Quotes About Effort

Tis not in mortals to command success; but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.

While we keep aloof in general statements, there is little fruit to be expected; it is the hand-fight that does execution.

Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.

It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.

A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.

I don't like work—no man does—but I like what is in work—the chance to find yourself. Your own reality—for yourself, not for others—what no other man can ever know.

It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.

There are no easy methods of learning difficult things; the method is to close your door, give out that you are not at home, and work.

You never know just what you can do until you try.

Getting money out of some people was harder than getting blood from a stone.

Every person of intelligence should be able to use his mother tongue correctly. It only requires a little pains, a little care, a little study to enable one to do so, and the recompense is great.

It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and THEN do your best. —W. Edwards Deming

With simple tasks such as typing, driving, or playing golf and tennis, we reach our highest level of proficiency after about 50 hours of practice; then our performance skills become automated. We're able to execute them smoothly and with minimal effort, but further development stops. We assume we've reached our highest performance level, and we don't think to learn new and better methods.

To my mind losing is always better than never trying, because you can never tell what may happen.

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

So yes, evil can manifest without any great effort of humanity; in fact, it would seem to do so best when we pay the least attention. It's only when mankind decides that it can't live with the outcome that something is done about eliminating it.

30-percent incline

Trying to accumulate wealth by the sweat of your brow and hard labor is one way to become the richest man in the graveyard. You do not have to strive or slave hard.

even my work, the largest of the pots and pans I'd placed under my life's leaking ceiling, had become to small to contain my misery.

Physical fitness can neither be achieved by wishful thinking nor outright purchase.

You learn more by trying than by watching," Brackenfur replied.

trying to kill a tree.

He tried hard to speak calmly, and to ask sensible questions that would help him understand.

You don't have to try so hard! You're only doing it because you feel sorry for me!