Quotes About Effort

We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.

He is accelerating all the time. That last lap was run in 64 seconds and the one before in 62.

Poverty is when large efforts produce small results. Wealth is when small efforts produce large results.

You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder.

Keep doing what you've been doing and you will keep getting what you've been getting!

Not only has one to do one's best, one must, while doing one's best, remain detached from whatever one is trying to achieve.

If it turns out that my best wasn't good enough, at least I won't look back and say that I was afraid to try; failure makes me work even harder.

Failure is acceptable. but not trying is a whole different ball park.

There's nothing glorious about being a professional. . . . Professionalism probably comes down to being able to work on a bad day.

Any action is better than no action at all.

Business is like a wheel barrow. Nothing happens until you start pushing.

Good intentions are not enough. They've never put an onion in the soup yet.

There's few things that get you over your own crap more than working hard.

Nothing comes sailing by itself.

To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.

I used to play basketball and I was pretty competitive, but I was never a bad loser. I never got angry. For me it was always about doing my best and devoting myself to a challenge.

I spent twelve years training for a career that was over in a week. Joe Namath spent one week training for a career that lasted twelve years.

So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action-just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord.

An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.

Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

If you put your foot in it, be sure it's your best foot.

For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do.

Very few people are capable of sustained effort, and that's the reason why we have comparatively few outstanding successes.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.