Quotes About Effort

When Nixon declared the war on cancer, he had no army. He had no tools. He had no anything, except good intentions.

A good writer always works at the impossible.

I tried good taste, but the strain was too much for me.

It can be said unequivocally that good teaching is far more complex, difficult, and demanding than mediocre research, which may explain why professors try so hard to avoid it.

We show up. We do our best. Good things happen.

I play a lot of sports. I'm not real good at any of them. I'm above adequate.

I never played sports. I wasn't any good at them.

I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to have it sound as good as my teacher. It took a lot of practice, which I enjoyed, and still do.

Sweat makes good friendship cement.

All I want to do is be a good dad, but I'm pretty bad at it.

When we put our best foot forward, the other one had better be good enough to stand on.

I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.

We all do what we can, and it has to be good enough, and if it isn't good enough, it has to do.

There are so many things that have to go right for a movie to be good that it's a miracle whenever one is.

Sometimes you have to get down and dirty. It feels good.

Sometimes I believe that God wants to try me, both now and later on; I must become good through my own efforts, without examples and without good advice.

Everything takes me forever. It's all lurch, flail. I hope that is good news to you writers.

I tried ice-skating and wasn't very good at it.

There are no shortcuts to good golf. The better players realize this.

I'm not a good enough musician to like completely master something in a couple of days and turn it around.

All you can do is all you can do... If all you can do, is still not good enough, then go do something else.

I'd rather be good than lucky.

Learn to be good for something.

Running after balls, diving, taking a home run away, it gives me such a good feeling. I am happy to do it.