Quotes About Effort

Una nación que intente prosperar subiendo impuestos es como un hombre con los pies en un cubo tratando de levantarse tirando del asa.

Sometimes our best isn't good enough. SOmetimes we must do what is required

It isn't where you're born in this world, it's what you do.

Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

It's no use saying, We are doing our best. You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.

Success always demands a greater effort.

The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it.

Continuous effort--not strength or intelligence--is the key to unlocking our potential.

I have achieved a great deal to achieve nothing in the end.

All this shows how much luck there is in human affairs, and how little we should worry about anything except doing our best.

The strongest element behind the American effort had been the small farmers from the inland frontier districts. It was they who had supplied the men for the Army and who had in most of the states refashioned the several constitutions on democratic lines.

always followed, so far as I could see, the principle that military commanders should not be judged by results, but by the quality of their effort.

We must be ready... to take the rough with the smooth. We must have spirits so constant that we can derive from misfortune added strength, and if we are cheered by victory, we are also inspired to greater efforts by rebuffs. We cannot tell how long the road will be. We only know that it will be stony, painful, and uphill, and that we shall march along it to the end.

One thing is absolutely certain, namely, that victory will never be found by taking the line of least resistance.

It's ridiculous what little the French do!

These thirty years of action and advocacy comprise and express my life-effort, and I am content to be judged upon them. I have adhered

Those two impostors,' Triumph and Disaster, never played their pranks more shamelessly than in the Great War. When men have done their duty and done their best, have shirked no labour and flinched from no decision that it was their task to take, there is no disgrace in eventual personal failure. They are but good comrades who fall in the earlier stages of an assault, which others, profiting by their efforts and experiences, ultimately carry to victory.

a stone / which in its own archaic, simpleminded way / sees life as a chain of failed attempts.

He fixed his eyes on my fingers while I played to him, then said suddenly, My God; I work at it till I sweat and yet get no success - while you, my friend, simply play at it! Yes, said I, but I too had to work in order that I might be exempt from work now.

Ninety percent of success in life is just showing up.

Analysis] has helped, but not as much as I've wanted. Years ago, I remember, I brought my clarinet into the repair shop, and the guy took two weeks and put new pads on and everything. When I went in, I said, 'Thank you, but am I going to sound better?' And he said, 'Yes, you will sound better, but not as much as you'd like to.

Showing up is 80% of life.