Quotes About Effort

If you want a piece of my time, the work I've put in has earned me the right to get paid for the work I'm being asked to do.

Unless I try, I'm never really going to be at ease with myself.

I think I probably have one of the easiest jobs in America. I get to run behind the best O-line in America.

Nothing comes easily for me.

It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.

I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read.

Something I should have achieved quite easily took me a long time to get around to.

A win is a win, whether you do it the difficult way or the easy way.

There's no easy way to lose weight.

As long as you give your best effort, I feel like that's all you can do.

The more effort you put into something, the more you get out of it.

I find it an effort to keep up appearances.

In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort.

Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort.

We've got to give a quality effort every day and play better.

You've got to make an effort on your own. Some people don't even try.

Every artist knows the songs that come out naturally, almost effortlessly, are the songs that do the most.

I try to make my wife happy, but I know my efforts aren't enough.

I think playing a negative character is more difficult and challenging, since you have a lot to work on, and you have to put a lot of efforts.

It's good to be able to feel appreciated and to be able to know that your efforts and the impact in the sport meant something.

I think what makes good children's books is putting the same care and effort into it as if I was writing for adults. I don't write anything - put anything in my books - that I'd be embarrassed to put in an adult book.

It's embarrassing, isn't it? It took me 15 years to make an 18-minute movie.

Becoming an artist is not empirical; it's not about hard work. You have to put the work in, but that doesn't mean you're going to make it.

That's not always a nice feeling when you've given everything, and it's not enough - it's an empty feeling.