Quotes About Effort

We hoped against hope that what we had been doing was enough to prevent a riot. It was not enough.

It doesn't matter how hard you work, there are forces that kind of prevent you from being the best you can be.

At the end of the day, if I can prevent the shot from getting to the rim, it's going to help my team.

The challenge is how to be better than the day before, than the previous game.

Whatever work you do, it should always be better than your previous one. You should put effort on yourself.

There is a price to pay for accomplishment.

The price I have personally paid for these extra Sisyphean years has been prohibitive.

I know the price I've paid to be where I am.

Yes, the fullness of the gospel is a pearl of great price worth any effort.

With everything great comes a price, always, right?

I pride myself on defending and rebounding.

There is more to the game than hitting it far. There are ways to make birdies other than hitting 350-yard drives. I pride myself on a good short game; I work very hard at it.

I feel 'proud' whenever I feel that I've worked on something for a certain amount of time with a certain amount of attention. I'm not sure if I think in terms of 'pride' though.

We do take pride in how we look, but it's really just like, take a couple minutes, and you're ready to go.

Establishing a friendship after divorce takes great effort and a lot of swallowing of your pride and ego.

I used to take a lot of pride into what went into practice.

Big 12 Championship is, to me, it's always your primary goal to start with because it's not easy to do.

I'm just a bit frustrated that in London we make such an effort to ape the New York restaurant scene. I have good friends who ape the New York restaurant scene and do it brilliantly. None of them would claim that the primary reason for going to their restaurant was the food.

I want to make sure I give the fans my best while I'm in my prime.

I liken all jobs to decorating. If you don't do the preparation, sand down and prime first, you won't get a good paint job, and that's the same as everything in life.

Princeton was really hard. I had learned how to write well at boarding school, and I knew if I majored in English and I just did the work, I could get B's.

The House Foreign Affairs Committee can and should become the principal institution in Washington exercising foreign policy oversight and serving as an alternative voice for America to the world. I hope to make a significant contribution in that effort.

In principle, I think the idea of rewarding a good effort is interesting, but movies are generally different from each other as are performances and the conditions on how the performances are given and how they're edited and so forth.

The whole process of getting cards printed is so cumbersome.