Quotes About Effort

I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute.

There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.

The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor.

I don't believe that wishing works. I think we get the things we work for.

He who does not work shall not eat

Making prohibition work is like making water run uphill; it's against nature.

We will never have a perfect world, but it's not romantic or naive to work toward a better one.

People don't know and they shouldn't know that you work incredibly hard as an actor.

It's the feeling of total control. When you are properly trained, your body works hard — but when you move, you do not suffer. That's the feeling I am looking for.

All my life I've been surrounded by people who are smarter than I am, but I found I could always keep up by working hard.

No great achievement is possible without persistent work.

Thinking is the capital, Enterprise is the way, Hard Work is the solution

If a guy doesn't work hard and doesn't play well, he can't lead anything. All he is, is a talker.

No great achiever - even those who made it seem easy - ever succeeded without hard work.

No one has come up with a substitute for hard work.

A man works hard all week to keep his pants off all weekend.

I was convinced that luck was a matter of knowing what one wanted and then being willing to work to make the wish come true.

Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.

Without labor nothing prospers.

There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry.

You will not achieve happiness if you don't work hard; and it's a shame not to want to work hard.

Luck? Luck is hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.