Quotes About Effort

I did a lot of dues-paying in L.A. that I didn't pay in Boston because I was kind of a success there. It was all worth it, I guess.

Don't give me an easy fight. I want somebody that's worth it, that's put in their time and put in the amount of effort.

Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.

Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

I've learnt that being second is worthless.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

All things that are worthwhile are very difficult to obtain.

Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.

For me personally, the way I've been trained, just through life experience - the harder something is, the harder you have to work for it, the more worthwhile it is, and you just have to know that going in.

In Tom Cone's work nothing is easy.

No matter what the circumstances are, I've never seen Tom Brady come out and not give it all in practice. There's never any change in him. Whenever he's out on the field, he's giving it all, and he's just such a competitor.

Stuart Broad's 400th Test wicket did not come the way he would have wanted - Tom Latham chipped the ball to mid-wicket - but he will take it nonetheless. It is a fantastic achievement.

The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.

I once tried to raise two tomato plants, and they died in spite of the fact I fertilized them every morning. Duh.

I did once answer the question 'What would you say on your tombstone?' I know what I would say: 'Mario Cuomo, 1932 - dash,' and, 'He tried.' That's it.

The focus is what is right before you - to give it your best. It sows the seeds of tomorrow.

Every day when I get on the floor I give it my all and play because you never know what tomorrow holds.

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

If you do a good job right now, today, then tomorrow will take care of itself. That's all you can do.

You can't suddenly say, 'I want a brand new habit tomorrow,' and expect it to be easy and effortless.

The biggest labor problem is tomorrow.

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.