Quotes About Effort

It's not hard being great occasionally. It's difficult to be good consistently.

It just sucks when you've given so much and you realize it still wasn't good enough for someone.

When we played the back end of a horse we always knew that if we worked hard and did a good job we could become the front end.

I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite.

What if you're practicing wrong? Then you get very good at doing something wrong.

If you're doing the best you can, that's good enough.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius.

There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.

I've said a thousand times, you can't go into a shop and buy a good golf game.

I'm not a good enough singer to pull off the effect.

I think this is a very good look at how to tackle this effort. The resources and the talent are here, but now we've got to move forward with some sort of direction.

Good golf is easier to play-and far more pleasant-than bad golf.

An hour's hard digging is a good way of getting one's mind back in the right perspective.

Good reading makes for damn hard writing.

Like my good friend Eminem the rapper says, you only get one shot.

It's hard to have any kind of luck in this business.

I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important one to justify the effort expanded.

Good intentions are useless until they are expressed in appropriate action!

I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it.

They wrongly believe that good intentions move mountains. Bulldozers move mountains. But there are exceptions.

Exceptional results arrive only when exceptional people put in exceptional effort. It never arises by accident or good fortune.

It's like there's a moment that happens in baseball, and when it happens, I do everything to concentrate. When you do that, it can be good.

I was not good at team sports, I have to say. I'm quite good at individual sports, but I was not good at team sports, so I wasn't good at baseball and football.