Quotes About Effort

In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand.

If cheerleading got any easier, it would be called football.

Crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.

Housework is something you do that nobody notices until you don't do it.

All the so-called "secrets of success" will not work unless you do.

Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

People that are organized are just too lazy to get up and look for it.

Some people can hack it, others can't.

You can't always get what you want But if you try sometimes You just might find You get what you need.

The reason most people do not recognize an opportunity when they meet it is because it usually goes around wearing overalls and looking like Hard Work.

It's always been and always will be the same in the world: The horse does the work and the coachman is tipped.

Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize?

Cleanliness is next to impossible.

In all labor there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.

I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.

If any would not work, neither should he eat.

Dirty work at the crossroads

Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.

Good things come to those who bait.

It's all in the day's work.

There's no need to be jealous of others' life, for the achievements that they got by chance. Why rely purely on luck when you can also achieve your goals through working hard?

To the person who seizes two things, one always slips from his grasp!

On ne saurait faire une omelette sans casser des oeufs [You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs].

I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -- meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.