Quotes About Effort

If you want to achieve something, you have to work a little harder and get out of your comfort zone. That is with everything: relationships, the band, music, athletics. All of the above.

Avowed work, even when uncongenial, is far less trying to patience than feigned pleasure.

To put one brick upon another, Add a third, and then a fourth, Leaves no time to wonder whether What you do has any worth.

I figured that I wasn't as smart or talented as the other kids around, so I just had to work twice as hard. Surprisingly, results showed quickly. I was hooked!

You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work.

I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.

Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.

You work with seasoned actors, and sometimes you realize that they phone it in.

Hard work is amply the refuge of those who have nothing to do.

You put aside the work that's done, and seek some work to do.

There's no way to get around it; online dating is work. And some people are more skilled at this kind of communication than others.

I learn that you can work really hard and still have a great time. That is part of Russell Crowe philosophy.

Everyone should work; it's good for the soul.

If you are healthy, you can work. If you can work, then the chances of success are higher.

To work is to live without dying.

I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.

Some people just have a natural gift and some people really have to work at it and I'm more of the second kind. I always had to grind it out, where from him it just flowed.

The life of labor does not make men, but drudges.

See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.

Labor is God's education.

Tell us again, for we forget, that work done without love is stillborn, mindless, and lost in the very hour of its deliverance.

There are things money can't buy and hard work can't win. One of them is happiness.

The only thing that could pull me away, was hard work.

It was another day to go to work, and try to play and play well.