Quotes About Effort

Chances are only 1% for success, need to give 99% efforts to achieve 1% Success...

Success for the striver washes away the effort of striving.

If people knew what they had to do to be successful most people wouldn't.

The successful person is the individual who forms the habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.

The secret of every man who has ever been successful lies in the fact that he formed the bait of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

Success which is something so simple in the end is made up of thousands of things we never fully know what.

Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

The power to console is not within corporeal reach - though its attempt is precious.

The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.

You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid, and monotonous.

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

The best teachers have shown me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly - we only think it does.

(I was) my own teacher and pupil, and thanks to the efforts of both, they were not discontented with each other.

Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.

In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and - SNAP - the job's a game!

When I am performing, I try to follow the advice I give to my students. This can be very hard - I was never a good student and I find I'm no better when I am the teacher.

School reports were always pretty bad - I never ever did my homework. I always turned up for lessons as I liked my teachers but my report said I didn't try very hard.

The Cox Report documents a systematic, well-planned effort by the Chinese military at the highest levels to target and acquire technology for military modernization.

Why should we try, why not just take the world as it is? I told her how he had said that we had to try because the alternative wasn't blankness – it only meant that if we didn't try ourselves, we would never be free of other people's inventions.

Success flows from perspiration, and inspiration from diligence and effort.

But just because you love something, I added to myself, doesn't mean you'll ever be great. Not if you don't work. Most people stink at the things they love.

If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever. -An-mei