Quotes About Effort

That's what life is about, doing as good as you can. When the times comes for them to lay you down in the long black hole, they can say one thing: 'He did as good as he could.' That's the best thing you can say for a man. Horse breaker or yard sweeper, let them say the poor boy did it good as he could.

Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.

In the business world I had been used to "making things happen" and focusing on results. I was continually pushing or pulling the outcomes of events and circumstances rather than focusing my highest intention and then allowing the optimum outcome to unfold.

Debemos disparar la flecha y reconocer que hay cosas que están fuera de nuestro control, y debemos golpear la flecha y aceptar responsabilidad por lo que sí está en nuestro control. Debemos disparar y golpear, pero lo que no debemos hacer es detenernos.

It's pretty easy to see the doors of opportunity, and it is always exhilarating when windows of opportunity open before us. What can be missed are the endless divine opportunities hidden behind the walls that can be discovered only if we go through the walls. Some of life's greatest opportunities are not behind doors or windows, but behind walls. They require genuine effort. Beyond risk they require real sweat.

Sweat saves blood, blood saves lives, but brains saves both.

Sweat saves blood.

Whether I would survive a defeat lies in God's hands. The lot of the vanquished is heavy. I'm happy in my own conscience that I've done all I can for victory and have not spared myself.

The goal is not necessarily to succeed but to keep trying, to be the kind of person who has ideas and see them through. We'll

It was sink or swim for him—and happens he's swimming.

Ordinary effort, ordinary result. ... Luck is the residue of design. Be steadfast. The anvil outlasts the hammer.

What stands in your way is that you have a much too willful will. You think that what you do not do yourself does not happen.

You had to suffer shipwreck through your own efforts before you were ready to seize the lifebelt he threw you. Believe me, I know from my own experience that the Master knows you and each of his pupils much better than we know ourselves. He reads in the souls of his pupils more than they care to admit.

You had to suffer shipwreck through your own efforts before you were ready to seize the lifebelt he threw you.

Any fool knows that to work hard at something you want to accomplish is the only way to be happy.

The same arts that did gain A power, must it maintain.

En la vida se tienen pretextos o resultados. Hay quienes piensan que ambas cosas valen lo mismo.

it'll come down to more shoe leather on my part,

Being smart is not enough to get away with a crime . . . you have to spend time getting good at it.

A completed mediocre idea is infinitely better than an unfinished stroke of genius.

but I come back here and I know when I turn my light off at night I did my best.

You wanted to know how I did it? That's how I did it, Anton. I never saved anything for the swim back.

David. She is you. So you have to prove your love for her every goddamn minute of every goddamn day. Anything less and you fail the Human Being Test.

And so, with all the athleticism of a student who spends most of his time reading and enchanting, I tried to jump