Quotes About Effort

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

It is work which gives flavor to life.

A nation that knows how to work will never suffer.

The average man won't really do a day's work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. There is plenty of work to do if people would do it.

The value of a thing is the amount of laboring or work that its possession will save the possessor.

When you can't create you can work

The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.

Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work.

Why do we work so hard to feel so terrible?

You get what you work for, not what you wish for.

I think you're born with style, but you have to develop it. You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it.

You can't just say, "I'm gonna have style." You have to work at it. It's intuitive; some people have it, and some people can work on it all day long, and it will never happen.

From borrowing one gets poorer and from work one gets richer.

I think talent is dangerous to have if you take it for granted. If you use it well and put hard work with it together, it's hard to catch that guy. And I think that's what you're seeing right now.

Movies either work or they don't work and they're either funny or they're not and we work very hard. To achieve that kind of work is really kind of delicate stitching.

The first to come and the last to go, working for that minimum wage.

My parents taught me as a kid: do your work. Do it well. Try as hard as you can, whatever it is. It will one day, for the long run, it will make some sort of change somewhere.

It felt good doing a physical job, and going home each evening feeling like I had really done a day's work.

The frivolous work of polished idleness.

Money is that thing that you work so hard to save but gets spent so easily.

There is no employment in the world so laborious as that of making to one's self a great name; life ends before one has scarcely made the first rough draught of his work.

Muscle-work can only make one weary-it takes brain-work to create true exhaustion.

Missionary work is not easy because salvation is not a cheap experience.

Success has a lot to do with luck, but it also involves a lot of real hard work. The thing about success is you really can't gauge things by album sales.