Quotes About Effort

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.

People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work.

Pray like it all depends on God, then when you are done, go work like it all depends on you.

If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard.

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

There is no magic to achievement. It's really about hard work, choices, and persistence.

It feels like all my hard work is getting recognized. It makes me work even harder.

Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.

You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.

Too many people want the appearance of winning rather than the practices and hard work that create a true champion.

Realistic expectations for life are that we are going to be better today than we were yesterday, be better tomorrow than we were today. That's a plan for success. So [the key is] simple: just work.

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work.

Success is a combination of effort, talent and hard work. There's got to be hard work and mental toughness. It's not just one thing that gets you there it's an accumulation of things

No matter how hard you work to bring yourself up, there's someone out there working just as hard, to put you down.

When you stop making excuses and you work hard and go hard you will be very successful.

Work diligently. Diligently. Work patiently and persistently. Patiently and persistently. And you're bound to be successful. Bound to be successful.

If you do the bare minimum, expect bare minimum results. You want to be great, work to be great. Nothing just happens

The idea that the harder you work, the better you're going to be is just garbage. The greatest improvement is made by the man or woman who works most intelligently.

If you train badly, you play badly. If you work like a beast in training, you play the same way.

Love is hard work. It is the hardest work I know of, work from which you are never entitled to take a vacation.

It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple.

You can't save a relationship unless both people are equally invested. It takes a joint effort to make it work. One person trying will never be enough.