Nora Roberts Quotes

Love is no game! It is no flowery softness! It is hard work- It demands everything from you- especially the truth. Only then does it yield results.

You'll know if he loves you by how long he's willing to fight.

You have to work hardest for the things you love most.

This is a business of love and labor.

Only true love can fuel the hard work that awaits you.

Home wasn't built in a day.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

I enjoy hard work; I love setting goals and achieving them.

But in order to be the thing you want to be, you have to work like a dog at the thing you love.

You have to work for everything. Marriage should not be any different.

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

I love acting, so it's easy when you have a passion for it. I've always found the harder you work, the luckier you get.

A relationship takes time, and you really have to work hard at it. I'm devoted to my profession, but when I find the right guy, I'll work just as long and hard for him.

You have to do the work in your marriage, but it has to be laid on a strong foundation of love.

'Hard-working' is what gets the job done. You just see that year after year. The students who thrive are not necessarily the ones who come in with the perfect scores. It's the ones who love what they're doing and go at it vigorously.

That's the easy part, to continue to do what you love, to focus, to train, there's no extra motivation that needs to be added to that.

I like to see things that take a lot of time and effort and passion. Which I feel like 'Skins' has.

There's no secret it's hard work. Even though Brian's the love of my life, and he's absolutely adorable, it's not easy, and we have to work at it. But because we love each other and keep working at it, it pays off.

I've never worked so hard for anything in my life as I have for you.

I have a real worker-bee mentality. Just show up, just do it. Even if you feel like s--t and you think you're terrible and you'll never get better and it will never go anywhere, just show up and do it. And, eventually, something happens.

Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence - natural ability notwithstanding.

I just want to work hard. I love that feeling.

It takes a lot of devotion and work, or maybe I should say play, because if you love it, that's what it amounts to I haven't found any shortcuts, and I've been looking for a long time.

And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to persist in love.

Part of me believes that love is more valuable when you have to work for it.