Quotes About Effort

I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.

Whatever thy hand findest to do, do it with all thy heart.

It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

I try as much as possible to give you a great basic product and what comes out, I feel, is really amazing.

Most important, I had to be willing to try. The try is everything. The try is me saying to my brain, hey, I value this connection and I want it to happen. I may have to try, try, and try again with no results for a thousand times before I get even an inkling of a result, but if I don't try, it may never happen. G.G.

but everyone tries; trying is the human condition. All anyone can do is ask.

Ne'er a day will pass before us When we have not tried our best, Kept our cauldrons bubbling nicely, Cast our spells and charms with zest. Full of joy we mix our potions, Working by each other's side. When our days at school are over Let us think of them with pride.

It's not about perfect. It's about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that's where transformation happens. That's how change occurs.

Be brave and be patient. Have faith in yourself; trust in the significance of your life and the purpose of your passion. You are strong enough to sit in the space between spaces and allow divine inspiration to shed some light. When you put positive energy and productive effort into the world it will come back to you. Occasionally in ways you might not immediately understand and on a time frame you didn't expect. Look. Listen. Learn. Stay open. Your destiny is awaiting you.

I am doing the best I can given what I have today.

Having the right to happiness means having the right to earn it, not having it given to you without effort and action on your part.

Homework strongly indicates that the teachers are not doing their jobs well enough during the school day. It's not like they'll let you bring your home stuff to school and work on it there. You can't say, 'I didn't finish sleeping at home, so I have to work on finishing my sleep here.

The following ten throws went a variety of places. I never hit the target, but I was getting closer. Isabella was laughing so hard she wrote "Please stop can't breathe" in the dirt with her finger.

Can you tell us any of the evidence against him so far, sir?" The D.A. shook his head. "No. We are still working on the evidence. This has been a joint effort

A minimum of three and a half hours. Probably closer to five." The vent's valve mechanism was meant to be serviced from the other side. It took half an hour of fighting to find a decent angle with the wrench and remove the bolts. She finally managed to tug it loose, at which point she had to spend another twenty minutes using her torch to cut the damned thing into smaller pieces so she could get it out of her way.

Winning isn't everything, but the will to prepare to win is everything.

winning is beyond our control, while preparation is 100 percent under our control.

What you can control is behavior and activity, what you cannot control is the result of this behavior and activity.

Letting the wrong people hang around is unfair to all the right people, as they inevitably find themselves compensating for the inadequacies of the wrong people. Worse, it can drive away the best people. Strong performers are intrinsically motivated by performance, and when they see their efforts impeded by carrying extra weight, they eventually become frustrated.

Even an undercurrent of division and strife will weaken that body of believers. The pastor of such a church ends up on a treadmill, expending a lot of effort and energy but making little progress.

Love at Work Is a Lot of Work!

People don't change that much. Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in. That is hard enough (Buckingham and Coffman 1999).

Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.

He looked older, too, like a man sucking it up, wrestling with problems he had been trying to conceal. This Norm saw as progress