Quotes About Effort

All you can do is do the best you can and I did that. I had a great time. I made a product and I was not embarrassed by it at all so you do it and you move on.

Trying to hit Phil Niekro is like trying to eat jello with chopsticks. Sometimes you get a piece but most of the time you get hungry.

We are born to a time. What you do with it is on you. Do the best you can. Try to be good. And live.

I'm not one that just throws music out there to keep it coming, and all that. I believe in the craft, and the time it takes to really nurture something and put a lot of effort into the details.

Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time, and energy needed to develop yourself.

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Why do I ask for directions? Because I hate wasting time.

There are opportunities around. It takes time and motivation to take them.

Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could.

If they had Nautilus on the Concorde, I would work out all the time.

I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.

If users are not doing what the designer intended (when users are investing time, effort, etc in your product), the designer may be asking them to do too much.

. . . we will never be prompted by the Holy Ghost to do something we cannot do. It may require extraordinary effort and much time, patience, prayer, and obedience, but we can do it.

I was only halfway to the record and it seemed like it took me a long time. I feel like that one will never be broken. That record will never be touched.

LOOK back on time with kindly eyes, He doubtless did his best; How softly sinks his trembling sun In human nature's west!

The only time a lazy man ever succeeds is when he tries to do nothing.

Then hast our the Red Stone perfect with less labour, expense of time and costs, for the which ever thank God.

It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.

The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much.

Great towers take time to construct.

It's time that we move from good words to good works, from sound bites to sound solutions.

Use your time, energy and talents to do the best you can right now. Spend no time wishing it were better

The time for your labor has been granted.

It will take you less time and effort to do a thing the difficult way than it will to buy, try and discard all the shortcuts.