Quotes About Effort

Faithfully doing your best, independent of the support, acknowledgment, or reward of others, is a key determinant in a fulfilling career.

Don't wait for the perfect opportunity. Just take an opportunity and make it as perfect as you can.

position never determines performance, ultimately performance determines position in life.

It is the beginning of a work that the writer throws away.

He loved her way: acting casual, working like a Trojan, singing like an angel. Not angelically. The voice of an angel. Winged, lethal, close to the sun.

Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic.

All these women have been up since way before dawn, many of them out on the water for hours, hauling in fish, loading them into their little round basket boats, unloading on shore. Yet no one looks tired. No one looks beaten down or defeated by their work.

To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create.

You don't say, 'I've done it!' You come, with a kind of horrible desperation, to realize that this will do.

Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now.

She was probably the girl I loved the most of all my girlfriends, but also the toughest one to make things work out with. If I had put that much effort into any of my other relationships, I'd be married with five kids now.

An exceedingly well-informed report,' said the General. 'You have given yourself the trouble to go into matters thoroughly, I see. That is one of the secrets of success in life.

I understood very clearly that something was required of me, but could not guess what I was expected to do. Some persons, knowing that they were later going to ask a favour, would have made themselves more agreeable when a favour was being asked of them. That was not Widmerpool's way. I almost admired him for making so little effort to conceal his lack of interest in my own affairs, while waiting his time to demand something of myself.

Widmerpool still represented to my mind a kind of embodiment of thankless labour and unsatisfied ambition.

he had been curious to set eyes again on an old flame. He was also prepared to admit to himself that he was not unwilling to exhibit to her gaze as presentable a façade as could reasonably be attained without too much effort.

It's been said that there are only two pains in life, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret, and that discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.

People who consistently succeed are those who can commit all of their resources, mental and physical, to work together toward achieving a task.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

The man on top of the mountain didn't fall there. —VINCE LOMBARDI

success leaves clues. People who succeed at the highest level are not lucky; they're doing something differently than everyone else does.

Para mí, el éxito está en la continuidad del esfuerzo de quien aspira a más.

It is only the first step that is difficult.

If you lose 50%, it takes 100% to get back to where you started—and that takes something you can never get back: time.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it." —Henry Ford