Quotes About Effort

Man works to be wealthy, but gambles to be rich.

Most bowlers want to control the ball. That effort creates the tension that makes their swings more erratic.

Although much thought might not have gone into creating the separate state of Pakistan, considerable effort was now expended on defining, justifying, and protecting it.

Whether things turn out for the better depends on what we do. We ought not spend our time masterminding the future, but recognize our marching orders: to do the best we can for history and the planet.

Results take time to measure.

Writing is 90% struggle. The other 10% is up to you.

We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.

Mossy had trouble breathing. He was not convinced the rewards repaid the effort. He took breath in, but after that let it fend for itself.

To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.

I lay in my bed for I don't know how long doing my best to work things out, and my best certainly wasn't good enough.

Sometimes when you aim for the stars, you hit the moon.

imagine the chimneys billowing smoke. Concentrate on those chimneys, can you see them? STUDENT: I can see them.

Thing about that ladder, Shiv, each rung you climb there's another arse waiting to be licked." "What a lovely image." "We all need some poetry in our lives.

It is too much to hope that I shall keep up my success. I don't ask for that. All I shall do is my best – and hope.

Diet food is for lazy people.

But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.

Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.

Laziness is always your fault. It is the sign that a man has persevered in uselessness for too long.

Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials.

There is no purpose in hammering cold iron.

No effort makes a black crow into a white hawk.

It is your duty to do your best. It is not, however, your birth-right to prevail.

Knowledge gives nothing to a man until he gives everything to it.

People talk about 'service, effort, love, knowledge'. But with knowledge you know what love is, and what it is not.