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Quotes About Effort

I love going out for any audition. I'm very professional, I study my stuff, I work on it, and even if I'm not right for the job, so what? I know I did my best.
~ Kellan Lutz
Real life, raising kids and trying to raise them to be good people takes a lot of work. It's all about (appearing) effortless, yet there's so much effort. You do it the best you can.
~ Kelli Williams
If I come to work every day and do my job, work as hard as I can, be a great teammate, the rest of that stuff will take care of itself.
~ Kevin Durant
Success isn't supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There's no guarantee you're going to succeed. There's nothing set in stone.
~ Kevin Hart
Some people come to work and that's exactly what it is - work.
~ Kevin Hart
I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is.
~ Kevin J. Anderson
Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Work is love made visable.
~ Khalil Gibran
A joke is like building a mousetrap from scratch. You have to work pretty hard to make the thing snap when it is supposed to snap.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Marriage takes work - it doesn't just happen.
~ Lara Stone
In a collaboration, each author will do 75% of the work.
~ Larry Niven
People should tell your children what life is all about - it's about work.
~ Lauren Bacall
Getting anywhere you want is hard work. In this photography culture, everything looks so amazing. But it's actually very hard to get to where anybody gets.
~ Lauren Graham
In life's work, bliss and sacrifice are two sides of the same coin, complementary opposites.
~ Laurence Boldt
It's all about work when you reach up, tap in and step on that field. You don't mess around when you go through that gate.
~ Lawrence Jackson
This is a job and we want to have fun. But it's a job and we should look like we're going to work.
~ LeBron James
We don't want to get frustrated because it sticks in your mind too much. We have to work at it and see what we did wrong.
~ LeBron James
I do so much work that I don't have a lot of time for my life!
~ Leighton Meester
The pen isn't really the weapon - the work ethic is the weapon.
~ Lemon Andersen
... it is the work and not the reward that is precious.
~ Leo Tolstoy
I was working all the time I was in college. I was working so much that I could hardly do my college work.
~ Les Baxter
He wasn't surprised. He was used to this anticlimactic feeling, where by the time you've done all the work to get something you don't even want it anymore.
~ Lev Grossman
It's easy enough to plan jobs, to plan a lot of work.
~ Liam Neeson
When I work, it can be a 16-hour day.
~ Linda Evangelista