Quotes About Effort

We are going to be working very hard on the inner cities having to do with education, having to do with crime. We're going to try and fix as quickly as possible.

The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.

You don't really need to be intelligent to be a 'top student.' All that you have to do is to forget the least in an exam.

No one bill will cure the problem of spam. It will take a combined effort of legislation, litigation, enforcement, customer education, and technology solutions.

From our primary schools to secondary schools, to tertiary institutions, there must be a mass campaign to educate our people in the value of labour.

My husband managed to cram four years of college into five.

Our breathing reflects every emotional or physical effort and every disturbance.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use.

Dripping water hollows out a stone

I'm sure that many people who are involved in an environmental effort ... they will be pretty much encouraged by this recognition.

Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent", in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly".

Excellence requires discomfort.

Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.

It takes more energy to maintain mediocrity than it takes to pursue excellence.

Excellence isn't achieved without inspiration and perspiration. You've got to have both.

In every kind of endeavor, there are ample opportunities for extra effort. Grab those opportunities, embrace that extra effort and transform ordinary mediocrity into bright and shining excellence.

In front of excellence, the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.

Be satisfied with nothing but your best.

Ive zeroed in on what you would call action and excellence... Everybody who does anything to try to succeed has to give the best of themselves, and art has made me pull the best out of myself.

Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

It is ... impossible to keep one's excellence in a little glass casket, like a jewel, to take it out whenever wanted. On the contrary, it can only be conserved by continuous and good practice.

Perfectionism is the counterfeit of excellence. Excellence is Kingdom, while perfectionism is religion. What ever you do, do it with all you might, and as unto the Lord. That is excellence.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

Aim not to win or succeed, but for excellence in the moment.