Quotes About Effort

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.-Colin Powell

There are no secrets to success. It's the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

Standards must be achievable (though achieving them will always require extra effort), and the leaders must provide the means to get there. The focus should always be on getting better and better. We must always reach for the better way.

Freedom to be your best means nothing unless you are wiling to do your best.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

To achieve his purpose, a successful leader must set demanding standards and make sure they are met. Followers want to be "in a good outfit," as we say in the Army. I never saw a good unit that wasn't always stretching to meet a higher standard. The stretching was often accompanied by complaints about the effort required. But when the new standard was met, the followers celebrated with high-fives, pride, and playful gloating.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting in above-average effort.

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

THE EXERCISES These are quite unlike conventional keep-fit exercises. They are habit breakers. They require mental rather than physical effort. They are designed to examine and remedy the tense and over-effortful way in which you have been making everyday actions, and to encourage your body to revert to its natural, tension-free state.

There is in Shaw, as in Gurdjieff and Nietzsche, a recognition of the immense effort of Will that is necessary to express even a little freedom, that places them beside Pascal and St. Augustine as religious thinkers. Their view is saved from pessimism only by its mystical recognition of the possibilities of pure Will, freed from the entanglements of automatism

When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

The butterfly needs the hardship to make it strong enough to fly. The struggle pumps fluid to its wings and gives it the strength to survive. If I were to help it by cutting away the chrysalis, it would die. So all we can do is stand back and observe its own efforts to free itself.

These men are constipated, ugly, and dumb, I can change that, anybody can with hard work.

Tad and a couple of his friends had been asked by Tom to move 150 to 200 large metal corral poles from the front yard to a location beyond the canal. The poles were of varying length and were seven to eight inches in diameter and weighed between 25 and 150 pounds each. It took the three teenagers about four hours of hard work to complete the job. The boys finished about noon.

The right way and the easiest are two entirely different paths.

Those who leave their learning at the classroom door, will find themselves unsuccessful.

To not do this without conscious effort would be very hard I imagine.

To stay atop of these such feats is one brave and endless yet rewardless task indeed.

We fight our whole lives to build and watch how easy it is for such constructions to fall.

Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.

that feeling of wonderful stupefaction from which one generally seeks to protect those who pass their time reading books or magazines, I have made every effort to produce.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

No worthy goal should come easily, he told himself. Suffering created value.