Quotes About Effort

My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.

The boring side of business is what makes it work.

The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working. One is tempted to stop and listen to it. The only thing is to turn away and go on working. Work. There is nothing else.

Work is the only thing I do to escape the corruption of praise.

We ought all to make an effort to act on our first thoughts and let our unspoken gratitude find expression. Then there will be more sunshine in the world, and more power to work for what is good.

Work is what horses die of

My achievements in the field of chess are the result of immense hard work in studying theory.

Work becomes at once a delight and a tyrant. For even when the time comes and you can relax, you hardly know how.

Inevitably we start by thinking that if our work is any good, we'll get money. It's as we would if you started up a business or if you work in another profession.

Editing is work, and it's hard to do while working on one's own writing.

If the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it. One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident.

Easy come, easy go... "Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing" schemes don't work, they are just not logical

I like hard work and I don't like pretending things are perfect.

There is no work of art that is without short cuts.

Genius consists of equal parts of natural aptitude and hard work.

Even low-calorie diets and vigorous exercise fail to work in the long term for at least some people.

Wish for what you want, work for what you need. -Carmen's grandmother

What my work is, is my approach to it. It's the practice. And my work is about the effort that I make to get there. And I think if there's anything artistic, it's in that middle space.

Prayer is hard work. We may neglect it because we're too tired, too busy, or too distracted to put into prayer the effort required.

The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work.

I wouldnt say that I was a born performer, because I work very hard at it.

Life fundamentally does not change depending on work or fame or success.

Work isn't meaningful just because you spend your life doing it.

Almost anything difficult, any challenge takes time, patience, and hard work.