Quotes About Effort

As long as you are in the relative worlds, you should be realistic and know there is winning and losing here.

Anything that works well or has long-term success is never done quickly.

In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.

Your big picture will never be a masterpiece if you ignore the tiny brushstrokes. You're trying so hard to be successful that true success is eluding you.

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Us going out there and performing our best. That's how I define success. I'm not going to define it for us by the wins and the losses as much as by the effort and how we handle ourselves.

Success is peace of mind in knowing you did your best.

The key to success is effort. The bigger the goal, the greater the effort.

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

Any time you see someone more successful than you are, they are doing something you aren't.

The secret to genius is not genetics but daily practice married with relentless perseverance.

He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.

I do not believe there is any royal road to success as an athlete any more than there is to others in everyday life.

There is a direct relationship between joy and effort. The joy of success is in ratio to the amount of effort expended to achieve it

On the one hand, undeserved success gives no satisfaction... but, on the other hand, well-deserved failure gives no satisfaction either.

In order for us to reach success, we must first find, the ladder.

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Some people choose not to engage the battle and then don't seek out that kind of success. And others do.

I've always tried to do my best on the ball field. I can't do any more than that. I always give one hundred percent; and if my team loses, I come back and give one hundred percent the next day.

Out of every fruition of success, no matter what, comes forth something to make a new effort necessary.

Comedy can't be about continuous success.

An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.

Worthwhile success is impossible in a 40-hour week.

One of the secrets to success is recognizing that motivation follows action.