Quotes About Effort

Doing time is like climbing a mountain wearing roller skates.

With time and thought, one can do a good job.

We can either try to change everything or just make the most of whatever time we have.

The most generous part of your philanthropy could be the time you put in to procure the same results and same outcomes and same returns you demand in business.

It's always hard. If it was easy, everyone would do it rather than going around telling you their ideas and saying how they could be a writer if they had the time.

You always think, no matter how many times you fail, that the next time you will succeed. Otherwise you wouldn't keep trying.

The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output.

Any time you're throwin dirt you're losin ground.

You know, I was crap. But I had the commitment, and I had the understanding, that the basis of football is skill on the ball, and if you spend the time with it, you're gonna reap the rewards.

For a long time the IOC liked the idea of money but they didn't like the thought of working for it.

You have a part-time job and that's better to no job at all

I'm working full time on my job and part time on my fortune

You win what you can win when you can win it, and keep pushing - all the time. And that's how this game is played. And I'll play it till I can't play it anymore.

You don't have to be perfect, but you have to try hard. And I did all the time.

It is quite rare to find people who are really dedicated to a level of excellence. Most of us are really quite lazy most of the time.

Imagining may be the first step in making it happen, but it takes the real time and real efforts of real people to learn things, make things, turn thoughts into deeds or visions into inventions.

While it is OK to give school children prizes for 'effort' - my kids get them all the time - I think international statesmen should probably be held to a higher standard.

. . . as people serve, they grow in capacity. The time and effort is not a sacrifice because there is returned more than is given.

Fights take a long time to shoot.

Some of the presidents were great and some of them weren't. I can say that, because I wasn't one of the great presidents, but I had a good time trying to be one, I can tell you that.

We stop practice every time we see one of our players not blocking out.

Moving. Someone said this to me a long time ago, it's bhuddist saying, I think: 'There is no wasted effort'.

I did everything I could except win. I feel fine. I just played bad at a big time.

I'm surprised that I actually pulled off the recording, getting all those people at the same time.