Quotes About Effort

Do any of us know how we're actually doing? Whether or not all the hard work and good intentions are paying off?

No matter how big you are in the business, at the end of the day it's still work.

I've only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.

Staying focused is hard work and staying married is even harder.

Have you ever noticed that even if God allows you to have a dream, you're expected to work to make it happen?

There is nothing more important than hard work.

I'll do anything usually if there's money involved and little work.

If your hand doesn't work for it, your heart doesn't feel sorry for it.

Like everyone else, I try to do quality work with great directors. But much of it has to do with luck.

There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done.

The films I've made for children have been my hardest work, my best, because kids deserve the best.

To see that people appreciate the work that I put in to make these songs for them, that's what makes me care. I don't care about being Fetty Wap.

Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.

Joy is something that we have to choose and then work for.

When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.

Without labor there is neither wealth, nor comfort, nor progress.

Putting 100 percent into your life, your work, or sport, doesn't give you the right to expect success at whatever you are trying to do - it just provides the opportunity.

Average is a failing plan! Average doesn't work in any area of life. Anything that you give only average amounts of attention to will start to subside and will eventually cease to exist.

An idea is a curious thing. It will not work unless you do.

There is no substitute for hard work when it comes to achieving success.

The man who does not betake himself at once and desperately to sawing is called a loafer, though he may be knocking at the doors of heaven all the while.

If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.

Hating hard work can get to be such an obsession that you won't let it pile up.

I think I work as hard as I do now, because of a lot of lessons I've learned early on.