Quotes About Effort

Impatience asks for the impossible, wants to reach the goal without the means of getting there. The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.

It is the struggle itself that is most important. We must strive to be more than we are. It does not matter that we will not reach our ultimate goal. The effort itself yields its own reward.

Set your target and keep trying until you reach it.

There is no kind of ultimate goal to do something twice as good as anyone else can. It's just to do the job as best you can. If it turns out good, fine. If it doesn't, that's the way it goes.

The ultimate goal should be doing your best and enjoying it.

Always set goals, and work as hard as you can. You'll be amazed at what you can do.

Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.

Whether our efforts are, or not, favored by life, let us be able to say, when we come near to the great goal, I have done what I could.

Goals are like bananas, they come in bunches.

We strive toward a goal, and whether we achieve it or not is important, but it's not what's most important. What matters is how we move toward that goal.

My goal is to never lose. That may not be realistic, but I'm going to try.

I don't care who scores the goals, I'm going to leave my human beingness on the field!

A winner is someone who can look in the mirror at the end of the day and say in pursuit of my goal and dreams I gave my best.

Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground.

No great goal was ever easily achieved.

People are happiest when they're trying to achieve goals that are difficult but not out of reach.

Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

Diligence is not easy, but we can't reach our goals without it.

A goal is different from a wish. You may wish to be rich, but there's no responsibility for it. With a goal, it's on you to achieve it.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

If you're not ready to make the greatest effort, don't even think about the greatest goal

You may get skinned knees and elbows, but it's worth it if you score a spectacular goal.

Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. 'I am' is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.

Effort and work can become fun when you establish specific desirable goals.