Quotes About Effort

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

All excellence is equally difficult.

We don't have to do it any better than we can - ever. Do our best for the moment, then let it go. If we have to redo it, we can do our best in another moment, later.

No one knows what he can do till he tries.

I can do small things in a great way.

All compounded things are subject to decay. Strive with diligence!

Excellence without effort is as futile as progress without preparation.

Ten thousand times I've done my best and all's to do again.

Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.

Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.

When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.

The mediocre always feel as if they're fighting for their lives when confronted by the excellent.

Trying to do well and trying to beat others are two different things. Excellence and victory are conceptually distinct . . . and are experienced differently.

You're only as good as your last story.

The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.

Excellence is a choice, and you must make that choice over and over again until "doing your best" is all you know.

Failure is the price of excellence.

I just couldn't make the grade as a hack-that, like everything else, requires a certain practiced excellence.

Personally, I always felt times aren't so excellent as are performances.

I often say 'pursue excellence, ignore success.' Success is a by-product of excellence.

Don't wait for a huge platform before you give of your best performance

If you deliver excellence right now, that gives you the best shot at the best future you've got coming.

It is a well-known experience that the only truly enjoyable and profitable way of studying mathematics is the method of "filling in details" by one's own efforts.

Simple is hard. Easy is harder. Invisible is hardest.