Quotes About Effort

Knowledge without labor is profitless. Knowledge with labor is genius.

If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.

It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.

Why do we make so much of knowledge, struggle so hard to get some little skill not worth the effort?

Book marketing is a skill: it takes knowledge, effort, and persistence to really be successful.

As simple as it sounds we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices by making the most of the talents we've been given.

Remember Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did but she did it backwards and in high heels.

when you do more than you learn, you leave a distinctive notable footprint on earth

WHO IS LEARNED? A definition One who, consuming midnight oilin studies diligent and slow, teaches himself, with painful toil, the things that other people know.

Actions, not knowledge, bring result.

The moment you start building or doing stuff beyond your knowledge, soon you will end up by demanding time.

Successful People studied to gain knowledge not to gain Grades.

All life is the struggle the effort to be itself. The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities my capacities.

Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.

Servant leadership always empathizes, always accepts the person, but sometimes refuses to accept some of the person's effort or performance as good enough.

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.

The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.

All you can do is all you can do, but all you can do is enough.

It's never crowded along the extra mile.

...in my book success and winning are not always the same thing. To me, success is playing - or working - to the best of your ability.

If you don't try, if you don't do something for yourself, you won't get anywhere.

We believed it was not our formations that made us good, but rather how we played.

In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by the civilian leadership of the war effort.