Quotes About Effort

Sustained strength is different from short-burst strength. Sustained strength is an athletic attribute particularly prized by wrestlers, boxers, mixed martial artists, football, basketball, hockey and lacrosse players. The common thread is participation in athletic events of long duration where last minute flurries make the difference between winning and losing, between 1st and 8th.

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

There are two kinds of talents, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

Confía en Dios como si todo el éxito de las cosas dependiera de ti y nada de Dios; trabaja sin embargo en ellas como si Dios lo fuera a hacer todo y tú nada»[3].

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

Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try.

Outside of a person's love, the most sacred thing that they can give is their labor." -- James Carville

Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. ---in Good Housekeeping

Don't mistake good with easy. Sometimes the two are companions. Often they are polarized. Much like a grand marriage.

There is always someone out there getting better than you by training harder than you.

Surely you have to succeed, if you give everything you have.' 'I don't see why. Everyone has to give everything they have eventually. They have to die. Dying can't be called a success.

All the things that make life worth living take work.

Nothing worthwhile ever comes easily

Whatever talents a person may possess to amuse and instruct others, be they ever so inconsiderable, he is yet bound to exert them: if his attempt be ineffectual, let the punishment of an unaccomplished purpose have been sufficient; let none trouble themselves to heap the dust of oblivion upon his efforts; the pile they raise will betray his grave which might otherwise have been unknown.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

fortune holds some gifts in store for those who try

Practice is everythingThis is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.

80/20 says 80 percent of your results come from 20 percent of your efforts, and 20 percent of your results come from the other 80 percent.

Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done.

and one of their lessons was that the essence of the work was the doing of it.

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.

And so each man wants and works, almost automatically, for the approval of his people.

He divided problems into three categories, according to David Gergen, a former adviser from his White House days: easy; hard but doable; and impossible. The first category he left to others, the last he wrote off, and the middle is where he focused his energies.

If you bite off more than you can chew, chew like bloody hell. Peter Brock