Quotes About Effort

No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more.

Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.

Success is not a doorway, it's a stairway.

Good things you have to make happen. Bad things happen all by themselves.

No business can be made easier to do than excuses are to make.

I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.

Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.

I like to have success experiences rather than failure experiences. So I'm more likely to compete in things I'm good at, and more likely to spend time on the things I expect to succeed at.

Success may result in winning, but winning does not necessarily mean you are a success.

I don't want the success to go away. I don't want it to seem unearned.

If achieving success were easy, more people would do it.

Yet we must try the harder, the less the prospect of success.

There's no independent satisfaction without the success of the film itself. The feel that you have done the best you can to support the film.

If your organization requires success before commitment, it will never have either.

The way to win the race is not to trip somebody else. Simply have more energy. You will not only have a greater chance of winning; but whether you win or lose, you'll be happy.

Success is not success in an individual endeavor. Success is simply to practice the dharma impeccably.

Sometimes, as in an athletic event where everything clicks, inexplicable things do happen. Learning and practicing an art or a skill has always been part of the success of the goal.

Some days success just means not giving up.

The sweetest of all success is that which one wins by hard exertion.

Greatness has nothing to do with results or with success.

I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it.

When intention is supported by effort, success follows.

In all pursuits men complain of failure when they have not attained the measure of success they proposed to themselves.

The difference between trying and doing is one leads to success, while the other leads to excuses.