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Quotes About Effort

Most jobs can be done in less than 15 minutes. Just 15! If it's taking you longer than 15 minutes, you might be doing something wrong. So set your timer and you'll be amazed at how much progress you make before the bell goes off.
~ Unknown
Çember kapanm??t?. Olaya bundan fazla çaba, zaman ve tasa harcamaya gerek yoktu.
~ Marlo Morgan
Success is not a destination, but the road that you're on. Being successful means that you're working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That's living your dream.
~ Marlon Wayans
Trying harder leads to frustration, guilt, and hopelessness, whereas trusting more results in joy, anticipation, and a close personal relationship with the God of the universe.
~ Unknown
Worrying, trying harder, and always feeling like you are falling short is the opposite of God's will for your life. God does not want your effort: He wants your love.
~ Unknown
The distance is nothing it's only the first step that is difficult.
~ Unknown
recipients of such praise do work harder, but only initially. Once they sense the manipulation behind the appreciation, their productivity drops.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
Improvement is hard. If it were easy, we'd already be better.
~ Marshall Goldsmith
It takes extraordinary effort to stop doing something in our comfort zone (because it's painless or familiar or mildly pleasurable) in order to start something difficult that will be good for us in the long run.
~ Marshall Goldsmith
We treat effort as a second-class citizen. It's the condolence message we send ourselves when we fail. We say, "I gave it my best shot," or "I get an A for effort." But after a few days, quantifying effort rather than outcome reveals patterns that we'd otherwise miss.
~ Marshall Goldsmith
But simple is far from easy.
~ Marshall Goldsmith
It is incredibly difficult for any of us to look in the mirror every day and face the reality that we didn't even try to do what we claimed was most important in our lives. Even
~ Marshall Goldsmith
Did I do my best to be happy? • Did I do my best to find meaning? • Did I do my best to have a healthy diet? • Did I do my best to be a good husband?
~ Marshall Goldsmith
I don't know why it is, but the present generation has a marvelous way of skimming around any kind of work with their hands, They'll work their brains till they haven't got any more backbone than a caterpillar, but as for manual labor, it's old-timey and out of fashion.
~ Unknown
If anything is worth doing, it is worth doing it badly.
~ Martha Beck
What if you do what you think is right, for yourself or someone else, but it doesn't make a difference." - Susanna Quiner
~ Unknown
With a little effort, anything can be shown to connect with anything else: existence is infinitely cross-referenced. And everything has more than one definition.
~ Unknown
As a people leader, your job is simple: You are the link between organizational mission-critical objectives and the effort your employees invest in achieving those objectives. And you just have to keep those two pieces working together smoothly.
~ Unknown
I am actually trying my best despite the fuck-ups.
~ Martha Wells
Ship might be unresponsive but it was doing its best and I didn't want it to hurt.
~ Martha Wells
Hard work really did make you improve; who knew?
~ Martha Wells
Yellow came towards me and touched the side of my helmet. It took tremendous effort for me not to rip his arm off, and I'd like that noted for the record, please.
~ Martha Wells
Then she frowned at Khat, realizing what he had said. "If we jump? No one's jumping. Don't say that. We'll have to climb to get back.
~ Martha Wells
Codependent writers attempt to help people shift their focus and effort from other people to self. This merely exchanges one form of idolatry for another because whoever or whatever is the unbiblical focus of one's life is that person's idol.
~ Unknown