Quotes About Effort

Nothing you can't spell will ever work.

A successful outcome shows what hard work, perseverance and taking advantage of your opportunities will do for you.

Things work in spite of me sometimes.

Men do their hardest work at the bottom of the ladder, not at the top.

The rule for every worthwhile man is that no serious job ever shall receive less than his best thought and effort.

Directing is a huge amount of work with very little payoff, and a quarter of the money, and nine times more time spent.

I'm just trying to suppress my natural impulses and get back to work.

Inspiration is nothing without work.

Don't expect others to do your work for you.

I cannot draw a cart, nor eat dried oats; If it be man's work, I'll do't.

The labor we delight in physics [cures] pain.

[Ernest ]Hemingway always said, "Write about what you know." I think you can do that, and if you want to write about what you don't know, you can. It just takes a lot more work.

Too long, that some may rest, tired millions toil unblest.

Writing is hard work.

A simple [writing] style is the result of very hard work.

I work twice as hard as everybody else.

There's positive attention and there's negative attention - negative attention is easy, positive attention requires actual hard work.

It made me feel that I had to work very hard, but I've always felt I had to work very hard to get my own approval.

If the work is the horse, a career makes a great cart.

Work is a vehicle with which man chases some fleeting destination called a full tummy.

If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.

Everything yields to diligence

The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. work is the key to success, and hard work can help you accomplish anything.

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.