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Quotes About Effort

Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.
~ Steve Jobs
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
~ Horace
The only thing I can do is wipe my arse, brush my teeth, turn up and do the best work I can.
~ Tom Hardy
It's hard to play well, but it's easy to work hard.
~ Kevin Durant
I never took the game for granted as far as not having to work on what I needed to do to accomplish all of the things that I wanted to accomplish.
~ Allen Iverson
No one gives you anything in life. You gotta work hard and go after it to get it.
~ Rob Dyrdek
Once you take away the struggle for food, clothing and shelter, work is the one four letter word that offends everyone.
~ Lenny Bruce
Hard work pays off - hard work beats talent any day, but if you're talented and work hard, it's hard to be beat.
~ Robert Griffin III
You know it's going to hurt, you know you are going to struggle, but you Have to work on your form, stay upright, the sooner you get there the sooner the pain is over.
~ Meb Keflezighi
We don't always get the kind of work we want, but we always have a choice of whether to do it with good grace or not.
~ Christopher Lee
My destiny is solitude, and my life is work.
~ Richard Wagner
The Harder you work, the easier it looks
~ Jonathan Toews
If the work is high and far, You must not only aim aright, But draw the bow with all your might.
~ Henry David Thoreau
You can never control how people respond to your work. You can only control your own work ethic.
~ Kerry Washington
Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Pray as if all depended on God and work as if all depended upon you.
~ Brigham Young
Never let anyone out work you or out hustle you. Ever.
~ Rick Pitino
Do something useful and you will have everything you want. Doors are shut for those who are dull and lazy; life is secure for those who obey the law of work.
~ Jose Marti
Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
The coaches can only take you so far. You have to want to learn and work.
~ Aaron Rodgers
Genius is often called crazy, but crazy is never called genius. So you just have to put out the work and let the chips fall where they may.
~ Katt Williams
We work not only to produce, but to give value to time.
~ Eugene Delacroix
Entrepreneurs are willing to work 80 hours a week to avoid working 40 hours a week.
~ Lori Greiner
To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.
~ Thomas Aquinas