Quotes About Effort

I feel blessed to have an opportunity to try out for a second Olympics team and if it doesn't work out, hey I gave it my all.

To be really great, you need to be naturally funny in order to stand out. But you can work at it, and find the best vehicle that you have to communicate what you're saying to people.

It isn't working that's so hard, it's getting ready to work.

Creativity is a by-product of hard work. If I never have another really new idea, it won't matter.

If one wants to lead a good life, A HUMAN LIFE, one must work.

It is going to be tough if you look for the easy way out because very rarely is there an easy way out. There is nothing that replaces hard work.

Dig into almost every overnight success story and you'll find about a decade's worth of hard work and perseverance.

Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.

Work without joy is drudgery. Drudgery does not produce champions, nor does it produce great organizations.

If I wasn't so insecure about myself I wouldn't work as hard as I do. I am constantly seeking approval.

I'm not sure I ever pleased Ian [Buchanan] with my progress, but he continued to tolerate me. I had to work at everything that I did. Well, it wasn't work; it was fun actually.

Unless we put heart and soul into our labor we but brutify our actions.

I think you're only as good as the work that you do.

If your work is going to draw from life, you'd better work very hard to keep up with reality.

People of higher talent work, even if they seem to do nothing

It would seem to me that I was committing a theft if I were to let one day go by without doing some work.

Work! work! that is my unfailing cure for all troubles.

We, performers, work on willpower. This willpower works in a short term, not durational.

Artists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one's work.

Again Mariner and Butcher are trying to work the oracle on the near post

Shaking off restrictive chains requires action. They cannot be wished away. A declaration will never break chains. It requires commitment, self-discipline, and work.

[The writer] wants both to do the best possible work and also to reach the largest possible audience. The result is a fairly normal condition of discouragement.

I am invigorated by work, wasted by pleasure.

Work at first rescues us, then ravages us.