Quotes About Effort

Can we come up with a phrase or two that realistically describe how we should treat customers? Yes. Here are two short phrases that fit the bill. The customer always deserves to be treated as if he or she is important and his or her opinions, needs, and wants are worth your attention. The customer deserves to receive maximum effort of those serving him or her, even when

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!

She strives, understanding the futility of it, for perfection.

If it was easy, it wouldn't be fun.

The tears were his. Tyson had earned them.

More overblown, effusive praise for Daniel's efforts. "Thank

It takes a lifetime to build a life. It only takes a second to ruin it.

We know that every effort to better society, especially when injustice and sin are so ingrained, is an effort that God blesses, that God wants, that God demands of us.

What is good is difficult, and what is difficult is rare.

You might be the smartest person in the world, but the second-smartest person will just need a little more time to do it.

Great risks could be undertaken only after great preparation.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

By faithfully working eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.

We saw the risk we took in doing good, But dared not spare to do the best we could

The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.

But the thing of it is, I need to be kept. There's work enough to do—there's always that; But behind's behind. The worst that you can do Is set me back a little more behind. I shan't catch up in this world, anyway.

Remember, most of us got something for nothing the first time just by showing up here at birth. Now we have to qualify.

I do not want to know what you will hope for. I want to know what you will work for. I do not want your sympathy for the needs of humanity. I want your muscle. As the wagon driver said when they came to a long, hard hill: 'Them that's going on with us, get out and push. Them that ain't, get out of the way'.

If you do not join the dancing you will feel foolish. So why not dance? And i will tell you a secret: If you do not join the dance, we will know you are a fool. But if you dance, we will think well of you for trying. if you dance badly to begin and we laugh, what is the sin in that? We will begin there.

About winning and losing: It isn't important, what really counts is how you play the game. About playing the game: PLAY TO WIN!

Most people don't have the patience to absorb their minds in the fine points and minutiae that are intrinsically part of their work. They are in a hurry to create effects and make a splash; they think in large brush strokes. Their work inevitably reveals their lack of attention to detail - it doesn't connect deeply with the public, and it feels flimsy.

It is time to reverse this prejudice against conscious effort and to see the powers we gain through practice and discipline as eminently inspiring and even miraculous.