Quotes About Effort

steep learning curve means you're climbing faster. And the steepest learning curves come right away.

because organizing "anti" is easier than building "pro.

Most people would rather take the easy road than the high road.

No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference.

To know God is a matter of diligence and discipline in the things of the soul. He has rigged it that way. That's the way you'll come to Him and that's what He honors. It takes diligence, discipline, and effort.

When you try to get something for nothing, you become nothing.

adult life in studying and teaching the causes of peak

others must exercise twice as much just to keep pace. Some people are predisposed

You never know how much you can do, until you try to do more than you can.

The only true failure is the failure of not trying.

Most will tell you what they believe to be fact because it is much harder to conceal it. It takes effort to suppress the truth. It usually eats you up from the inside out if you try to contain it in silence. In the end you have to decide what truth resides best within you... even if your point of view does not agree with others.

Shortly, some pipeline worker or shipfitter would slow down.

Running twenty-six miles is no fun. I think it was possibly an American who came up with the adage 'if it ain't hurting, it ain't working'. It would be nice to think that shortly after he uttered those words someone smacked him in the mouth by way of demonstrating how well it was working for him.

I went out with some FBI agents and knocked the ball into all eighteen holes. It wasn't hard but once you've done it, I don't know why you'd want to do it again.

Do your best and forget the rest.

best" means showing up and doing your best without being attached to the outcome.

Today, did I do my best and forget the rest?

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment; full effort is full victory. —MAHATMA GANDHI

Do your best" means showing up and doing your best without being attached to the outcome. It means reality is not something you can manipulate. "Forget the rest" means you don't let the same things that used to get in your way, get in your way.

knowledge is power, and action is results.

you are either climbing or sliding or growing and dying.

I never imagined losing my mind was going to be such hard work.

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

In short, we each have one reservoir of will and discipline, and it is depleted by any act of conscious self-regulation—whether that's resisting a cookie, solving a puzzle, or doing anything else that requires effort. "The