Quotes About Effort

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

Syzygy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria - anyone who can use those four words in one sentence will never have to do manual labor.

Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.

I like to work really hard and then earn the good life. I actually enjoy it. If you're eating caviar all the time, it doesn't taste good anymore.

I suppose I could've done a job. I haven't been doing any work. I'm not really used to doing quick jobs and then stopping, but I'm sure it would be possible.

We have great work ahead of us, and it needs devotion and much, much energy. To grow, to discover, we need involvement.

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

For a woman to get half as much credit as a man, she has to work twice as hard, and be twice as smart. Fortunately, that isn't difficult.

Every day I work my guts out in training, every match I play my heart out.

Most of the world's work is done by people who don't feel very well.

I believe in hard work and luck, and that the first often leads to the second

You have to learn to work and search, not expect instantly to find.

There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness.

The only thing we really have to work at in this life is how to manifest love.

The only way to win is to work, work, work, work, and hope to have a few insights

There's something spiritual in hard work. Spirituality isn't all aromatherapy and scented candles.

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

The price of success: hard work, patience, and a few sacrifices.

I always thought if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough, things would work out. I was wrong.

Nothing worth having comes easy.

I went to school and made good grades and went to college. So I was afforded an opportunity through my parents' hard work that most people don't have.

The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the larger work of the community as a whole.

Failure makes me work even harder.

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.