Quotes About Effort

Train hard, fight easy.

When workers can get and equal return for less effort, workers make less effort

The world is work; life is work; growth is work; all things are full of labour, and attain their perfection only by labour.

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

I made an effort to speak: "When I came in here…" I said, "… I had a sandwich." "That was three months ago," said the doctor. I looked at him. "It's gone," he said, gently. I lapsed back into unconsciousness.

If a thing is done well, no one will ask how long it took to do it, but only, who did it.

The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.

You do things and do things and nobody really has a clue.

She could see wizarding was not going to be easy.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Ha, ha, ha, thou entanglest thyself in thine own work like a silkworm.

He did his work at the University as he did his work on the farm—thoroughly, conscientiously, with neither pleasure nor distress.

Through it all he continued to teach and study, though he sometimes felt that he hunched his back futilely against the driving storm and cupped his hands uselessly around the dim flicker of his last poor match.

The instructor was a man of middle age, in his early fifties; his name was Archer Sloane, and he came to his task of teaching with a seeming disdain and contempt, as if he perceived between his knowledge and what he could say a gulf so profound that he would make no effort to close it.

He seldom thought of the past or the future, or of the disappointments and joys of either; he concentrated all his energies of which he was capable upon the moment of his work and hoped that he was at last defined by what he did.

Ability is a poor man's wealth.

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.

Although I wanted my players to work to win, I tried to convince them they had always won when they had done their best.

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

A man obtains only what he strives for. He

He who seeks and struggles shall find. Struggles bring the most unlikely things within reach. When a man makes up his mind to do a thing it becomes easy for him to do it. If you have a clear thought, be decided, and hesitate not—if you decide, hesitate not, but carry it out speedily. You