Quotes About Effort

Most of us miss our best opportunities in life because they come to us disguised as work.

As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.

Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.

The complete man must work, study and wrestle.

We all naturally want to become successful... we also want to take shortcuts. And it's easy to do so, but you can never take away the effort of hard work and discipline and sacrifice.

The greatest failure is not to try. Had I listened to all the people during the course of my life who said, "You can't. You'll fail. It won't work. You don't have...," I wouldn't be here today.

A consistent and heart-filled effort to completion is the foundation of excellent work.

The results are the payoff. And all this sweating and hard work will be worth it.

There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

I have a natural propensity to work on big piles of poop.

The outward work can never be small if the inward one is great, and the outward work can never be great or good if the inward is small or of little worth.

Working is part of life, I don't know how to distinguish between the two... Work is an expression of life.

The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.

It is the eternal, inescapable law that growth comes only from work and preparation, whether the growth be material, mental, or spiritual. Work has no substitute.

Whatever you do, if you do it hard enough you'll enjoy it. The important thing is to work and work hard.

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

All right mister, let me tell you that winning means you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.

Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.

One time I can stand fiddling in front of the mirror for an hour and another time I think: well hack, this is just the best it can get. Only if I have to go to work I really try to look fantastic.

The question is not whether the formula for success will work, but rather whether the person will work the formula.

Gardening requires lots of water... most of it in the form of perspiration.

Love turns work into rest.

Dreams don't work unless you do