Quotes About Effort

I suppose it must be true that if you have a bad practice, you'll probably have a good match!

For exams, I swotted so hard because I couldn't bear the thought of not coming first.

There's people that have labored and labored and it takes them a long time before they get that break and then they get it. Then sometimes, I've seen guys with a lot of talent never get it. It's the nature of the beast.

I think you always need to try your best, but at the same time you can only do what you can do, and you don't need to beat yourself up about it.

You don't get to this position or this level of fighting or a record like mine by beating nobodies.

You must bring great resolve to your work. It's not all a bed of roses.

Work begets work.

Energy begets energy. If you are lazy, you will always be lazy. And if you retire at 60, you will die at 65.

Some actors try to play parts and do things they can't do. Being funny is one of them. Being funny's hard.

I'm working 30 hours or so a week, and if I'm being honest I'd rather it was 50.

I'm sure I tried being mean at one point, and I don't think it worked. It's too much work.

For me, if I had a magical match that I was so proud of, and I had to work the same person after that again, it was always about topping that last thing and being the best.

You always believed that as good as you knew you were, there was always somebody who could take your place. I tried to work as hard as I could to make sure that didn't happen.

I lived below the poverty line when I was young and starting out as a writer. But my wife and I kept trying to do things better, as anyone with ambition does. But just because you're trying doesn't mean you're always going to succeed.

When you want the belt, you have to work for it.

But [Everett] and McCandless, at least they tried to follow their dream. That's what was great about them. They tried. Not many do.

The more improbable the situation and the greater the demands made on [the climber], the more sweetly the blood flows later in release from all that tension. The possibility of danger serves merely to sharpen his awareness and control. And perhaps this is the rationale of all risky sports: You deliberately raise the ante of effort and concentration in order, as it were, to clear your mind of trivialities.

You'll never feel the joy of movement if you're struggling. You've got to get good enough and strong enough to reach the point where you can feel this quintessential lightness. - John Gill

Maybe, I think, I don't have to be great at this; maybe I just have to be good enough.

The possibility of danger serves merely to sharpen his awareness and control. And perhaps this is the rationale of all risky sports: You deliberately raise the ante of effort and concentration in order, as it were, to clear your mind of trivialities.

A trancelike state settles over your efforts; the climb becomes a clear-eyed dream. Hours slide by like minutes. The accumulated clutter of day-to-day existence--the lapses of consciousness, the unpaid bills, the bungled opportunities, the dust under the couch, the inescapable prison of your genes--all of it is temporarily forgotten, crowded from your thoughts by an overpowering clarity of purpose and by the seriousness of the task at hand.

Following Sikhdar's discovery in 1852, it would require the lives of twenty-four men, the efforts of fifteen expeditions, and the passage of 101 years before the summit of Everest would finally be attained.

a challenge in which a successful outcome is assured isn't a challenge at all.

With a chuckle, Churchill had replied: "Neither look for nor expect gratitude but rather get whatever comfort you can out of the belief that your effort is constructive in purpose.