Quotes About Effort

Nothing simple is worth doing easily.

I'd rather have people hate me with the knowledge that I tried to save them.

I've been stuck up shit creek without a means of propulsion too, you'll need to dig deep and be willing to get your hands dirty.

Talent alone can't give you a gold medal.There is practise,there is hard work and there is a will to succeed.

Its called a playground, but its nearer to a battlefield. It can be brutal

Lightning does the work; thunder takes the credit.

Sweat never drowned no one.

A man who looks for easy work goes to bed tired.

Sweat is a waste of whiskey.

The hardest part about photography is getting out of bed.

Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically.

We come to this work because the alternative, being consumed by the effort to ignore the mystery of being, is no longer acceptable.

The point is not to be the best, but to be the best you can be.

But I love the teaching: the hard work of a first class, the fun of the second class. Then the misery of the third.

As the great golfer Ben Hogan once said, "Golf is a game of luck. And the harder I work, the luckier I get.

But this time I don't care. I'm here for six months to make my money and then she can fuck off. No way am I going to take any more abuse or give any extra effort to my work. As a matter of fact, I'm going to be a bad employee. I'm going to relish being one of those workers who lingers at the watercooler and disappears just when you need them. Bad idea for her to start out on the wrong foot with me.

There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile.

Most murky writing is inadvertent, a sincere if doomed effort to communicate. Far worse is the deliberate attempt to say something that you know readers won't like in a way that you hope they won't understand.

Bill Phillips, one of his successors as chairman, captured the spirit in his mantra: "Work hard. Play hard. Sleep fast.

Why waste energy with wasted movements?] Very commonly, tightening and furrowing the brow while concentrating... Is the brain a muscle that works better by tensing the skull?

We need to regard relaxation as a process of surrendering to a deeper wisdom, rather than acquiring, through effort, a new ability.

The easiest way to do art is to dispense with success and failure altogether and just get on with it

The American Dream means giving it your all, trying your hardest, accomplishing something. And then I'd add to that, giving something back. No definition of a successful life can do anything but include serving others.

Love is dangerous, if you know it's dangerous, that makes you treasure it, and you'll work harder to keep it.