to do with all the opportunities you inherited that you didn't have to work for?

90% of the work in this country is done by people who don't feel good".

There is no subsitute for hard work.

I wasn't the brightest kid, not by a long shot. I was interested in football, in girls, in getting my work done with the least amount of effort.

Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.

My dad always told me to play hard and know that the people you're competing with and against are working just as hard or harder. So don't let them out-work you.

This obstinate will to personal happiness is the cause of unrest and division in your soul. Give it up and work against it: the rest will be given you without effort.

Even with God's help there is no substitute for the hard work.

Only those who do not work do not make mistakes.

There are probably guys who could be superstars but aren't because they didn't work at it.

I have worked like a galley slave throughout these eight years, morning till night, and I have given all I could to this work. I am happy with the results.

Does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?

O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavor be so loved, and the performance so loathed?

There's only one way to work -- like hell.

You will not be stuck forever. The trick is to know there are no tricks. There is, in fact, no easy way. There is only the work.

Never reject an idea, dream or goal because it will be hard work. Success rarely comes without it.

Whatever success people have in a field, it's a result of hard work. If you ultimately succeed in one place, you must have worked hard there or somewhere else.

Love is dangerous, if you know it's dangerous, that makes you treasure it, and you'll work harder to keep it.

If you go out with a girl and they say she has a great personality, she's ugly. If they tell you a guy works hard, he can't play a lick. Same thing.

"Proper work" usually involves performing a task you hate on behalf of people you'd gleefully club to death with a bull's knee if only it were legal to do so.