Quotes About Effort

Nothing just happens. You always have to strive.

and it might be only small things that separate guys who are very good from guys who are absolutely excellent, outstanding.

I give it everything. On time. Every time. Might not always be good enough, but it's always my very best shot.

Give me a golf ball and I can hit that sucker a country mile. That's because golf is a game that requires practice, practice, and more practice.

Most of us will never do great things. But we can do small things in a great way.

This is the most beautiful thing we'll ever have to publish. Let us print it if it's the last effort of our lives! -on publishing Ulysses

Fortune offers you opportunities to create; she does not hand you presents.

Impegnarsi per essere naturali è già una sconfitta.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

I wasn't lucky, I deserved it.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

sink through the floor. Sonia, too, strove to control

The work of the world is common as mud. Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust. But the thing worth doing well done has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.

An new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and tips over.

The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.

Elbow grease" is not a metaphor.

People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach.

I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard.

Don't ever, ever, believe anyone who tells you that you can just get by, by doing the easiest thing possible. Because there's always somebody behind you who really wants to do what you're doing. And they're going to work harder than you if you're not working hard.

Nothing like trouble to make a day pass faster.

You're still trying to get out of hell, and it's a long climb. You'll think flight may be the answer, but you don't learn to skateboard by watching boys on the half-pipe, and you don't learn to fly by watching boys jump off cliffs, shirtless, skinny, while you hold the car keys.

Los hilos que hacen nacer los sentimientos son muy sutiles. Nadie podrá darte razón de ellos. Las cosas pasan, simplemente, y no hagas esfuerzos inútiles por racionalizarlas.

I had vowed it before, but vows are but a paper study for a monument in stone, to be carved out with much sweat, perhaps not without injury, before the thing stands to be admired.