Quotes About Effort

Futures thinking is hard work. Fortunately, you do get better at it with practice. It's worth the effort.

Ben Bova seems to work very hard at working in new discoveries into his Glum Future but alas, his future is glum and not that well written.

At the end of the day, the task I have is just like anyone else, to prove myself through my product or work. I've really found this to be true, the name advantage is a zero sum gain.

People always say to me, "What if it doesn't work?" If it doesn't work, we redouble our effort. We're not going to cry like a bunch of babies. We're going to redouble our effort.

I put in the work to hand Keith Thurman his first loss.

Namby-pamby little routines that don't speed up your heartbeat and make you sweat aren't worth your while.

I find the light and work it, work it, work it.

You don't need to be special to be awesome. You just need to do the work.

Being a human means waking up in this world, where we all have to work and slog to put food on the table.

I just find that the harder you work and the more effort you put into yourself, the better you'll be.

It is not so easy to obtain a reputation by a perfect work as to enhance the value of an indifferent one by a reputation already acquired.

Work is its own best earthly meed, Else have we none more than the sea-born throng Who wrought those marvellous isles that bloom afar.

For hearts where wakened love doth lurk, How fine, how blest a thing is work! For work does good when reasons fail.

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.

I'm a big believer in luck - the harder you work, the luckier you become.

In terms of legend, people do have a need, but I think you can't have a legend without the work or the art that comes before it.

You want to be in a movie where your part works. That's the main thing. No matter how you beat yourself working on the thing, if it doesn't work, it doesn't work.

Sometimes, you have no idea why something works and other times, you put so much work and effort into something and it just falls flat.

We want to be proud of our work and make sure it's worth the talent of the animators, who spent four years of their love, sweat and tears on it.

Deep play precedes deep work.

Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.

It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

Better to work and fail than to sleep one's life away.

You can't be afraid of hard work or long hours. Sacrifice is important.