Top 88 Hard Work Effort Quotes
#1. Nothing is more inspiring than a person with seemingly mediocre talent rising against the odds to become a champion by way of hard work, effort, and perseverance toward their goals.
Zig Ziglar
#2. Peace is such hard work. Harder than war. It takes way more effort to forgive than to kill.
Rae Carson
#3. To put a lot of hard work and effort into a project or character and for it to be recognised, how can it not be nice?
Leonardo DiCaprio
#4. Fair-minded people make a concerted effort to pull their own weight rather than living off the hard work of others.
Frank Sonnenberg
#5. Earning trust is not easy, nor is it cheap, nor does it happen quickly. Earning trust is hard and demanding work. Trust comes only with genuine effort, never with a lick and a promise.
Max DePree
#6. The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.
Kamisese Mara
#7. Make excuses to work out. Go for walks and enjoy scenery. You'd be surprised how many calories you can burn during the day if you just make an effort and become more aware. Also remember to start slow, don't go into it too hard if you are just starting.
Miesha Tate
#8. Do not let your good ideas to spend your brain energy, do it with all the effort because the shadow of the success can become a reality only with hard work.
Isra
#9. We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future.
Mike Rounds
#10. Stop bragging about your lack of sweat and effort in achieving your goals. Start bragging about how hard you work, how patient you've become.
Karen Salmansohn
#11. Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.
Roger Staubach
#12. It takes good effort to begin and a great effort to complete a task.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#13. There's no substitute for hard work and effort beyond the call of duty. That is what strengthens the soul and ennobles one's character.
Walter Camp
#14. I've had several work addiction cycles in my life. Those were situations when important tasks were assigned to me. I took into account that people should remember me based on what I did rather than based on what I failed to do.
Eraldo Banovac
#15. Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique.
Don Meyer
#16. Hard work and best efforts will not by themselves dig us out of the pit.
W. Edwards Deming
#17. Whereas a good player might do something really good in a game, a great player might do something two or three times in a row. That's what great players do, but they also work incredibly hard off the field in terms of the extra effort they've put into making sure their own performance gets better.
Warren Gatland
#18. Hard work is a misleading term. physical effort & long hours do not constitute hard work. hard work is when someone pays you to do something you'd rather not be doing. anytime you'd rather be doing something other than the thing you're doing ... you're doing hard work.
George Carlin
#19. Love isn't perfect. It's hard work and sometimes it's more effort to be in love than it is to just run away. If you keep looking for perfect, the real thing is going to pass right by you.
Jay Crownover
#20. If we think it takes a lot of effort and hard work to get what we want, then our life is going to be about struggle.
Robert Anthony
#21. If our society remember the iconic people by they hard work and self effort impacting our community, so I can consider myself as one of them because you will remember how hard I've been working to make it till there.
Amen Muffler
#22. The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work.
Robert Taft
#23. You wake up, and you're nowhere.
One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
You wake up, and that's enough.
Chuck Palahniuk
#24. When life brings you mountains, you don't waste your time asking why; you spend your time climbing over them.
A.J. Darkholme
#25. Sometime, Mrs. Truitt, we work very hard at something, we exhaust ourselves to accomplish something which seems vital to us." He chose his words with care. "Our best hope for happiness. And sometimes we find that thing, only to find it has simply not been worth the effort.
Robert Goolrick
#26. Part time effort means part time results
Tony Curl
#27. You are not paid to work hard. In fact, you are not paid for effort at all. You are paid for results. It's not what you do; it's what you get done.
Larry Winget
#28. I found out it is just as hard to make a movie that you are not proud of as it is to make one you love.
Craig Ferguson
#29. It is all very well and good for Linda Lovelace, the star of the movie, to advocate sexual freedom; but the energy she brings to her role is less awesome than discouraging. If you have to work this hard at sexual freedom, maybe it isn't worth the effort.
Roger Ebert
#30. I just wanted to set a good example. I wanted to do things that I hadn't done before. My whole thing was to just try to be professional. I think when you work hard, good things happen, so obviously, because we're going to the Finals.
Allen Iverson
#31. Effort. The good and the bad. I see now that true love isn't fickle; it's what we put into it. If we work hard at loving someone, then no one can corrupt the love we have.
