Quotes About Effort

Victories are easy and cheap. The only victories worth anything are those achieved through hard work and dedication.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is.

My message is, you can accomplish anything, not just on the athletic field, if you're willing to work pay the price. It doesn't matter what your age.

In work there is no shame; shame is in the idleness.

There is still work to be done, but that remains a crucial lesson, you cannot bring peace and security to people just by signing an agreement. In fact, most peace agreements don't last.

The last couple relationships I had were long distance. It's not like I can make much of an effort to travel and see anybody. The guy had to do all the work, unfortunately.

For, once begun, Your task is easy; half the work is done.

O, if there be any kind of life most sad, and deepest in the scale of pity, it is the dry, cold impotence of one, who has honestly set to the work of his own self-redemption.

There is not a good work which the hand of man has ever undertaken, which his heart has ever conceived, which does not require a good education for its helper.

I work extremely hard doing what I love, mainly to ensure that I don't have to work extremely hard doing what I hate.

There is no fate... no predestination... no luck. Don't use that as an excuse to not live the life you want. Work for it. You make your future - no one else.

Shall we keep our hands in our bosom, or stretch ourselves on our beds of laziness, while all the world about us is hard at work, in pursuing the designs of its creation?

A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration.

Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.

It is by work that man carves his way to that measure of power which will fit him for his destiny.

We work and that is godlike.

Man's record upon this wild world is the record of work, and of work alone.

If you want learning, you must work for it.

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

I am wholly in favour of 'dull stodges'. A surprising large proportion prove 'educable': for which a primary qualification is the willingness to do work.

You've got to work at living-99 and 9/10 of Americans work at dying!

Work is a slice of your life. It's not the entire pizza.

I do look at songwriting as a lot of work. I don't overintellectualize music as a special medium that only some people deserve to do. I think it's something you do if you put the work in.