Quotes About Effort

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

Games are won by players who focus on the playing field –- not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.

He who attempts to transform mud into diamonds should expect to have to wash his clothes often," Chiun had said, and this had

All effort at originality must end either in the quaint or the monstrous. For no man knows himself as an original; he can only believe it on the report of others.

I cannot believe that any man who deserved fame ever labored for it; that is, directly. For, as fame is but the contingent of excellence, it would be like an attempt to project a shadow, before its substance was obtained.

Believe me, the man who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow, eats oftener a sweeter morsel, however coarse, than he who procures it by the labor of his brains.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don't take.

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take

You miss 100% percent of the shots you don't take

Just because we are working hard does not mean we are making anything happen.

And since you know what a tree-climbing weenie I am, I think it's pretty clear that I'm willing to do anything to get her to talk to me. Man, I'll dive after her into a chicken coop full of poop if that's what it takes. I'll ride my bike all the stinkin' way to school for the rest of eternity if it means being with her

If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently, seriously, continuously, carefully, and bravely as we have ever prepared for war.

Much of the obscurity of our effort so far against terrorism originates in the now official idea that the enemy is evil and that we are (therefore) good, which is the precise mirror image of the official idea of the terrorists.

We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it.

In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.

Failure is doing nothing about a problem that bothers us. If our efforts don't go as we hoped, we still learn and can take a new approach next time.

The harder something is to acquire, the more satisfying it is when you finally find it.

I sigh. I wonder if practicing in my head counts. I can easily picture myself doing a perfect routine. Somehow it comes out differently once gravity gets involved.