Quotes About Effort

Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.

This is what I learned at the hospital. You have to do everything you can, you have to work your hardest, and if you do, if you stay positive, you have a shot at a silver lining.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

You cannot cheat success! Gotta work for it! You gotta breathe it! Sleep it! Eat it!

You work, you get paid, you drink.

You must work and do good, not be lazy and gamble, if you wish to earn happiness. Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

Get back to work all of you! I'm not running a happy factory here.

It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales.

Laziness is the mother of all evils.

The possibilities of success are limitless, as long as you're willing to put the work in.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Get on your knees and pray, then get on your feet and work.

Having to work hard never had any real appeal for me, and that may have some connection with me being in the movies.

A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.

Work, hard work, intelligent work, and then more work.

Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God. Work is as necessary to man as eating and sleeping. Pleasure derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.

Once you put in all the work pre-practice and post-practice and see it in a game and see it in play, that's a great feeling.

When you've lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour.

Doing your best means never stop trying.

I never knew a man escape failures, in either mind or body, who worked seven days in a week.

Any team can be a miracle team. The catch is that you have got to go out and work for your miracles. Effort is what ultimately separates great teams from ordinary teams.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

People who work every day are kind of scared of things they don't understand.

Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work.