Quotes About Effort

It's fun to watch someone like John Goodman, and yet it takes work. People say 'he's not acting, he's being himself.' Well it's hard to be yourself, it's the hardest job there is.

When you knock on the door of opportunity, do not be surprised that it is Work who will answer.

The Olympics are great for notoriety right off the bat, but your body of work is what people remember you for.

Industry cannot flourish if labor languish.

A leveller has long ago been set down as a ridiculous and chimerical being, who, if he could finish his work to-day, would have to begin it again tomorrow.

If there is some profound method that offers a quick way, we would rather follow that than undertake arduous journeys and difficult practices. But some manual work and physical effort is necessary.

I seldom try to probe the mystery of my sloth. I have squandered a gigantic fortune of work hours... seems likely that I'll go on squandering till the very end.

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat

To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap.

I think you're always gonna have half the generation that's lazy. But I think it makes the other half work that much harder.

The only thing that weakens worry is work, so I will be working for Marie Corfield

Real ability is the child of God-given talent and rock solid diligence. Nobody maintains ability without hard work. Nobody.

If the work is worthwhile, then whether we can complete it or not, it's worth making the attempt. That's why courage is important.

...A man is not required to run faster than he is able but it is a requirement to run.

If only it were as easy to do the work of others as it is to criticize their performance.

When you get as lucky as I got, you have to work as hard as possible to earn that luck.

Work-get paid; don't work-don't get paid. Everybody is on commission

Even talent is rarely distinguishable, over the long run, from perseverance and lots of hard work.

I got a lot of heart. I am going to give it my all every day. I have no excuses. I come prepared every day. I put it in the hard work.

As an older and wiser man, I don't believe in luck. I believe in hard work and talent and determination.

Those people who wake up and they're just beautiful, they're just born that way. Well that ain't me. I gotta work for everything I've got.

My work is my work and I will attempt to sell it for what it is.

All the real work is done in the rehearsal period.