Quotes About Effort

All wish to be learned but no one is willing to pay the price.

The effort to blur the lines between Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib reflects a deep misunderstanding about the different legal regimes that apply to Iraq and the war against al Qaeda.

There are two pains in life. There is the pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you'll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment.

The only thing ever achieved in life without effort is failure.

Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid.

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works.

A successful life is expensive; it will cost you something to become a champion.

Life is like a balloon; you must put something into it to get the best possible results.

It's better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would've happened if I had tried

Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.

Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.

School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?

Your rewards in life are determined by the kinds of problems you are willing to solve for someone.

When the winds of life don't hit your sails, you grab the oars of life and you start pushing.

The Christian life, then, is a battle, so sharp and full of danger that effort can nowhere be relaxed without loss.

I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.

Run while you have the light of life!

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless it's kind of hard to get there.

No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.

Being a wrestler is like walking on the treadmill of life. You get off it and it just keeps going.

Nothing in life comes easy. Everything comes with a sacrifice

As long as you've done your best, making mistakes doesn't matter. You and I are human; we will mess up. What counts is learning from your mistakes and getting back up when life has knocked you down.

The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.