Quotes About Effort

I made what must have been about a sixty-point turn and eventually managed to squeeze out of the small and crowded car park at the rear

Time fades away, in other words; it's not any reason for us to give up trying to make it better.

The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.

The 80/20 Principle asserts that a minority of causes, inputs, or effort usually lead to a majority of the results, outputs, or rewards. Taken literally, this means that, for example, 80 percent of what you achieve in your job comes from 20 percent of the time spent. Thus for all practical purposes, four-fifths of the effort—a dominant part of it—is largely irrelevant.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work ' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.

Work like everything depends on you, then pray like everything depends on God.

I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education.

I never did take sugar in my tea, or in coffee,' said the Vicar. 'I have always disliked it. But I understood that by taking saccharine, we were somehow assisting the war effort.

Fue la arrogancia de un hombre que se creía tan seguro del amor de una mujer que no consideraba merecedor de esfuerzo hacerse merecedor de él.

Life isn't just to be found, you have to work for it.

For that is how he saw me, she thought, and out of love for him that is how I tried to be.

There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.

He senses that the effort would be wasted on a pedant obsessed with etymology and grammar, ignorant of life, and willing to sacrifice the true affection he had for a modest laundress in order to please the despotic Mme Verdurin, who feels insulted by the lowly and in her eyes shameful connection. Her soirees are the only social pleasure he knows. How could he capture the beauty and complexity of a great book?

She should remember what Flaubert said - 'Le génie, c'est travailler tous les jours!

It was the sloppy thinking, the laziness which irritated him most.

For every whack I've given, I've gotten four or five.

There's some times where I wish I would strike out instead of hitting a little dribbler. I wish sometimes I gave myself a true swing, a true whack at it, instead of going in the dugout like, 'I didn't give my best effort.'

No matter what, if I got in for one minute or five minutes - especially that first year, minutes were really crucial for me - I played hard.

I may have given my best performance but what if the role gets edited?

So what if you have two points? As long as we win, what does it matter? What if you don't have no points?

One thing I really believe is control what you can control so for me, each and every day I get an opportunity, no matter what if I'm with the ones, twos, threes, fours. If your number is called and you get a rep, make the best of the rep.

I'm one of those people that develop late, so what if these are my peak years in baseball? I would never know unless I put myself out there, and if I fail, I fail.

One day, I just ended up thinking, 'You know what? If we get to 13-0, it's not me. If we go 10-2, it's not me.'