Quotes About Effort

I don't ever try to sound like, 'it's a piece of cake. Be chaste 'til your married.' But you strive and battle. It's a battle.

There's always something to strive for, to push for, and we live that day in and day out.

Aren't we all striving to be overpaid for what we do?

Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.

The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.

If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty.

It is in the failures of our striving that we find ourselves, and it is then, in the rising above them and trying again, that we carry ourselves to the next level. If the runner stumbles, they get up and run again.

I don't stress about the outcome because I know the only thing I have control over is my own hard work. So long as I'm being honest about that and striving to be the best version of myself, I'm happy.

I will keep working on different aspects of my games. It's not so easy, and I need to work on every stroke.

With all this rehab, for me just to walk was a huge effort. I had to re-learn how to walk again after the stroke. And all the rehab and all the effort shows the mental determination times 10 to keep serving.

In rowing, you're always striving for that perfect stroke, that repetition, each one being as good as the last. Same thing with cooking. You can't say, 'Oh, I don't feel well, so I'm going to put out a crappy plate.'

You can roll the ball a long way with a stroke that has the force of a five-yard chip. Good rhythm and less effort are how you control the putterface and, in turn, the ball.

Many players are of the same standard; it all depends on how your strokes land on the other side of court.

I knew my first game at Everton wasn't going to be a stroll around the pitch.

The women I see are very brave women, very strong women, women that are facing a lot of challenges and yet are up to the challenges and are making a very big effort. So I don't see why one of them cannot become a president - one day.

I've been lucky to play strong women who are trying their hardest to do good.

Children love this idea that their brain is like a muscle that gets stronger as they use it.

An agent won't help you get drafted higher, won't make you win more games, and won't make you faster or stronger.

I travel and climb about eight months a year. That's pretty great training in itself. When I am home, I do a lot of bouldering, gym climbing, and specific strength training in a effort to get stronger for climbing.

In sport you always think the strongest guy should be going for it and getting the best results. The thing is, cycling also has a very important team aspect, which I don't think that a lot of people fully grasp.

I strongly believe in the saying that hard work always pays off.

I feel very strongly when there's no chance for me to find a key to a piece.

My reputation for writing quickly and effortlessly notwithstanding, I am strongly in favor of intelligent, even fastidious revision, which is, or certainly should be, an art in itself.

There's a direct relationship between how difficult it is to send a message and how strongly it is received.