Quotes About Effort

The question whether the long effort to put an end to war can succeed without another major convulsion challenges not only our minds but our sense of responsibility.

Whatever your situation might be, set your mind to whatever you want to do and put a good attitude in it, and I believe that you can succeed. You are not going to get anywhere just sitting on your butt and moping around.

You need 100 percent concentration on golf to succeed.

If you compromise, and then you succeed, that's another kind of feeling. But if you compromise and fail, it's two failures at least.

I really like doing the laundry, because I succeed at it. But I loathe putting it away. It is already clean.

This game is a game of failure, and you're going to fail a heck of a lot more than you succeed in it.

To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.

Sometimes you succeed and sometimes you don't.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try, try, try again.

Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.

Whatever you believe in, and if you keep trying, you can eventually succeed.

It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

This is the honest-to-God truth: I just focus on the work, because if my work isn't good, then I won't succeed either way.

Over the years, I have realised that it takes a great team for a film to succeed.

When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there.

Remember when I told you about the American dream? That if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough and kicked yourself in the butt, you'd succeed? Well, I think I did, I think I did.

The only way anyone's going to succeed is to build the product.

It's far too much to say that effective hoping is the only - or even the biggest - part of what it takes to succeed. If 14% of business productivity can be attributed to hope, that means 86% is dependent on raw talent, fickle business cycles, the quality of the product you're selling, and often pure, dumb luck.

Not many people get to the major leagues and succeed right away. There are some struggles. Everyone seems to struggle.

I can work my butt off and create an album that's wonderful, but if it's never played and never given the outlet, it won't succeed.

Something that's fun for me is a challenge. When you have a challenge and you take on that challenge and succeed, that's the best feeling.

Existence is the privilege of effort, and when that privilege is met like a man, opportunities to succeed along the line of your aptitude will come faster than you can use them.

I said if I ever conducted, I would always give myself the best chance to succeed - though sometimes, despite everything, you still fail.

You may wonder which came first: the skill or the hard work. But that's a moot point. The Zen master cleans his own studio. So should you.