Quotes About Effort

All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the first category have much chance of amounting to anything.

If the most important thing for your project is to put on a circus, then you have less chance of winning things.

Problems are chances for us to do our best.

If you work hard, you have a better chance of producing something that you're proud of. If you don't, you won't. It's really simple.

If you have talent with teamwork, you've got a chance to be a championship team.

Just prepare well and know what you want to do. Give it your best, but you really don't have a clue what's going to happen.

Any book represents effort, struggle, work--I know, I write them myself--every book deserves attention, even if that ends with dismissal.

Down the avenue of trees I can see a spot of sunlight. I'm trying so hard to get there.

Everyone can run the race, but not to the same place.

Everyone can run the race, but not at the same pace.

I don't have the average thirty-eight year-old's body. I know my face looks old, but if you slid head first for sixteen years you'd be ugly too.

He held back nothing of himself in his effort to please his audience

This famed orphan of the storm tended to bob about as helplessly as a cork (embracing the cliché in order to maintain the metaphor) until matters happened to, through no effort of his own, land him upon safe and welcoming shores.

The people who get nothing done often work a great deal harder. In the first place, they underestimate the time for any one task. They always expect that everything will go right. Yet, as every executive knows, nothing ever goes right. The unexpected always happens—the unexpected is indeed the only thing one can confidently expect.

People in general, and knowledge workers in particular, grow according to the demands they make on themselves. They grow according to what they consider to be achievement and attainment. If they demand little of themselves, they will remain stunted. If they demand a good deal of themselves, they will grow to giant stature—without any more effort than is expended by the nonachievers.

We know very little about self-development. But we do know one thing: People in general, and knowledge workers in particular, grow according to the demands they make on themselves. They grow according to what they consider to be achievement and attainment. If they demand little of themselves, they will remain stunted. If they demand a good deal of themselves, they will grow to giant stature--without any more effort than is expended by the non-achievers.

The brilliant insight is not by itself achievement

It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence

I'm not good at this yet" and to take steps to change that.

The last two forms of feedback, "You tried really hard" and "You found a good way to do it; could you think of other ways that would also work?" focus on different aspects of the process—effort and strategy—and not on the person.

We try too much and trust too little. Count the times God's Book tells us to try. Now count the times it tells us to trust.

God makes it easy to begin: just do it! God also makes it easy to progress in prayer, for he rewards our efforts with peace and joy. And he makes it easiest of all at the end, for it gradually becomes more natural and delightful.

ora et labora, prayer and work.

he rewards our efforts with peace and joy.