Quotes About Effort

You can't control the success or failure of a thing you work on. You can only control the thing you work on.

I think you can have it all, you just have to work really hard because great things don't come easily.

I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.

My approach has been that a player with determination and a willingness to work harder than anyone else can accomplish anything. It's a simple formula. I've found it works.

Anything can happen if you are willing to put in the work and remain open to the possibility. Dreams are realized by effort, determination, passion and staying connected to that sense of who you are.

People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.

You may have the loftiest goals, the highest ideals, the noblest dreams, but remember this nothing works unless you do.

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.

Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

Work for your own soul's sake.

Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.

Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.

Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor.

I am a very lucky person, and the harder I work, the luckier I seem to be.

I believe that opportunity looks a lot like hard work.

There's only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the disappoint­ment s.

As a farmer, you learn quick: You don't get anything that you don't work hard for.

I believe destiny and hard work go hand in hand.

It's important to know that words don't move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains.

A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment.

Take the long way. Do the hard work, consistently and with generosity and transparency. And then you won't waste time doing it over.