Quotes About Effort

being a winner is much different from having the potential to win. Everyone has the potential; it's what you do with that potential that really matters.

You can't climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

Nothing is more inspiring than a person with seemingly mediocre talent rising against the odds to become a champion by way of hard work, effort, and perseverance toward their goals.

Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.

One difference between those who make it and those who don't--regardless of their field of endeavor--is not the "talent" difference. Those who go over the top have a dream and the dream has them. They make the commitment and pursue that dream with dogged patience and persistence. Commitment produces consistent, enthusiastic effort that inevitably produces greater and greater rewards.

Listen," Mac interrupted, "you still have to knock it out of the park. But it's a degree-of-difficulty thing. You're doing a triple lutz and she's skating. You're the Sasha Cohen here.

Mastery is more than the co-ordination of muscle and bone. It is about bringing the whole of us to what we do

Happiness is the fragrance, not the fruit of an action.

Have a choice, learn the process, and then go for the success.

Couldn't I just take up juggling fire over a pit of alligators?" Liam muttered. "I think it might be easier.

most things worth doing are not easy. But that does not make them not worth doing.

Some wrong eternity that wouldn't budge, like trying to move a wardrobe or a safe, only to feel how light I was.

I can't stand THE DEPRESSED. It's like a job, it's the only thing they work hard at.

The only way to fail is to not try.

The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment.

Can we be blamed for feeling we're too old to change? Too scared of disappointment to start it all again? We get up every morning, we do our best. Nothing else matters.

With determined perseverance the effort eventually becomes effortless, just as eating or brushing our teeth is effortless. We learn how energy flows. After a time the exercises and ritual of meditation are no longer needed as tools for growth. They become part of us and we use them at all times. In whatever we do there is meditation in action. But we must be careful not to deceive ourselves that we are already there. This is a new evolutionary step for us and we must begin at the beginning.

People are naturally hardworking but will stop working hard at anything if they learn from experience that their effort makes no difference.

We don't like writing. We like having written.

whatever comes easily to us we turn away from, but that which slips away from us we will pursue to the ends of the earth.

Dating was always a give-and-take. He showed his best side, so did she, and it took time to get past that effort to get to know the real person. The long-term future of the relationship depended on the ability to clearly see the other person and figure out if they were a good fit together.

Great achievements would be few and far between without gross overestimation of the advantages and pleasures to be expected from them.

Originality and creativity do not result from calculated effort, but from the natural state of consciousness—an open mind at play.

people are doing the best that they can from their own level of consciousness.