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Quotes About Effort

The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary.
~ Vidal Sassoon
They say hard work never hurt anybody but I figure why take the chance.
~ Ronald Reagan
Most people like hard work particularly when they're paying for it.
~ Franklin P. Jones
How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work that disagreeable thing is the only way of not suffering in life or at all events of suffering less.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Miracles sometimes occur but one has to work terribly hard for them.
~ Chaim Weizmann
He that can work is a born king of something.
~ Thomas Carlyle
The joy about our work is spoiled when we perform it not because of what we produce but because of the pleasure with which it can provide us or the pain against which it can protect us.
~ Paul Tillich
If a little labour little are our gains. Man's fortunes are according to his pains.
~ Robert Herrick
A hobby is hard work you wouldn't do for a living.
~ Anonymous
God gave man work not to burden him but to bless him and useful work willingly cheerfully effectively done has always been the finest expression of the human spirit.
~ Unknown
Work is more fun than fun.
~ Noel Coward
Amateurs hope. Professionals work.
~ Garson Kanin
If a man will not work he shall not eat.
~ Bible
Rest is the sweet sauce of labour.
~ Plutarch
Work! Thank God for the swing of it for the clamoring hammering ring of it.
~ Anonymous
Originality and the feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
There is a kind of victory in good work no matter how humble.
~ Jack Kemp
Labor disgraces no man unfortunately you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.
~ John Ruskin
Work means so many things! So many! Among other things work also means freedom. ... Without it even the miracle of love is only a cruel deception.
~ Eleonora Duse
Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.
~ Anna Pavlova
Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Half effort does not produce half results it produces no results. Work continuous work and hard work is the only way to accomplish results that last.
~ Hamilton Holt
If your dream is a big dream and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do there's no way around doing the work it takes to get you there.
~ Joyce Chapman
The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very very hard.
~ Helen Gurley Brown