Quotes About Effort

Thinking is the hardest and most exhausting of all labor; and hence many people shrink from it.

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) .

Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy.

I think the hard part is over. Now it's time for us to play.

The bicycle kick is not easy to do.

People who succeed at the highest level are not lucky; they're doing something differently than everyone else.

You can only kill disappointment with a new try.

Do your best and let God do the rest.

I can't really do anything about the past and all I can do is just embrace the future and try to make the most of the present. So I'm really trying to do that and doing my best every day.

It's easier to get rich than it is to explain not getting rich.

When you resist doing what you know needs done, it is difficult. Find a mental way to enjoy it, and just do it, and it is easy.

There is no gain without struggle.

That's what you want to do? Then nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything you've got. I've told you many times, 'Cant do is like Dont Care.' Neither of them have a home.

Do It Badly - But at Least Do It!

Occupy yourself with what's in your life now. Address those situations and subjects as fully as possible with your best efforts. That is what produces happiness and clarity and knowledge and power.

Success and failure are terrible traps.

If wed known we were going to be The Beatles wed have tried harder.

Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.

To be truly and really independent is to support ourselves by our own exertions.

If you're playing basketball with someone who's better than you, you have to get better or else it's no fun

Schlepping all of the equipment is the part I hate more than anything.

Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory

(American swimmer, 1972 Summer Olympics, on winning seven gold medals Inspirational) I swam my brains out.

Try not to confuse longevity with a job well done.