Quotes About Effort

I don't focus on the results. Put my head down, put my hoodie up, and do the work.

No honest work of man or woman "fails"; it feeds the sum of all human action.

Hard work ain't so easy, strength training is just plain old hard work and it ain't easy.

Success is fleeting. It may not have to do with you but how your work is received.

The system is broken, and we can fix it. It's not hard. We just have to do the work.

I try to see each new season as a new challenge because I have a new team to work with, new opponents to encounter, and often new ideas and theories to try

I work 12 to 14 hours a day, and in the spare time I do sport.

Maybe the point is that any marriage is work, but you may as well pick work that you like.

I work so hard and so many hours, and I've done that for years and years and years.

The main difference between illustration and comics is that comics are much, much more work. Every comics page is the equivalent of six to nine illustrations.

I had gone to school to work on technique and found it wasn't something that was really worthwhile to me, although it probably was.

Stage is really hard work. You've got to do it every night. Not like doing it once and walking away.

It's hard to do things like auditions, because you don't want to put weeks of work into just an audition.

What they call "play" (gym, travel, sports) looks like work.

If you love the work, it will love you back.

The way to be nothing is to do nothing.

You can always cheat an honest man, but it takes more work.

Often you will discover that the harder you work, and the more wisely you work, the luckier you get. But there is luck, and it helps.

Second base is anything but magic. If it's anything at all, it's speed, sureness with your hands and lots of hard work.

Just like everything, even the most fun and creative endeavor requires work to be successful, and I'm so sick of working. I'm a lazy person at heart. I never meant to be a go-getter.

My mum always says work goes in waves: you have a good spell and then it dips.

Let me just put it that way: I work really hard and play really hard too.

I understand that people might be poor if they don't have any work, but I don't accept that someone is poor if they've worked really hard.

When a business becomes successful seemingly overnight, no one knows about all the months and years you've invested, all the projects you've tried before that didn't work.