Quotes About Effort

Successful people do all the things that unsuccessful people don't want to do.

You can work really hard, but if you're not training in the right way you're not going to improve and get to the level that you want to.

Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult - the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight.

Life is like a combination lock; your job is to find the right numbers, in the right order, so you can have everything you want.

Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.

Out of my entire annual output of songs, perhaps two, or at the most three, came as a result of inspiration. We can never rely on inspiration. When we most want it, it does not come.

Obviously those who burn to be professional jesters mean that they want to be successful comedians. And those are always an elite, microscopic portion of the population. But oh, how they try.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

I've found that taking shortcuts will get you to the place you don't want to be much quicker than they get u to the place u want to be.

As players and coaches, we all want to reach our goal. It's up to us to go out there and perform.

I would recommend that skeptics devote even more effort than they do now to understanding the reasons why so many people want or need to believe.

Today was about execution, period. Every single player, all of us in the dressing room right now, we're embarrassed because that's not the way we want to play soccer.

People who get what they want tend to be the ones who make the effort to know what they want.

We spent a lot of time talking about this choice, and we realized that as long as we are going to be at work, we might as well have the best day we can have.

more reason to expect an opened lock in the case of an intelligently guided try than we would if the try was unguided

People always talk about how hard it can be to remember things - where they left their keys, or the name of an acquaintance - but no one ever talks about how much effort we put into forgetting. I am exhausted from the effort to forget... There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.

We work first because we have to work. Then because we want to work. Then because we love to work. Then the work simply does us. Difficult at the beginning. Inevitable at the end.

Method is the most sterile of all concerns…. Nothing was ever accomplished through method alone.

We spend so much effort trying to make things square or whatever, and nature just does what it does.

Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.

Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.

I am a great believer in luck and the harder I work the more of it I have.

Surely if we all try hard, we can all lift ourselves up high above the average. It looks a little difficult mathematically, but that's nothing.