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Quotes About Effort

I try to live my life to the best, but I just always preach that you should just work hard and do your best.
~ Usain Bolt
One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat...nor make love for eight hours...
~ William Faulkner
Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man.
~ Francis Spellman
Work while others are wishing.
~ Thomas A. Edison
Handouts are not going to end global poverty, but work - real work - just might.
~ Leila Janah
All those "and they lived happily ever after" fairy tale endings need to be changed to "and they began the very hard work of making their marriages happy."
~ Linda Miles
If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
~ James A. Garfield
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
~ William James
Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.
~ Anne Frank
Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.
~ Edsger Dijkstra
I guarantee the people who study are going to be successful. Nothing can replace hard work.
~ Freeman A. Hrabowski III
I was made to work. If you are equally industrious, you will be equally successful.
~ Johann Sebastian Bach
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
~ Stephen Leacock
The only difference between dreams and achievements is hard work.
~ Chris Bollwage
Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
~ Adam Ant
People are often enamored with my Super Bowl ring. But it's my wedding ring that I'm most proud of. And having a good marriage takes even more work than winning a Super Bowl.
~ Trent Dilfer
Even if at first you do succeed, you still have to work hard to stay there.
~ Richard C. Miller
I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
I hate that word — 'lucky.' It cheapens a lot of hard work
~ Peter Dinklage
The best feeling in the world is seeing the benefits and rewards of hard work.
~ Kevin Hart
I work out like a maniac and I spray tan a lot. Genetics were kind, but I work very hard.
~ Anna Paquin
I thought it reasonable that I should seek the work where the work was the most abundant and the workers fewest.
~ James Gilmour
The Six W's: Work will win when wishing won't.
~ Todd Blackledge
Life is a river always flowing. do not hold onto things. work hard.
~ Gautama Buddha