Quotes About Effort

Do what you believe in and believe in what you do. The rest is a waste of time and energy.

In any case it is not normal to put into the satisfaction of mere curiosity the amount of time and effort that scientists put into their work.

Work hard, work passionately, but apply your most precious asset—time—to what is most meaningful to you.

All the time and effort people devote to picking the right fund, the hot hand, the great manager have, in most cases, led to no advantage.

I don't spend as much time on my hair as people think. I get out of the shower, whack some grease on there and I'm done.

It was more fun trying to figure out I Want To Hold Your Hand than to take lessons. By this time I knew basic chords

After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Whatever luck I had, I made. I was never a natural athlete, but I paid my dues in sweat and concentration and took the time necessary to learn karate and become world champion.

When we contemplate buying something, we usually ask the price of it, then decide whether or not it is worth that much to us. But when we expend time and energy, we often just go ahead and pay.

All the time, players are forced to do their utmost. If they are challenged to the limit, is it really fun for them?

If first of all you have a wrong idea, then it's kind of wasting time. No matter how hard that you try with a wrong idea, it makes it difficult to be successful.

Your prayers, effort and fasting for many years are not lost. This is the time you have been praying for. Breakthrough!

If you really want to know where your destiny lies, look at where you apply your time.

I'm aware of the luck in [BABIP], but at the same time, you can't directly influence it. You can just keep mixing your patterns, executing and locating, That's the human element of this game.

Give it your best shot, have a good time and if it doesn't work at least you tried!

It calmed me down to see that most of the time no-one gets the scene on the first take.

I was not using the gears I usually do for time trials - it was either hard [gear] to pedal, or really low [gear] to pedal; [that] was something special of today.

The trouble with doing nothing is that you can never take any time off.

It's not easy to know who you are and it's very painful and takes a lot of time and that is why a lot of people don't want to put in the effort.

Courage is a self-inflicted quality that gains momentum every time you try it.

Time is inelastic and inflexible. Time is indispensable. No achievement is possible without time.

If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?

I went at each race like there was a gold medal at stake. It wasn't like I ran one hard, then slacked off the next. Every time was my best effort. I didn't know how to go at it any other way.