Quotes About Effort

Qui ne travaille pas ne mange pas, certes, mais qui travaille ne vit plus.

En resumidas cuentas, en este mundo, cada cual consigue lo que se merece. Pero sólo quienes alcanzan el éxito lo reconocen. - Georges Simenon

I'm beginning to wish you had to work for a living.

Very bad business,' said Mr Wychbold. 'Nothing to be done, though.' 'That,' said Sophy severely, 'is what people always say when they are too lazy, or perhaps too timorous, to make a push to be helpful!

We may yearn to "let go and let God," but it usually doesn't happen until we have exhausted our own efforts.

These steps feel as if they got steeper while we were gone, Benny said in a tired voice.

This is what I like, said Jesse. Everything seems better when we have to work to get it.

This is what I like," said Jessie. "Everything seems better when we have to work to get it.

If you can do it then why do it?

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.

Karate is like boiling water: without heat, it returns to it's tepid state

I have to work out to look the best possible before the show.

We collectively, to get things done, work together as a team. Because the work really happens horizontally in our company, not vertically. Products are horizontal. It takes hardware plus software plus services to make a killer product.

It is the entire team that has to work together. Football is a team game. We all have to give our all.

I would like to be coaching in the right situation if it's a team effort and doesn't have a bunch of mini-agendas. I want something where the school wants to win and values graduation and everybody wants to work together.

We have to work together for the good of the team, for trying to win games. That is what we train to do.

There are a lot of blessings from being a big family, but there's also a lot more work. My kids understand that we are a team and we have to work together, so I don't do it all by myself.

You're not going to go far unless you're a workaholic.

Future is a real workaholic, so he's the type of guy that's gonna do more than enough songs to make sure you got everything you need.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

'Perfection' to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, 'I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.' I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That's perfection.

Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.

I started at the bottom and worked my way up. I think that shows hard work pays off. A good thing takes a while.

God gives us a gift, but then that gift has to be worked.