Quotes About Effort

You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

It takes a constant effort of mind to avoid the abundance that life offers naturally.

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.

The reward of eternal life requires effort.

Who would enjoy a life of no runs, no hits, no errors?

There are no successes and failures in life, only achievements - stepping stones.

I always tell the kids, You know what's great about going the extra mile? There's very little traffic.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.

I'm working as hard as I can to get my life and my cash to run out at the same time. If I can just die after lunch Tuesday, everything would be perfect.

Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.

Someone once asked me what I want on my epitaph when I pass away. Just the words 'I tried.' That's what this game of life is all about. Trying. There's the tryers, the criers, and the liars.

If we like what we do, if we always do our best, then we are really enjoying life. We are having fun, we don't get bored, we don't have frustrations.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

Who wills, Can. Who tries, Does. Who loves, Lives.

A successful life does not result from chance; nor is it determined by fate or good fortune, but rather through a succession of successful days.

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.

None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.

Keep in mind that life produces no maestros, only students of varying shades of ineptitude.

It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Like it or not, life is a series of competitions.