Quotes About Effort

With regard to performance, commitment, effort, dedication, there is no middle ground. Or you do something very well or not at all.

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

The man who has done his level best, and who is conscious that he has done his best, is a success, even though the world may write him down as a failure.

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

Hard work doesn't guarantee success, but improves its chances.

Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair--or the height of a battle against boredom.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

At this very moment enormous numbers of intelligent men and women of goodwill are trying to build a better world. But problems are born faster than they can be solved.

Let me give you a little piece of advice. Most men like to do the chasing." Well, most men would have caught me by now.

Will it help you do what you already want to do? Will it help you feel successful? The answers to those questions is freeing because if the change program doesn't satisfy these two requirements, it's not worth your time.

Doing two push-ups against a wall is easy to accomplish so you're much more

People often believe that motivating themselves toward an aspiration will lead to lasting change. So people focus on aspirations. And they focus on motivation. And that combo doesn't produce results.

MOTIVATION IS NOT THE WINNING TICKET FOR LONG-TERM CHANGE

Let's say someone offers you a million dollars if you can immediately reduce your blood glucose to normal levels. A million dollars is pretty darn motivating, right? But can you reach this outcome immediately? Probably not. Motivation alone doesn't get you there.

While we do not actively seek out pain, we do not run from the inevitable pain that is part of all growth and change. The asanas help us to develop greater tolerance in body and mind so that we can bear the stress and strain more easily. In other words, the effort and its unavoidable pains are an essential part of what the asanas can teach us.

As you take great pains to learn, continue with devotion in what you have learned. Learning is very difficult, but it is twice as difficult to keep the ground gained.

The asana will not come by making faces.

Many yoga teachers ask you to do the asanas with ease and comfort and without any stress or true exertion. this ultimately leaves the practitioner living within the limits of his or her mind, with the inevitable fear, attachment, and pettiness.

Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.

Another precept is to practise all things chiefly at two several times, the one when the mind is best disposed, the other when it is worst disposed; that by the one you may gain a great step, by the other you may work out the knots and stonds of the mind, and make the middle times the more easy and pleasant.

In true metaphysics I believe that, contrary to common opinion, unbelief far oftener needs a reason and requires an effort than belief.

I've gone through a lot to get here. I'm doing my job. And that No. 1 ranking next to my name says I'm doing my job better than a good percentage of everyone else.

It's so rare to get all of your muscles firing at once. That's what I look for in any role.

The only drawback is once the work is done you rarely see each other.