Quotes About Effort

the only real difference between racist, sexist people and those who are not is the conscious effort that the latter make to counteract their learned-in-childhood, unconscious prejudices.

Once we do notice arousal, we want to name it and know its source in order to recognize danger. And often we think that our arousal is due to fear. We do not realize that our heart may be pounding from the sheer effort of processing extra stimulation.

I remember that we are all young, and I feel youngness in me, that I can keep trying. You can try a hundred things in your life, and if nothing in those hundred makes you satisfied, you can still go on trying.

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of a field in hope that the cow will back up to them

An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment

Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts. The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it; so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hopes that the cow will back up to them.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

Folks who never do any more than they are paid for, never get paid more than they do.

The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?

Genius is often only the power of making continuous efforts.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there's so little competition.

these are things that put pure socialism so far into the future. If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?

He who thinks to win without doing their very best will find himself a loser in the race.

I want to be good...I try to be good, I do try, and to like everybody. But there are some people - some people I can't like, however much I try. I hate them - there!

It'll be just lovely for you to play -- it'll be so hard. And there's so much more fun when it is hard!

Work is always an antidote to depression.

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.