Tara Brown
#32. The way I see it, my ancestors put a lot of effort into getting out of the goddamn ocean and I don't think I should throw all of that hard work back in their faces.
Terry Pratchett
#33. Be honest and work hard to get what you want. Don't take shortcuts; you only cheat yourself in the long run. Success is not measured by money or fame, but by how you feel about your own goals and accomplishments and the time and effort you put into them.
Willie Stargell
#34. The infrastructure of today's computing environment is for good or ill structured around the Windows operating system. Can you get around that? Yes you can, but you have to work harder to do that and most individuals and most corporations are not going to make that extra effort.
Mark Hall
#35. If everything came easy in business everyone would have a business and be millionaires. It takes hard work, consistent effort and courage to keeping fighting the monster of failure.
Delaine Robins
#36. You can still achieve certain things through effort, struggle, determination, and sheer hard work or cunning. But there is no joy in such endeavor, and it invariably ends in some form of suffering.
Eckhart Tolle
#37. I work as hard as anybody will ever work and I like that. That's why I've been successful and that is when I feel good about myself. If I do my damnedest and don't succeed, I feel good about the effort.
Mark Wahlberg
#38. To succeed in any undertaking, any art or any trade or any profession, simply keep it ever persistently fixed in mind as an aim, and then study to make all effort toward it play or recreation. The moment it becomes hard work, we are not advancing.
Prentice Mulford
#39. I also get that we women in particular must work very hard to keep our fantasies as clearly and cleanly delineated from our realities as possible, and that sometimes it can take years of effort to reach such a point of sober discernment.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#41. People are naturally hardworking but will stop working hard at anything if they learn from experience that their effort makes no difference.
Deborah Stone
#42. Effort and hard work construct the bridge that connects your dreams to reality.
Daisaku Ikeda
#43. When it comes to getting promoted, you want to present yourself in a way that feeds into the biases that bosses have about what makes someone promotable. You're already doing the hard work, so why not frame your effort in such a way that it increases your chances of obtaining the position you want?
Travis Bradberry
#44. He had made his way up the ranks of the department the hard way, with effort and integrity as opposed to politics.
Kenneth Eade
#46. Mental development is a by-product of hard work and effort.
Bryan Kest
#47. Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.
Theodore Roosevelt
#48. People infer high self-efficacy from successes achieved through minimal effort on difficult tasks, but they infer low self-efficacy if they had to work hard under favorable conditions to master relatively easy tasks
Albert Bandura
#49. You learn by trying, making mistakes, correcting and trying again and again until your reach the desired goal, which is rarely without effort, but is rather a reward for hard work.
Dante Alighieri
#50. As your employer, if I see that you have to work hard to get your results, yet your coworkers achieve their results with little effort, don't be surprised if I'm not all that impressed with your hard work.
Larry Winget
#51. Life can be difficult for kids born with a gold spoon in their mouth, because they never really get to find out if they're able to work hard and make it on their own.
Lee Iacocca
#53. Work hard, put maximum effort, and have a good attitude. Most importantly never give up.
Ana Monnar
#54. Everyone works hard when they want to, when they get quick results, when it's convenient to put forth effort. The best work hard when they don't want to, when it's inconvenient to give it that little extra effort ... and that extra effort might be just what they need to place them on top.
Peter Vidmar
#55. Training can be monotonous, and it is hard work, but you never lose sight of why you are doing it. Every single effort of every single session counts in the months and years leading up to a big event.
Chris Hoy
#56. Beyond the clumsy, brute force tools of will, determination and hard work - and free from the heavy attachment of want, and the illusions of burden and blocks, is the true technology of creation through beingness.
Bryant McGill
#57. Futures thinking is hard work. Fortunately, you do get better at it with practice. It's worth the effort.
Jamais Cascio
#58. Success is a combination of effort, talent and hard work. There's got to be hard work and mental toughness. It's not just one thing that gets you there it's an accumulation of things
Brock Lesnar
#59. A slave lacks incentives; for him it is better to work slowly and badly, since his effort benefits only the master, but free people work hard to save and get ahead,, that is their incentive.
