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Quotes About Effort

It doesn't feel good when you have to struggle to get your pants on.
~ Carnie Wilson
Well, any effort to maximize your potential and ability is a good thing.
~ Daniel Goleman
I was fighting it left all day, just enough to get myself in difficult positions to get up and down. The par 5s have been good to be all week, and the three places I missed, I didn't get good lies.
~ Darren Clarke
You get what you're good enough to take.
~ David Edward Kirk
I couldn't do rap. I was trying. I don't know how. I'm not good enough to know.
~ Dee Dee Ramone
Sometimes good days are not always fun, sometimes they are good because of how hard they were and gratifying for those reasons.
~ Emile Hirsch
Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it.
~ Eric Allin Cornell
I'm not a matchmaker. I'm a horrible matchmaker. I always try. I'm not very good.
~ Eva Longoria
I tried to be a ski bum when I stepped away from Twitter, and I wasn't a very good skier.
~ Evan Williams
I'm not big on the after-death experience. If you've done a very good job in your current lifetime, then your next lifetime will be set up for you.
~ Frederick Lenz
Not a long day, but a good heart rids worke.
~ George Herbert
My stuff was all right, but it's not about pitching good. It's about winning. I pitched just good enough to lose.
~ Greg Maddux
I don't know if I was a star. I was certainly working a lot and that was strange because there were good things about it and things that were difficult.
~ Jennifer Connelly
Sometimes you do things that are fundamentally built to touch the world, and you feel good when you're successful doing it, and you're disappeared when the world fails to respond, which also happens.
~ Joseph McGinty Nichol
I wanted so much to keep you safe. I did my best. I'm sorry things didn't come out different for the two of us. I wish I could have been good enough for you.
~ Juliet Marillier
Just making a good movie is hard to do.
~ Keenen Ivory Wayans
The good feeling I get from contributing rivals anything I felt on the Olympic stand in Albertville.
~ Kristi Yamaguchi
We've all made mistakes that are similar in just trying to get by or make some money or feel good about ourselves.
~ Laura Kightlinger
I did gymnastics when I was a kid. I wasn't very good at it.
~ Lindsey Vonn
Deserve a great deal, and you shall have a great deal; deserve little, and you shall have but a little; and be good for nothing atall, and I assure you, you shall have nothing at all.
~ Lord Chesterfield
Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
~ Maggie Grace
I did my best. I guess my best wasn't good enough.
~ Manny Pacquiao
My grades in high school were not very good. I was that kind of perfectionist that figured if you can't do it perfectly, why do it at all?
~ Mara Wilson
Half is not enough protection, half is my fault and half is them just doing a good job. I know it's 150 percent, but I'm a little tired now.
~ Marc Bulger