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Quotes About Effort

Never say, "I tried it once and it did not work."
~ Ernest Rutherford
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
~ Aristotle
My coach told me, "Larry, no matter how much you work at it, there's always someone out there who's working just a little harder - if you take 150 practice shots, he's taking 200." And that drove me.
~ Larry Bird
When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.
~ Colleen Barrett
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
~ Margaret Mead
You have to work hardest for the things you love most.
~ Carol S. Dweck
In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them
~ Bobby Knight
There are no shortcuts. If you feel good, you'll look good, you'll play good. Work hard every day. No matter what your strengths and weaknesses, there's no substitute for hard work.
~ Hope Solo
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
~ Vince Lombardi
To be the best you have to work overtime.
~ Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
God helps those who work, not those who are idle. No one helps an inactive person, but one who joins in the labor. The good God himself will bring...work to perfection.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
~ Isaac Newton
If you put in the work, put in the time, put in the effort, you're going to reap the benefits.
~ Richard Sherman
To create great work, here's how you must spend your time: 1% Inspiration 9% Perspiration 90% Justification
~ George Lois
You don't achieve success by "taking it easy" or "working on it later." You achieve it thru persistence and hard work.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.
~ Ray Bradbury
Success is not something to wait for, it is something to work for.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If you worry about who is going to get credit, you don't get much work done.
~ Dorothy Height
If you want to be the best, baby, you've got to work harder than anybody else.
~ Sammy Davis, Jr.
The American work ethic is something to be admired. Our workforce, regardless of position, works hard to produce the best product and serve customers to the best of their ability.
~ Leonard Boswell
Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
~ J. Paul Getty
If work is so terrific, how come they have to pay you to do it?
~ George Carlin
When you get something that you don't work for, you won't know how to value or maintain it.
~ DeVon Franklin
We should so work as if we were to be saved by our works; and so rely on Jesus Christ, as if we did no works.
~ Francis Asbury