Quotes About Effort

Nothing feels worse than having to break the stage down before the performance, and I mean nothing.

Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.

School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn. Math is just the worst. To this day, I can't concentrate on it. People always say, 'You should have tried harder.' But actually, I cheated a lot because I could not sit and do homework.

My very worst day on 'Green Lantern' was nowhere near as difficult as my finest day on 'Buried.'

In baseball, you can hit 40 home runs on a single-A-league team and never get paid a thing. But in a hedge fund, you get paid on your batting average. So you go to the worst league you can find, where there's the least competition.

Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.

I think the worst thing you could do is not shoot the shot. When you shoot you got two options: It can go in or you can miss, and even in the miss you might learn.

If you strive toward the perfect run, accepting that you will always come up short of that is very intriguing. It makes me think about how in life in general, we always want to strive toward perfection, but sometimes perfection would be the worst thing.

If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - and they stop you achieving things. It's the worst thing about real life compared with sports, where you generally get what you deserve: if you're the fastest guy, you win; there are no other games being played.

I'm trying to avoid having regrets about missing opportunities. That would be the worst thing. Like having an audience waiting, and not working hard enough, and coming out with a record that disappointed them.

It wouldn't be the worst thing if you don't play that well but take points.

The worst thing is losing because you got tired, because you didn't work hard enough in training. Ugh, that's the worst.

Making better choices takes work. There is a daily give and take, but it is worth the effort.

Like anything worth doing in life, happiness takes time and patience and consistency.

If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing poorly first.

I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.

Nothing that comes easy is worth a dime.

I'm potentially worth a lot of money, but I've got to go and make something that's worth a lot of money.

I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.

The only secret of magic is that I'm willing to work harder on it than you think it's worth.

To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.

In football, day in day out, you always have to show your worth.