Quotes About Effort

Many talented actors have come into this industry and, in spite of their best efforts, haven't been able to win over the audience.

Often the process of writing can feel like spitting into the ocean.

No praying, it spoils business.

I don't believe in luck. When I am diligent, my luck is generally good. When I am lax, my invariable turns bad.

By working hard, by making the right moves, you can create your own luck, I think. But certainly luck plays a part.

Talent alone is helpless today. Any success requires both talent and luck. And the 'luck' has to be helped along and provided by someone.

I don't believe in luck. Luck is just preparation meeting the moment of opportunity.

And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that.

Bad luck for both of us, we are both boulder-pushers.

I think luck gets you on to the stage. But it has nothing to do with keeping you there.

I'm not a huge luck guy. I think you make your own luck. I don't really believe in some other force making your own luck.

There may be luck in getting a good job-but there's no luck in keeping it.

Luck is created by the prepared.

I give as much as I can, and it's up to someone else to turn it into a movie. Good luck to you!

I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

Pennies do not come from heaven- they have to be earned here on earth.

Luck is what happens, when preparation meets opportunity

When you work seven days a week fourteen hours a day you get lucky.

No man ever wetted clay and then left it as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

Good luck is a lazy man's estimate of a worker's success.

How would you complete with people who are more talented, more popular, who get better training, better mentoring and who get their share of luck, without some luck?

Bad luck is when opportunity is in parallel lines with your preparation and action.

Good luck is taking action on the intersection point of rising opportunity and your life preparation

Do not feel sorry for the bad luck of people, because behind everyone's misery is their own stupidity and laziness.