Quotes About Effort

If you desire to dig a well to reach water, your efforts are more fruitful if you dig one 100-foot-deep hole than if you dig ten holes each 10 feet deep.

Be not in the desire of thine own ease.

Give recognition where it is due. Compliments stimulate more effort and desire to improve. Be generous with honest praising.

Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.

Good defensive play is as much a matter of hustle, desire and pride as it is anything else.

Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing.

The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.

Trying your best is bringing your best... that's the way to do it! Desire and passion is everything.

Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players. I picked guys with less talent, but who were willing to work hard and had the desire to be great.

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it.

An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.

You can't get out-fought and out-desired. I don't want to see that again. I won't tolerate less than 100 percent desire. I'm their manager, not their babysitter.

If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.

The day effort ceased, I also ceased. Because you cannot exist without effort, and you cannot exist without desire, and you cannot exist without striving.

Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.

One might say that "Torch Song" is, in part, about the urgency of the effort to pin things down and what wild dart throwing that desire leads to.

The desire for self-esteem without integrity is like the desire for wealth without effort-a longing for the unearned.

If you desire ease, forsake learning.

You can't wait around for destiny to give you what you think you deserve, you have to earn it, even if you think you've paid your dues.

Man can change his destiny-not by wishing for it, but by working for it.

Do your part, but stop trying to steer your destiny. You're not in charge.

Work without vision is drudgery. Vision without work is dreaming. Work coupled with vision is destiny.

Go to meet destiny halfway and destiny will come to your assistance.