Quotes About Effort

Though talent is wonderful, dance is 80% work and 20% talent.

In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.

Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.

It's easy to dream about it ... Much harder to execute it ....Work!

Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

You can't spend as much money as I have, even if you try. I've been trying.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Success is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.

Why worry? If you've done the very best you can, worrying won't make it any better

Work. Don't Think. Relax.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

If anything is worth doing, it is worth doing it badly.

Trying will do anything in this world.

Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.

And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.

If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer.

It is not the hours of practice that matter...it's what you put into the hours that counts.

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to doDon't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.

Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.

Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.