Quotes About Effort

You'll never have any mental muscle if you don't have any heavy stuff to pick up.

Failure is not about insecurity. It's about lack of execution.

Whatever you do, don't ever use a crutch, and don't ever think of having an excuse for not having said, 'Yeah, I did my best.'

All your ideas may be solid or even good .. But you have to Actually EXECUTE on them for them to matter.

They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

If you want to hit home runs, you've go to swing a lot.

If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least 10 times.

Don't give up. Keep going. there is always a chance that you stumble onto something terrific. I have never heard of anyone stumbling over anything while he was sitting down

The reason so few people are successful is no one has yet found a way for someone to sit down and slide uphill.

You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.

The person that works the hardest wins.

How to succeed? Try hard enough.

You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

I believe in giving everything my best shot. I do not believe in holding back. I am very driven by the fact that we are destined with these opportunities.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target.

Wood burns faster when you have to cut and chop it yourself.

Profit is a by-product of work; happiness is its chief product.

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.

When the promise is clear, the price gets easy

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.