Quotes About Effort

The more one works, the better one works and the more one wants to work.

A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.

Until I did my work and I did my utmost best, I feel like I don't have a right to feel excited.

If you are given a lot of money without having to work for it, you won't appreciate it as much as if you made it yourself.

Work is the miracle by which talent is brought to the surface and dreams become reality.

In my day, the players used to work their socks off. It's all changed now, obviously.

I think it's an accumulation of work over the years, culminating with our work during the Hurricane Katrina-Rita relief effort.

It's the work that's important, not the individual who does it.

I don't do well when I don't work.

It feels good to finally stand on top of vanquished sloth, and actually impress some people as a hard worker.

Hard work and a proper frame of mind prepare you for the lucky breaks that come along -- or don't.

Some people can work their butts off and never get what they're aiming for while others can get it without any effort at all.

I have to work really hard, eight shows a week, to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write a play, and it's a - knock wood - hit, the checks come in for many years.

I mean, you work and you try and find the work that suits you the best and you enjoy the most.

Where there is most labour there is not always most life.

My sons are precious to me and I have tried incredibly hard to strike the right balance between work and home life while being acutely aware that I haven't always got it right.

You know, a low budget, you have to work harder. You have to plan well; you don't have much time to rehearse.

Everyone wants to be a movie star or a model, to be in the papers, but few realise just what hard work it is, getting up early, and so on.

I think a lot of my work has been a weird attempt to liberate myself, but it's not altogether successful.

Every nail driven should be as another rivet in the machine of the universe, you carrying on the work.

All that money can do is buy us some one else's work in exchange for our own.

Thinking is hard work. That's why there are so few people doing it.

Whenever any great song or album gets lost in the ether, someone is deprived of the joy of hearing it, and the great effort of those who created and recorded the work is damaged.

And so we plough along, as the fly said to the ox.