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Quotes About Effort

Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Yes, there is plenty of hard work for them in addition to that which they do when they appear, smiling and happy, when the curtain goes up. Giving a performance is the least of their worries.
~ Florenz Ziegfeld
I always wanted to do my best. I got nothing free—I had to work hard.
~ Greta Garbo
If somebody in your industry is more successful than you, it's because he works harder than you.
~ Hugh Jackman
Soccer is easy if you work hard at it.
~ Ian Feuer
I've always had to work hard for what I've got and to stay where I was.
~ Jessica Capshaw
There is no substitute for work. Worthwhile results come from hard work and careful planning.
~ John Wooden
It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven
~ Josh Billings
Of course I work hard. Why shouldn't I? Who am I to think I should get things the easy way?
~ Judy Holliday
I do know that I have to work hard for every single thing that I get, really hard, and that's okay.
~ Kyra Sedgwick
I know how to rebuild a team. I know how to step in and work hard.
~ LaDainian Tomlinson
Life means work, and hard work, if you mean to succeed.
~ Lady Randolph Churchill
When I was a player, I didn't expect my teammates to play the way I did. I did expect them to work hard every day and get better. And I never learned anything by losing.
~ Larry Bird
There are no shortcuts. You have to work hard, and try to put yourself in a position where if luck strikes, you can see the opportunity and take advantage of it.
~ Mark Cuban
Creative work only seems like a magic trick to people who don't understand that it's ultimately still work.
~ Merlin Mann
You work hard for what you want in life.
~ Michelle Obama
Some people are born with the necessary gift, and some work hard to build on the few gifts they have.
~ Peter Garrett
I struggled many times when maybe it didn't look like I was struggling, and I had to work hard every day.
~ Ryne Sandberg
I work hard, like I'm sure everyone else does, and I'm very honest with the work I do.
~ Shahrukh Khan
What you work hardest at, you love the most.
~ T. Allen Lawson
Work harder than anyone else around you.
~ T. J. Miller
You want to know what I make? I make kids work harder than they ever thought they could. I can make a C+ feel like a Congressional Medal of Honor, and I can make a...
~ Taylor Mali
If you want success, you have to work hard at it and realize that it takes time; it doesn't come to you overnight.
~ Vernon Davis
God ever works with those who work with will.
~ Aeschylus