Quotes About Effort

You did the best you could," and she seemed to believe I had. I said, "I've just been going through the motions," using the expression my father had after he'd watched my first tennis lesson. "Sweetie," she said, "that's what a lot of life is.

Time does not care how precious it is, how hard you are working not to squander it. Time passes.

I realize that," said Ms. Daniels. "Unfortunately, hard work is not always enough.

He who labours diligently need never despair. We can accomplish every thing by diligence and labour.

Genius only means being hardworking all one's life.

Men who do things are men who are already dead.

You need to build in human effort for the edge cases, or they won't get done.

Blue Plate Special was the most difficult book I've ever written, as well as the easiest. The material was all there. I just had to find the thread, weave it through, and tie it together at the end. No big deal. Ha! It was agony a lot of the time. Ecstasy the rest of the time. Such a roller coaster. I kept vacillating between "I can't do this, it's too hard" and "God, this is fun.

As I see it, life is an effort to grip before they slip through one's fingers and slide into oblivion, the startling, the ghastly or the blindingly exquisite fish of the imagination before they whip away on the endless current and are lost for ever in oblivion's black ocean.

Being a good teammate is when you try to sprint down a ball that everyone thinks is going out of bounds. But you go after it anyways and you get it.

The backbone of success is...hard work, determination, good planning, and perserverence.

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

The person that said winning isn't everything, never won anything.

Passing a healthcare replacement bill is a lot like trying to put socks on a rooster

Out of tradition and habit, the effort to dam the Colorado would continue to be known as the Boulder Canyon Project and its legislative mandate as the Boulder Canyon Project Act. But its location would be Black Canyon.

Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything.

Because it gives us energy, Michael, that's the single best thing about the game. The better we play, the more energy we get. From now on, ask yourself, after every round, if you have more energy than before you began. 'Tis much more important than the score, Michael, much more important than the score.

God is not one Fire, but every single flame of hope, of forgiveness, of effort to do good, anywhere, eternally.

Working collectively and collaboratively is the difference between mediocrity by yourself...or success as a team. You have to share the pain... and the responsibility... and if you do then you will also share in the rewards.

If you want to be happy you have to work to make it happen. You can't just wish for it and you can't put it in the hands of other people.

fought, it was usually more trouble than it was

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but paddling like the dickens underneath.

You can work really hard, but if you're not training in the right way you're not going to improve and get to the level that you want to.

I'm a competitive person and it is in my nature to try hard in every match I play. The only time I'm not competitive is when I'm playing against my mom.