Quotes About Effort

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

If you are out in two races and someone else has a good couple of races, it could change. So all we do is try to get the optimum every time.

I really need to push myself and try my hardest every time, because I come from the premise that I'm not very good and I have to give my best. Otherwise, I don't deliver.

If you try to impress an alarm clock, it will simply tell you the time.

I dedicated all the time I had to it. The 10 hour workout was just what I put in the magazine at the time, but for me it was every waking moment.

The lottery of honest labor, drawn by time, is the only one whose prizes are worth taking up and carrying home.

To me, there is no more conscientious umpire in the Major Leagues than Jim Joyce. He gives you a hellacious effort every time.

Quitting smoking is rather a marathon than a sprint. It is not a one-time attempt, but a longer effort.

Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast. There we stop; there we stand. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame

I could knock out loads of what I term aromatherapy music pretty swiftly. If you want something that is going to last, however, you're going to have to spend a lot more time on it.

I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.

I'm spending all my time and energy on the project at hand.

That's the way it was every time I studied it.

Every time someone starts talking about weight, it takes away from the fight. No one is born at that weight. We grew into that weight. It is all about the challenge, more so than the weight.

We will not, therefore, lose our time praying to an imaginary god for things which our own exertions alone can procure.

I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.

Time and pains will do anything.

I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in less time that it takes me to buy a German Dictionary

Hopefully, the 27th time's the charm!

Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time.

Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.

Time is not measured by the years that pass by, instead by the things you do, feel or accomplish.

Think chest/hips/ push, or CHP, when it's time for uphill running. Chest up, hips forward, push strongly off each foot.

Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time?