Quotes About Effort

The first 90% of the job takes 90% of the time. The remaining 10% of the job requires another 90% of the time. The first condition of immortality is death.

By the time we've made it, we've had it.

In the end, we would like not to be guilty while at the same time being dispensed of the effort of purifying ourselves. Not enough cynicism and not enough virtue.

When I was younger, studying classical music, I really had to put in the time. Three hours a day is not even nice - you have to put in six.

The crutch of Time accomplishes more than the club of Hercules.

I always tell my staff, "Better is good." I'll take better every time, because better is hard.

...don't act like I didn't for you. I did. Hard. And for a long time. So please, forgive me if now that we're over, I'm exhausted.

When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others.

Playing golf is like raising children. You keep thinking you'll do better next time.

Even moving around onstage seemed very artificial. But at the same time you have to make that effort in order to get back to who you are and even accept not moving, if that's who you are.

I shave my legs twice a week. It's hard the first time you do it. But I'm very lazy. For a team photo in December I just did the fronts.

A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. 'By getting up every time I fell down,' he answered.

There came a time in every prolonged effort when he had a moment of near panic, or 'terror in a lonely place', the original semantic content of the word. The lonely place was his own mind.

As nothing truly valuable can be attained without industry, so there can be no persevering industry without a deep sense of the value of time.

Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.

We can't control whether we are rewarded for our endeavours, with cash or recognition. It is not up to us how much cash or time we get on Earth, but it is down to us how we spend it.

Each time you decide to grow again, you realize you're starting at the bottom of another ladder.

I also do my own processing, so it means a big commitment in lab time.

I'd much rather win in three or four sets than go the distance all the time. I seem to put everyone through the wringer quite a bit.

I grew up on musicals, and I know they are quite the thing now, but I'm actually a little indignant, because I started taking singing lessons years ago - I put the time in!

We all fail. But none of us fail all the time.

You gotta be a good sport! So when I would lose, I would say, "That guy was better than I was; what do I have to do to be better next time?"

It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.

While this debate today is a belated effort to inform the American people, it is nevertheless an empty gesture. It is time to admit our mistake in Iraq and begin to bring our troops home with honor.