Quotes About Effort

Rick Miller hit only one home run last year, and that's like hitting none.

We did what we are supposed to. We protected home. We have to try to do it again Thursday night.

If I go 500 at-bats and hit 10 home runs, then something's wrong.

Asking in faith requires honesty, effort, commitment, and persistence.

In all honesty, we never tried to get the number-one song anywhere anyway.

A free economy and strong communities honor the dignity of every person, rewarding effort with justice, promoting upward mobility, and building solidarity among citizens.

All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

The painful warrior famous for fight, After a thousand victories, once foil'd, Is from the books of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd

Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.

That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.

There is scarcely anything that is right that we cannot hope to accomplish by labor and perseverance. But the first must be earnest and the second unremitting.

Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.

I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor.

I remain the optimist: you just do your best and hope for the best. But it's an evolving state of mind.

And thus of all my harvest-hope I have Nought reaped but a weedye crop of care.

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.

Do the best you can with yourself and hope for the best.

There is no hope without endeavor.

I hope I get the bliss. And I know I'm going to have to work for it. But I've got to say, really, I have no kind of, can I say "secular religiosity"? ... I don't have a denominational sight.

We need to remove unworthy from our vocabulary and replace it with hope and work.

I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know. If you do so, you will witness miracles come to pass.

Mix idealism with realism and add hard work. This will often bring much more than you could ever hope for.

At Chicago Hope they have a technical staff that works real hard to make that O.R. as realistic as possible.

I don't believe that I'm better than anybody, but I do believe that I'll try harder than most and I hope that people just join me for a little bit of a ride.