Quotes About Effort

A relationship is like another job, you know, you have to work at it all the time.

Work is an almost pure expression of the self.

The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.

Day's work is still to do, Whatever the day's doom.

You want it? Work for it.

Hard work never killed a man. Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work.

Like physical work, if you don't practice, you shouldn't expect results.

That's why they call it work, because it's not what you'd prefer to do with your free time.

You can't get work without working.

The love you liberate in your work is the love you keep.

Most of the work that's done in the world gets done by people who weren't feeling all that well at the time that they did it.

There's nothing like work to take your mind off your worries.

Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.

I would be so exhausted by my determination that I had no strength left to do the actual work.

Work is work if you're paid to do it, and it's a pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it.

I never understand how writers can succumb to vanity - what you work the hardest on is usually the worst.

I never wanted to have any extra money, if it meant having to have any extra work.

Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work.

Work as joy, inaccessible to the psychologists.

The nuns taught me that the best thing you can do in life when things get difficult is to work.

It's simply not enough to just show up and do your work. Superior performance is not, never has been, nor will it ever be, the by-product of ordinary efforts.

Good workemen are seldome rich.

There are so many ways of earning a living and most of them are failures.

Work at it night and day.