Quotes About Effort

I don't believe in inspiration. I believe in work, because while one works one's creativity is opened.

Something deep within me connected with hard work, nature and simplicity.

The path of duty lies in what is near, and men seek for it in what is remote; the work of duty lies in what is easy, and men seek for it in what is difficult.

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Be temperate in your work, but don't carry the patience over into your leisure hours.

I work to drive the awe away, yet awe impels the work.

The easy way out is often just that-the 'easy' way out of the most rewarding lifestyle.

A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.

The one who doesn't pull his weight is not asked to pull, while the one who does, pulls for two.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars.

If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.

It's not the ideas; it's design, implementation and hard work that make the difference.

Regarding one's career: always be prepared, no short cuts - hard work is the only alternative that really works.

Monsters work seven days a week and don't take vacations.

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

Many might go to heaven with half the labor they go to hell.

Work is man's most natural form of relaxation.

Work alone will efface the footsteps of work.

The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work.

Things hardly ever work on the first try. We'll make another, a better one.

Focused, hard work is the real key to success.

Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.

Lay hold of today's task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow's.