Quotes about Effort
Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
- Marcus Aurelius
I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard.
- Jay-Z
I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent. And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening work ethic.
- Will Smith
I have to work hard, just like any other player.
- Edinson Cavani
I didn't work hard to sit down and not work.
- Kevin Hart
I consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a crisis for humanity and a problem we must collectively attempt to solve.
- Alice Walker
I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
- St. Augustine
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.
- Francis de Sales
No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
- Saint Jerome
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett
Exercise is labor without weariness.
- Samuel Johnson