Quotes About Effort

Even if you cannot achieve much in the way of fitness, every little [bit] helps. The other guy might be getting tired too. If he has five seconds' worth of fight left in him and you have 10, you will win.

It Takes Awhile to Create Nothing

Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.

The inertia hardest to overcome is that of perfectly good seconds.

Research is the name given the crystal formed when the night's worry is added to the day's sweat.

Sure you can psychoanalyze! But as Baehr used to say, why bother to sort garbage?

Sweat silently. Let's have no squawking about a little expenditure of energy.

Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee.

That assignment should've been impossible, but they pulled it off. And that was our reward? To have them spit on our effort, tell us we were incompetent, and transfer us all out like a bunch of failures? No, thank you!

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

what is sought by means of free choice is to make room for merits.

The best commendation of any work is to know that one has done the work that God has given him well and that God is pleased with his effort.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

All victories have their foundation in careful preparation.

It's what you do. Just keep trying, day by day, to sort everything out.

struggling. Eventually, after about five minutes,

The future was eventually all about what you had really done, not what you wished you had done.

In developing talent, hard work trumps genetics.

Success doesn't come to you...you go to it.

la presión demográfica no es un factor estático, sino un proceso de deterioro progresivo de la balanza entre el esfuerzo humano en la producción de alimentos y la satisfacción de necesidades, por una parte, y el resultado de tal esfuerzo, por otra.

Humans are big animals, but it takes an immense effort just to capture a few of them. The hunted are as alert, evasive, and as well-informed about hunting as the hunters.

The difference between try and triumph is a little umph.

Prayer cannot be a substitution for action.

You have to understand accounting and you have to understand the nuances of accounting. It's the language of business and it's an imperfect language, but unless you are willing to put in the effort to learn accounting - how to read and interpret financial statements - you really shouldn't select stocks yourself. - Warren Buffett