Quotes About Effort

Start doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

A dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. —Vince Lombardi, pro football coach

Still, she shoved herself to her feet, because she needed to do what she could, whether it made a difference or not.

understood—heroism was exhausting business.

Fate is a future you didn't try hard enough to change.

You've gotta work hard to stay on top, and when you stop wanting to work hard, you just become average. That happens to anyone.

You only live once but if you work it right once is enough

I done the best I could with what I had -- Joe Louis

try and try again. if you give up then good for you kiddo.

I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can.

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

A furia di provarci, comincio a pensare che il fatto di tentare senza mai riuscirci sia parte di me, proprio come quello che invece riesco a fare

A raccoon could have been trained to do better than I was doing, though it would have to be a smart raccoon.

Just a year ago I kept thinking this ain't fair, the way things have turned out for me. Then it come to me clean as spring rain. Life is just what it is, and it ain't fair at all." "Can't we make it fair?" "You can try, but all that other unfairness keeps seeping in.

Just don't confuse luck with brilliance. Don't think because you were born on third base that you hit a triple. Do something with your life that makes a difference for someone beside yourself. Otherwise, you'll never score. You'll just die on third base.

Maybe you've invested a lot of time, effort, money, emotion, and energy in a relationship; you did your best to make it work out. But for some reason, things got off course. And now you feel as though you have been robbed. When we focus on or disappointments, we stop God from ringing fresh new blessing into our lives.

Don't fall into a complacency trap. It doesn't take any more effort to stay filled with faith than it takes to develop a negative attitude. Dare to step out of your comfort zone today. God has so much more in store. Keep pursuing and keep believing.

It's challenging, but you have to at least try to eat right and exercise.

Ah, unrequited love. When your best isn't good enough.

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Despair often happens, he had learned, when there is a "lack of balance between efforts and rewards.

You don't get what you don't fight for.

In general, we want to take the easy way out, but what makes us happy is doing the thing that's a little bit difficult. What's happening with our cellphones is that we put a thing in our pocket that's with us all the time that always offers an easy thing to do, rather than the important thing.