Isabel Allende
#60. All the lawyers and the business stuff is work, but actually creating stuff isn't work. It's good effort. It's hard work. But, it's not work. It doesn't feel like work because the result is very rewarding.
David Copperfield
#61. Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.
Shelby Steele
#64. You can either go to bed satisfied with your efforts today or stressed with what you left for tomorrow. You can either work hard to take on the hill or never know what it is that people see at the top.
Joe De Sena
#65. If something is at stake, the human mind gets ignited and the working capacity gets enhanced manifold. This is one of the techniques of building talent. It is important to work hard towards your chosen path - success is more a function of effort than anything else. A
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#66. You can write and visualize goals all you want, but if you do not take action, your goals will never become a reality. To obtain a goal you have never before achieved will require tasks you have never before done.
Cameron C. Taylor
#67. It has taken me years of struggle, hard work, and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.
Isadora Duncan
#68. You can make your dreams come true only when you work hard and be willing to put your effort behind your dreams.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#69. Taking the high road is hard work-- walking uphill requires strength and effort. Anyone can take the low road--walking downhill is easy.
Rachel St. John-Gilbert
#70. If a man chooses a certain Way and seems to have no particular talent for this Way, he can still become a master if he so chooses. By keeping at a particular form of study a man can attain perfection either in this life or the next (if a next life is believed in).
Miyamoto Musashi
#71. We all naturally want to become successful ... we also want to take shortcuts. And it's easy to do so, but you can never take away the effort of hard work and discipline and sacrifice.
Apolo Ohno
#72. Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#73. Why is it, I wonder, that people suffer, when there is so little need, when an effort of will and some hard work would bring them from their misery into peace and contentment.
Richard Llewellyn
#74. My internal and external life depend so much on the work of others that I must make an extreme effort to give as much as I receive.
Albert Einstein
#75. Effort for the sake of effort is as foolish a tradition as paying dues. How much better is hard work when it's amplified by a lever? Platforms teach us skills and allow us to focus on being great, rather than reinventing wheels or repeating ourselves.
Shane Snow
#76. Value investing requires a great deal of hard work, unusually strict discipline, and a long-term investment horizon. Few are willing and able to devote sufficient time and effort to become value investors, and only a fraction of those have the proper mind-set to succeed.
Seth Klarman
#77. I was at a point in my life where I didn't have any hope, but it wasn't the end for me. I buckled down, put in the effort and hard work and was able to get myself out of that hole. You always have to have hope.
Jason Peter
#78. Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials.
Idries Shah
#79. There are a lot of people who have a high IQ, but if they don't work hard, then their intelligence does them absolutely no good. Average people win by putting in an above-average effort.
Eric Laughton
#80. Jeff built a culture that was defined by a blue-collar work ethic (symbolized by a hard hat), as well as selflessness, teamwork, relentless effort, and continuous improvement.
Jon Gordon
#81. If you want something good to come out of something, you have to put in a lot of effort. That involves a lot of hard work, and a lot of blood, sweat and tears sometimes. No different to anything, no different to what we all do.
Ed O'Brien
#82. Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making an effort. Most people believe that they'll wake up some day and find themselves rich. Actually, they've got it half right, because eventually they do wake up.
Thomas A. Edison
#83. We work so hard to get somewhere, to realize a dream, to arrive at some destination, that we often forget that though some satisfaction may be waiting at the end of our endurance and effort, there is great and irreplaceable aliveness in the steps along the way.
Mark Nepo
#84. One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort.
Chuck Palahniuk
#85. He put more effort into avoiding work than most people put into hard labor.
Terry Pratchett
#86. People tell me I'm a perfectionist. They tell me I'm too extreme and that I work too hard. I tell them, that is all I know how to do. I was taught to give my best effort in everything I do and demand perfection and raise the standard of excellence to a whole new level.
Robert Cheeke
#87. In order to have success we have to make an effort and this demands persistent, diligent hard work
Sunday Adelaja
#88. Bring it up, make amends, forgive yourself. It sounds simple, but don't think for a second that it is easy. Getting free from the tyranny of past mistakes can be hard work, but definitely worth the effort. And the payoff is health, wholeness and inner peace. In other words, you get your life back.
Steve Goodier
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