Quotes About Effort

Sometime you can do everything right and still lose. It's all a journey. You do your best, and then you have to let it go. Lots of people preach that, but come crunch time—oops, not so easy to do.

DON'T MISTAKE ACTIVITY FOR ACHIEVEMENT

Never mistake mere activity for accomplishment

Personal greatness is not determined by the size of the job, but by the size of the effort one puts into the job. This applies to everyone on the team.

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail . . . Never mistake activity for achievement . .

Don't think you can make up for it by working twice as hard tomorrow. If you have it within your power to work twice as hard, why aren't you doing it now?

True happiness comes from the things that cannot be taken away from you. Making the full effort to do the right thing can never be taken away from you.

Mix idealism with realism and add hard work. This will often bring much more than you could ever hope for.

You never stop trying.

winning is not the point. Wanting to win is the point. Not giving up is the point. Never being satisfied with what you've done is the point. Never letting up is the point. Never letting anyone down is the point. Play to win. Sure. But lose like a champion. Because it's not winning that counts. What counts is trying.

I prize intensity and fear emotionalism. Consistency in high performance and production is a trademark of effective and successful organizations and those who lead them. Emotionalism destroys consistency. A leader who is ruled by emotions, whose temperament is mercurial, produces a team whose trademark is the roller coaster—ups and downs in performance; unpredictability and un-dependability in effort and concentration; one day good, the next day bad.

Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.

Peace of mind attained only through self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to do the best of which you're capable.

Happiness is in many things. It's in love. It's in sharing. But most of all, it's in being at peace with yourself knowing that you are making the effort, the full effort, to do what is right.

Getting your people to think "Team First" is vital. It starts when you teach each member of the group how she or he contributes to the organization, when you make each one feel connected to the team's efforts, productivity, and ultimate success.

Try your hardest in all ways and you are a success.

You never fail if you know in your heart that you did the best of which you are capable. I did my best. That is all I could do.

The only way you can do anything of value is to have the effort come out of non-doing and to let go of caring whether it will be of use or not. Otherwise, self-involvement and greediness can sneak in and distort your relationship to the work, or the work itself, so that it is off in some way, biased, impure, and ultimately not completely satisfying, even if it is good.

any change that comes about in your life will be primarily because of your own efforts

There are no drugs that will make you immune to stress or to pain or that will by themselves magically solve your life's problems or promote healing. It will take conscious effort on your part to move in a direction of healing and inner peace. This means learning to work with the very stress and pain that is causing you to suffer.

You have to actually make the time to practice every day, because otherwise you will not find it.

The only way you can do anything of value is to have the effort come out of non-doing and to let go of caring whether it will be of use or not.

Trying to get prosperity through seed of faith is running after shadows

Trying your best to bring the water to your eyes, thinking it might stop her from woopin' your behind.