Quotes About Effort

The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.

Just do the best with what you have, and you'll soon be doing it better.

Thankfully, perseverance is a good substitute for talent.

We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.

What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are.

If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

You can't make a great play until you first do it in practice.

If you practice hard, you can win every battle.

I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.

It is always the start that requires the greatest effort.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

To fly we have to have resistance.

Try a little harder to be a little better.

I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle, it's not going to be satisfying.

The world is not interested in the storms you encountered, but did you bring in the ship?

Second place is just the first place loser.

Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.

If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort.

Destroying things is much easier than making them.