Quotes About Effort

I took the game seriously. It was my profession. My teammates also took losing hard. We would all sit in the locker room after losing a big game and talk about how we could have done something differently to change the outcome

Having lost sight of our objectives, we redoubled our efforts.

Man has to fight for what he wants, any way he can.

it is the continual effort of the beginning that creates the hoarded energy of the end;

The most hopeless idleness is that most smoothed with excellent plans.

The products of art and science owe their existence not merely to the effort of the great geniuses that created them, but also to the unnamed drudgery of their contemporaries. There is no document of culture which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.

More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other.

The success of any enterprise depends on personal effort, persistence, prudence, and basically on deep faith in God.

work as if everything depended upon him and pray as if everything depended upon God.

Many persons wonder why they don't amount to more than they do, have good stuff in them, energetic, persevering, and have ample opportunities. It is all a case of trimming the useless branches and throwing the whole force of power into the development of something that counts.

Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.

It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to.

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurancesand the economy of effort it brings.

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.

Industry is a far better horse to ride a genius.

He seemed to be buffeted from both sides, challenged by his dreams, which revolted at the compromises of reality, and assaulted by reality which denounced the emptiness of all dreams. He seemed to spend himself in that struggle - the severest that a man can face; and he seemed to win by a constant renewal of effort in which he refused to sink either into placid acceptance of the world, or into self-contained satisfaction with his vision.

I never trained, however, because I was a spontaneous talent. Practising spoiled my style.

If you ask me how I want to be remembered, it is as a winner. You know what a winner is? A winner is somebody who has given his best effort, who has tried the hardest they possibly can, who has utilized every ounce of energy and strength within them to accomplish something. It doesn't mean that they accomplished it or failed, it means that they've given it their best. That's a winner.

Never die easy. Why run out of bounds and die easy? Make that linebacker pay. It carries into all facets of your life. It's okay to lose, to die, but don't die without trying, without giving it your best.

No basta con amar para que una relación prospere

Aquellos que se obsesionan con el éxito y lo convierten en un valor, y además manejan esquemas rígidos de ejecución, viajan mal aunque quieran aparentar lo contrario. Quizá la felicidad no esté en ser el mejor vendedor, la mejor mamá, el mejor hijo o descollar en cualquier cosa, sino simplemente en intentarlo de manera honesta y tranquila, y disfrutarlo mientras se lleva a cabo.

La felicidad no llega a la puerta, hay que buscarla y pelear por ella.

la vida nos enseña que la mayoría de nuestros logros perdurables han sido producto del trabajo y la entrega a un proyecto que consideramos vital (criar un hijo, estudiar en la universidad, desarrollar una destreza deportiva). ¿Disciplina? No cabe duda, pero también motivación. Sentir que el cambio es necesario

It's possible to work hard, and yet be lazy. If you work hard doing the wrong job, is it really work? Or is it some kind of fakery?