Quotes About Effort

Success requires both urgency and patience. Be urgent about making the effort, and patient about seeing the results.

The very essence of success is practice.

Nothing is done easily, first have the thing, then the thing has a success, then all sorts of difficulties arise through the success.

No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve.

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

I needn't tell you that success and failure prove nothing - the whole thing is a lottery. It's pleasant to succeed; but for a philosophic mind it oughtn't to be very upsetting to fail.

Success does not happen all at once. In life, there is no instant pudding.

We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!!

Success comes from repeated efforts day in and day out. You learn from your mistakes, make adjustments and continue pressing forward until you achieve the results you desire.

You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

I once heard someone say that success is not hocus pocus but focus focus.

No, I'm not a good shot, but I shoot often.

Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.

I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.

Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.

The BEST training program in the entire world will be a DISMAL FAILURE if people fail to hold up their end of the deal. The success of ANY training program is ultimately the trainee's responsibility.

No man achieves great success who is unwilling to make personal sacrifices.

Success is a worn down pencil.

You have been doing something that has brought you success, and you are in the playoffs because you have been doing some thing right.

The man who has not learned the secret of taking the drudgery out of his task by flinging his whole soul into it, has not learned the first principles of success or happiness.

Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.

The key ingredient to any kind of happiness or success is to never give less than your best