Quotes About Effort

Why are you here?" Rob asked. "Because we have to play a sport; it's required," Truman replied. "Okay, so play it, don't just fuck around." "I'm not fucking around." "You're not making it hard." Truman didn't know what that meant. "If you go into something, you better make it hard. Otherwise what's the point?

Our collective information regarding his death was still limited, which brought forward the sadder fact that, at the end of it all, none of us had actually known Rob as well as we thought we did, as well as we should have, as well as—with just a little more effort—we could have.

You can't expect everyone to have the same dedication as you.

Holly is the fourth-prettiest girl in the class, but the top 3 all have boyfriends. So a lot of guys like me are doing everything they can to get in good with her.

Mom is always saying I'm a smart kid, but that I just don't apply myself.

it turns the shower scene was a lot harder to film than i expected

You can not expect everyone to have the same dedication as you

In my life long study of human beings, I have found that no matter how hard they try, they have found no way yet to prevent the arrival of Monday morning. And they do try, of course, but Monday always comes, and all the drones have to scuttle back to their dreary workday lives of meaningless toin and suffering.

Chris says it's all in the doing, but to tell you the truth, there's a lot to be said for the having.

And isn't taking a pill much easier than reengineering the way you lead your life?

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do.

The truth is, what you do matters. What you do today matters. What you do every day matters. Successful people just do the things that seem to make no difference in the act of doing them and they do them over and over and over until the compound effect kicks in.

anything worth having is worth paying that price for.

In the process of learning to walk, did you spend more time falling down or standing up? If you were anything like most babies, you failed (fell) far more than you succeeded (walked). It didn't matter: you were on the path of mastery.

Do the thing, and you shall have the power." —Ralph Waldo Emerson Essay on Compensation

If you've ever been told, "You'll get it if you just want it bad enough," I'm here to let you off the hook: it simply isn't true.

it is just as easy to step back into the habit of succeeding as it is to slip into the habit of failing.

The slight edge can carve the Grand Canyon. It can do anything. But you have to give it enough time for the power of time to kick in. The right choices and wrong choices you make at the moment will have little or no noticeable impact on how your day goes for you. Nor tomorrow, nor the next day. No applause, no cheers, no screams, no life-or-death

I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have." —Coleman Cox

No success is immediate. Nor is any failure instantaneous. They are both products of the Slight Edge.

That is the difference between the 5 percent and everyone else. They know how to use the slight edge to get what they want in life. No, let's amend that slightly: they know how to use the slight edge to get what they want in life—and they do it. They do the thing, and gain the power.

You already know how to do everything it would take to make you an outrageous success. All you have to do is keep doing the things that have gotten you this far.

Great success often starts from a tiny beginning—but there has to be a beginning. You have to start somewhere. You have to do something. If you add just 1 percent of anything—skill, knowledge, effort—per day, in a year it will have more than tripled. But you have to start with the 1 percent. Greatness is not something predetermined, predestined, or carved into your fate by forces beyond your control. Greatness is always in the moment of the decision.

successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do—even when it doesn't look like it makes any difference.