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Quotes About Effort

If you work hard, it will pay off.
~ Amandla Stenberg
If you work hard you'll be happy and if you don't then you'll go to hell!
~ Brigham Young
The tragedy of journalism is that these are people doing their best work.
~ Tom Stoppard
My batting average has been good, so people ask how much luck is involved. I tell them when I work 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, I get lucky.
~ Armand Hammer
The best preparation for work is not thinking about work, talking about work, or studying for work: it is work.
~ William Weld
Discipline, work. Work, discipline.
~ Gustav Mahler
And I don't like to work. I only like working when I'm working.
~ Bill Murray
If you're willing to do the work, you can have anything.
~ Daniel Lugo
If you want to achieve some really big and interesting goals, you have to learn to fall in love with hard work.
~ Steve Pavlina
Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
~ Thomas A. Edison
The best antidote to worry, I have always believed, is work and more work.
~ Helena Rubinstein
The ideal student would be one who was not working for grades but was working because he was interested in the work and not trying to compete with fellow students.
~ Carl David Anderson
Peace is not a dream; it is hard work, and there is nothing naive, glamorous or simplistic about it.
~ Óscar Arias
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
~ Thomas Carlyle
The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt.
~ Rem Koolhaas
To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
I am acutely conscious, from vast experience in opens, that guys around, say 2100 or more can definitely play chess and that one often has to work very hard to beat them.
~ Nigel Short
Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.
~ Albert Einstein
The big secret in life is there is no secret. Whatever your goal. You can get there if you're willing to work.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That's just hot air.
~ Beatrice Wood
We're all works in progress, honey. And believe me when I tell you that I've had to work harder than most.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
The secret of the team's success is easy - unity and hard work.
~ David Beckham
The harder you work, the more confidence you get. But you may be working hard on something that is false.
~ Charlie Munger