Quotes About Effort

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.

Second Place is just the first place loser.

You win some, lose some, and wreck some.

Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.

Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.

It won't work, Robert," Rybar repeated, "but that doesn't mean we don't have to try.

Ha ha ha! One shot? You say that like there's sometimes more than one shot. Do you ever go into a fight thinking "there's no point giving my best, I'll get another chance later"? We only ever get one shot, Marlin. Life is one shot. Making it count is all that matters.

He collapsed, all his efforts spent.

Why can't a musician try to make a cinematic "state of the nation" poem told through dream imagery and pop music? They may fail miserably or they may fluke a masterpiece, but at least they tried to push their creativity. As Howard Devoto, of the bands Buzzcocks and Magazine, put it: "Pretentiousness is interesting. At least you're making an effort. Your ambition has to outstrip your ability at some point.

But it won't be easy!

The world avoided" is an evocative phrase. In some ways it's the goal of every upstream effort: To avoid a world where certain kinds of harm, injustice, disease, or hardship persist. The path to "the world avoided" is a difficult one because of the barriers we've seen: problem blindness (I don't see the problem), lack of ownership (That problem is not mine to fix), and tunneling (I can't deal with that right now).

schoolwork, he'll fall into a hole that he'll be digging himself out of for the rest of his life.

When you focus on making a meaningful impact on others, money comes faster, more naturally, and with less effort.

You must determine the price that you will have to pay to achieve success, and then get busy paying that price." - H.L. HUNT (TEXAS OIL TYCOON)

Don't wait on perfect conditions for success to happen; just go ahead and do something.

If failure is not a possibility then winning is not so sweet.

Bait-and-switch grace is just one more expression of human religion that tries to add effort and earning to God's finished work. It's grace with strings attached, and grace with strings attached isn't really grace at all (Romans 11:6; Galatians 2:15 – 21).

If only it were as easy to do the work of others as it is to criticize their performance.

If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure.

There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.

Results, not effort, is the name of the game. You are rewarded in life by the results you produce, not the effort and time you put in.

You don't play, you can't win.

Some don't like to see this (vaccination rollout) as a race but a race it surely is. What I didn't know was that [NSW] Premier [Gladys] Berejiklian's in a sprint while the rest of us are supposed to do some sort of egg and spoon thing.