Quotes About Effort

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.

For many years Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.

Opportunity is often dressed up in work clothes.

I don't think nothing. I just do my work.

Remember there is no success without hard work.

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished.

Pessimism is not only unwarranted, it is also a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you think the cause is lost, it will be. No one works hard for a cause they think will lose.

You may wonder which came first: the skill or the hard work. But that's a moot point. The Zen master cleans his own studio. So should you.

There is no easy method of learning difficult things. The method is to close the door, give out that you are not at home, and work.

Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.

Any acting job that I ever got, I always treated it like I was a neophyte, I didn't know what I was doing and I was going to work just as hard as I do on my stand-up.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Work won't do me any good ... I've tried it, and it bored me worse than the other thing.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.

Work? It's just serious play.

I am lazy, but for some reason, I am so paranoid that I end up working hard.

Good, bad, or indifferent - it doesn't matter, just work.

There's nothing more prized to a man than something he had to wait for, work for, or struggle a little bit to get.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

I hope I don't make it sound like it's this big to-do, but even putting on real cufflinks takes work.

The real work is in the practice.

My parents raised me to never feel like I was entitled to success.That you have to work for it. You have to work so hard for it. And sometimes then you don't even get where you need to go.

I think work is the world's greatest fun.