Quotes About Effort

Always remember, the goals that we have achieved pale in comparison to the daily commitments it took to get there.

People have seen me at my best, but I don't think most of them know everything that it took to get me to where I am today.

It took about 10 years' time for Shopify to be an overnight success.

Like every parent, my parents too took a lot of effort to give us the best, and to keep things as normal as possible.

When Mahela Jayawardene was with us before the Test series against Pakistan he said it should all be about enjoying your talent and skill. He took his bat out there to score runs and enjoy playing the game.

It took me 13 years to win a Super Bowl. But it only took me one season to win a 'mirror ball.'

I mean, I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, I'm like a continuation school dropout, but I'm trying.

I am sick and tired of folks that are doing everything they can to try to get a bad bill going, and then they vote against it when the bad bill's got the momentum to go through. We should be doing everything, using every tool in our toolbox, to stop bad legislation from happening.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Many people, in their attempt to build a successful life, forget there are tools to help them.

I think the hard thing about all these tools is that it takes a fair amount of effort to become proficient.

Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors.

I am not a super-talented guy, I'm just a dude who will fight you tooth and nail.

It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there.

When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.

I always say that practice gets you to the top most of the time.

The choices we make lead up to actual experiences. It is one thing to decide to climb a mountain. It is quite another to be on top of it.

To get to the top, you must put in a lot of hard work, but you also need to be blessed with talent.

The top salesperson in the organization probably missed more sales than 90% of the sales people on the team, but they also made more calls than the others made.

You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.

At the top of my career, I wasn't at the top of my game.

The mountain climbing, I just want to be able to have a real cardio-intense event, and the payoff is you get the top.

I didn't start out with a spectacular movie. Many people think you don't have to go from nothing to the top; they think you start at the top.

I didn't want to hike to the top of El Capitan and rappel down the route, and start fixing lines. For me it was really important to try to climb it from the ground up at first.