Unrewarded Effort Quotes

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.

Sometimes hard work doesn't pay off.

To give and not to count the cost; To fight and not to heed the wounds To toil and not to seek for rest; To labor and not ask for any reward.

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

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

There are a lot of good actors who work forever and never make one good thing.

When you make something that you're really proud of, and it doesn't do well, you can live with it. The hard part is when you make something that you have to compromise on and it doesn't do well.

You can sometimes bowl extremely well and get no reward.

Don't be a writer; it's a terrible way to live your life. There's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don't expect anything from anybody.

A film that doesn't get distributed is like a child that never gets married.

When I was 15, I had a crush on this guy who was really good at magic, and so I learned to juggle, thinking it would impress him. I spent hours and hours practicing, planning to show him. And then I never even saw him again. But at least I learned how to juggle.

When you spend time working on something for a time period, and then it doesn't correlate, it decreases in your motivation.

I'd reached the point at West Brom where I'd play well, score goals, set up goals and nothing would come from it. I'd go home, come back the next day and everything would be the same. No reward, no response.

There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little.

The story of Warner Brothers' movie, 'Mildred Pierce,' recounts the enormous and unrewarded sacrifices that a mother (Joan Crawford) makes for her spoiled, greedy daughter (Ann Blythe).

I feel like at the Olympics I gave the best performance of my life and I wasn't rewarded for that as an athlete. Yes, my fans and my mom were happy about it, but I didn't win that gold medal.

If you don't score, and you have chances, you are disappointed.

'One Part Lullaby.' It was our big major-label record. People reference it quite a bit, but it did absolutely nothing. It's like the 'Kids' soundtrack. It did nothing. It didn't start anything for me.

I did try to win a sixth, but it was not to be.

Merlin is the unsung hero who is often responsible for things turning out positively, but rarely gets credit for that.

Actually, my career as a music director turned out to be a disappointment. I believed I gave good songs but the response and recognition from the industry was not great.

As I'm always fond of telling hosts at the Oscars who are doing it for their first time, for everybody who wins, there are four people who don't. As the evening wears on, the room fills up with losers, and then they are bitter.

For me, not making the playoffs is a wasted season, a waste of time.

The nice girl thinks she's giving up something to get something better in return. She gives up control over her own life. When the time comes for her to get what she expected, she winds up disappointed. In addition to being empty-handed, she's depleted.

Sometimes, I wish we were all amateurs again. I'd play for nothing. Ab-so-lute-ly free. But that's not the system.