Quotes About Effort

Something I learned early in college (is) to not worry about what I can't controlBut what I can control is my attitude, my effort, my focus every single day and that's what I'm trying to worry about.

We can control a few things: our attitude, our effort, our focus and how we go about treating our teammates.

To recognize that the greatest error is not to have tried and failed, but that in trying, we did not give it our best effort

When you begin your transcendental training, focusing your best efforts, without attachment to outcomes, you will understand the peaceful warrior's way.

Attitude determines effort.

If things are not going well with you, begin your effort at correcting the situation by carefully examining the service you are rendering, and especially the spirit in which you are rendering it.

If you have enough push, you don't have to worry about the pull.

A company attitude is rarely anybody's best.

You do what you're called on to do, to the best of your abilities. The rest always takes care of itself.

with you all day and night while I'm trying to graduate.

I think you pay a price for taking the easy way out.

just because someone is a great guy doesn't guarantee we'll make a great couple, no matter how much I work at it and want it.

I can barely feel my arms now, and my shoulders are sore, but I take deep breaths and keep going. Every few seconds I alternate hands and lick them. Hand job is such a misnomer for this full-body routine. It's like I'm a one-man band.

I knew he had something that so many of my other students were lacking... desire. Not just the desire to create because for an artist that desire arises with no conscious effort- like lust.

We can try our human best at the crucial moment, and it might not be good neough.

We're all pretty much able to deal even with the worst that life can fire at us, if we simply admit that it is very difficult. I think that's the whole of the answer. We make our way, and effort and time give us cushion and dignity. And as we age, we're riding higher in the saddle, seeing more terrain. So it's an epiphany after all. You have it in your hand the whole time.

Simplemente ocurre que no queremos hacer esfuerzos innecesarios, siendo la palabra a subrayar «innecesarios», no «esfuerzos».

I want to ask her about the swim itself, the day and everything that happened, but she shrugs it off. The swim didn't matter so much, she says. That's not the hard part, the part she's proud of. She's proud of the training.

Like worms, we've grabbed on to the talons of eagles and learned some small truths and means of flight. But we can never really fly. We try, and succeed to a certain extent, but the fall is always — will always be — there.

What if virtue, work, all our striving and sweat was simply not enough to make the animal man a happy creature?

Becoming a great leader, a great athlete, or great chef takes more than desire or even knowledge. It takes effort. It takes practice.

You sit at a desk twelve hours a day and you have nothing to show for it except some numbers that won't exist or be remembered in a week. You're leaving no evidence you lived. There's no proof.

I had forgotten that, and so many things. How could I put everything down on paper? It seemed impossible. No matter what, the majority of life would be left out of this story, this sliver of a version of the life I'd known. But I tried anyway.

If your hand doesn't work for it, your heart doesn't feel sorry for it.