Quotes About Effort

Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique.

It is said that good things come to those who wait. I believe that good things come to those who work.

Quality is such an attractive banner that sometimes we think we can get away with just waving it, without doing the hard work necessary to achieve it.

There's no lotion or potion that will make sales faster and easier for you - unless your potion is hard work.

I know of no genius but the genius of hard work.

But of course you can have your cake and eat it, too - if you decide to to bake a second cake. And you may well find that baking two cakes does not take twice the work of baking one.

Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.

Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.

If you're not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I'd rather be with someone who does a horrible job, but gives 110% than with someone who does a good job and gives 60%.

Change is such hard work.

Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.

Seventy-five percent of great art is hard work only about twenty-five percent is great talent.

The harder you work and the more you sear and bleed for a win, the sweeter that victory tastes.

Success is not an accident. It is sheer hard work. There is no short-cuts. You have to take the stairs and you have to start from the bottom.

Sometimes you gotta work a little, so you can ball a lot.

Work for your terrestrial life in proportion to your location in it, and work for your afterlife in proportion to your eternity in it.

Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!

You are not your resume, you are your work.

I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good. Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.

Go ahead, work hard and never be afraid to try something. Even if you don't make it, at least you can say you tried

To appreciate art you've got to work at it a bit.

I don't know anything about luck, but that the harder I train, the luckier I get.

The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.