Quotes About Effort

The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach.

Boxing was not something I truly enjoyed. Like a lot of things in life, when you put the gloves on, it's better to give than to receive.

Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.

Uncertain as I was as I pushed forward. I felt right in my pushing, as if the effort itself meant something.

Yeah, I am lazy. There's no doubt about that.

There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.

If you want to make life easy, make it hard.

Talent alone is not enough. I believe that a really good gymnast is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

I'll never reach my destination, If I never try, So I will sail my vessel, 'Til the river runs dry.

I never knew I was grunting, it was just part of my strokes.

The path of least resistance leads to a life of no fulfillment.

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it is another matter.

It isn't about what you do, but how you do it

Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

It's the task that's never started that's more tiresome.

Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.

I think what separates a superstar from the average ballplayer is that he concentrates just a little bit longer.

There's very few people go the extra mile - so go the extra mile and give it all you've got.

The more time you put into practicing, then, the greater the payoff.

On occasions when u feel most hopeless, u must take powerful effort. We must persist in face of failure.

Do not be mad because someone is more successful than you are. What have you done lately to (en.hance), enhance your own success?

We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.

Know that the thing that is easiest to do is rarely the thing that is best to do.

When I started playing, I wasn't fast, I was gangly, my jumpshot was terrible.