Unrecognized Efforts Quotes

OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.

I feel like I am doing a lot, but if someone asks me what exactly I have accomplished, I don't know... putting my son to sleep, feeding him, taking care of things in the house amount to a lot of work. But, yes, I haven't arrested 14 criminals in one day or saved the world or anything of that sort!

Here live women, the mothers of many children, who work at night. These women have never rested. They do not know what an unburdened hour is. Five nights a week for ten hours they work for a quarter an hour at midnight.

I know how it feels to sit on the sideline and watch a spot that is supposed to be yours taken.

People only know me for what they've heard, but that only represents about 10 percent of what I've done.

Pioneers will always get the stones, when everyone later gets the accolades.

Many people work behind a music project, but hardly get recognised.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

As an actor on sets, I've always clocked how hard the crew works, how much longer their days are, how much lesser their glory is - and the fact that their commitment to the work and project is unwavering, no matter the budget.

Permit us to labor on in obscurity, and at the end of twenty years you may hear from us again.

what i really want - and what i never get - is to be appreciated. do you know what it’s like to work so hard to make sure everyone’s happy, and to have not a single person recognize it

Despite my professional experience, the fifteen-hour workdays, and a successful new show that I had helped build, MSNBC was still refusing to pay me what I was worth.

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

It's been a long haul. It may seem to some people that have never heard of me, 'Oh she just popped up on the scene,' but I've been working on this for some time.

I feel like whenever I do a movie, people think, 'Well, that's good, but that's probably the best he'll do.' I sort of bang and bang and kick in a door, and people say, 'Now a million doors will open for you.' And they don't.

My great wish is to go on in strict but silent performance of my duty: to avoid attracting notice and to keep my name out of newspapers, because I find the pain of a little censure, even when unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.

We're living proof that nice guys always finish last.

It is a noble thing to make ingrates.

I work my back 'til it's racked with pain, the boss can't even recall my name.

I, poor creature, worn out with scribbling for my bread and my liberty, low in spirits and weak in health, must leave others to wear the laurels which I have sown, others to eat the bread which I have earned. A common case.

I've never gotten enough credit!

I've given up trying to understand what people think about me. It seems like a lot of people don't like the music we make and don't know me, or something.