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Quotes About Effort

Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it hundreds of times.
~ Mark Twain
Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy.
~ Huey Long
Not a game, not a game... practice.
~ Allen Iverson
I didn't train all that time just to come here and get it over with as fast as I can
~ John Bingham
One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best.
~ Alan Shearer
It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.
~ Hosea Ballou
Think! I've got enough to do, and little enough to get for it, without thinking.
~ Charles Dickens
Trying to be funny is one of the hardest things on the planet. I think that's tough for everyone. If you're just naturally funny it's a hell of a lot easier.
~ Doc Brown
I mean what good does it do anyone to kill themselves working, because the worms will get you in the end.
~ Dorothy Gish
Wolves never look more funny than when they have lost the scent and scrabble to find it again: they hop in the air; they run in circles, they plow up the ground with their noses . . . .
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
You've got to try and do your best, and the failure is what's funny. But you can't be aware of the failure, you've just got to keep trying to do your best.
~ Bret McKenzie
If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.
~ Richard Russo
If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock.
~ Claude Maxwell MacDonald
There are two things that won't last long in this world, and that's dogs chasing cars and pros putting for pars.
~ Lee Trevino
It is not as difficult as I thought it was, but it is harder than it is.
~ Eugene Ormandy
There's good and bad in every arena. It's funny, some people, the reason they're in the underground is because they're lazy and don't make things happen for themselves.
~ Shepard Fairey
I held a nail in place and slammed it with the hammer. Best. Chore. Ever.
~ Unknown
It is not an easy thing to inflate a dog.
~ Edward Abbey
I had a couple of decent laughs on Townies, but for the most part, delivering a joke that you just know is not funny is hard.
~ Eric McCormack
Football's all about 90 minutes
~ Glenn Hoddle
Workin' so hard every night and day and now we get to lay back.
~ Gwen Stefani
What a great hitch to pit!
~ Jerry Coleman
Ozzie makes a leaping, diving stop, shovels to Fernando and everybody drops everything.
~ Jerry Coleman
It's funny how you can struggle with one piece and write a better one in a minute. When things come easy, it means it's good.
~ Joe Satriani