Quotes About Effort

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.

Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.

Mine is the horny hand of toil.

I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play on a team, construct the hive, produce the honey... executing the plan!

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

You do not get gold stars for cleaning your toilet. In actual life, there is a depressing lack of stickers.

By the way, movies are like sporting events in that you're as good as the movie you're in. You can sit in a room for 20 years and go do a movie and you can just kill in it and you move to the head of the line again. By the same token, you can do five movies a year and if they're dreck, it's nothing.

There is no surer token of a little mind than to imagine that anything in the way of physical labor is dishonoring.

All the participating countires in Tokyo 2020 were good, but this time we worked really hard and had the confidence that we can achieve it in Tokyo.

I won't tolerate players not giving everything they've got.

It is my nature to strive to do my best. This does tend to take a toll on you.

The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.

This race among the superrich—for zeroes in their bank accounts—means a race to transform items of inestimable value into cold, hard cash. The land, what's on and under the land—all that vibrant life—human effort and creativity, our friendships, our health and the "statistical value" of our very lives, all are being converted into money. We have even equated speech—that unique human gift—with money.

it's not the thought that counts. In this world, it's the action that counts.

Sometimes I fall, but landing every jump isn't the point. It's the attempt. It's the effort.

Is there a word for the moment you win tug-of-war? When the weight gives, and all that extra rope comes hurtling towards you, how even though you've won, you still end up with muddy knees and burns on your hands? Is there a word for that? I wish there was.

You put umph in triumph

Don't think I'm not trying. I'm trying, every day.

It isn't so much that geniuses make it look easy; it's that they make it look it fast.

The trouble was that I failed to record so much , I wrote, but how could I have believed that if I tried hard enough, I could remember everything?

The will can achieve some things, but one must exhaust one's will in order to learn which things they are.

It isn't so much that geniuses make it look easy; it's that they make it look fast.

I wish I could ask the future whether I should give up or keep trying. Then again, what if trying, even in the face of certain failure, feels as good as accomplishing? What if it's even better? And here we are again.

Most of those who tried to be the best failed. So I tried to be the second-best, and sometimes I succeeded.