Quotes About Effort

Failure I can accept, what I can not accept is not trying

I can accept failure but cannot accept trying

I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

I can handle failing, but I can't handle not trying.

But the vast majority spend their lives with their backs bent, their noses to the grindstone, making no financial progress whatever.

Love cannot be without a cause. It is simply necessary to identify where the cause lies. Even if it is called love without a cause, it just means that we did not make the effort or are unable to identify its cause, or the cause lies above our egoism and that's why we call it that.

Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.

It is sometimes easier to make the world a better place than to prove you have made the world a better place.

If it doesn't happen, it never was going to happen. If you never did it, it wasn't there to begin with.

People often work hard to obtain information they already have

how "intense mental activity hinders perception." They found that it wasn't just emotional arousal that altered the size of the pupil: Mental effort had the same effect. There was, quite possibly, as they put it, "an antagonism between thinking and perceiving.

line. Giants coach Tom Coughlin suspected another culprit. He stayed up that night reviewing game tape, and finally took out a stopwatch

This was extreme. An NFL football field is a tightly strung economy. Everything on it comes at a price. Take

working on this book has been those long

It doesn't matter how many times you have failed in the past; what matters is the successful attempt, which should be remembered and reinforced.

Just as no score relies on only one pitch or level of effort from musicians in the orchestra. Sometimes it relies on silence.

Shame seems to be the going price of achievement, particularly the achievement of knowledge or beauty.

It's hard to simulate the things that I do.

In order to make further progress, particularly in the field of cosmic rays, it will be necessary to apply all our resources and apparatus simultaneously and side-by-side; an effort which has not yet been made, or at least, only to a limited extent.

To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.

Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.

I'm going to be as sincere as I can in delivering the message I think is right. If people agree, great, and if they don't, I did my best.

My sincere effort always will be to lift the reputation of the Indian team and my country whenever I play for India.

From my playing days, I have believed hard work and sincerity works.