Quotes About Effort

The secret to a good life," he told me once, "is to bring your A game to everything you do. Even if all you're doing is taking out the garbage, you do that with excellence.

Persevering is not often simply a matter of working hard and refusing to quit; often, by trying again, failing again, and failing better, we inadvertently place ourselves in the way of luck.

You're putting all your effort into pulling a rope and then blaming the other side for the blister.

Oh ye of little faith. Not for IYD... But you didn't even try.

Distinguish yourself [...] in an age where girls often make themselves too available to boys, by making him work a little for your attention. He'll think he's won a prize when he gets it, and he'll work that much harder to keep it. Boys turn into men and men put a premium on what's hard to get.

I see how he feels about his world and I want to be one of the parts he prizes. I want to be worth fighting for. Worth the same kind of effort he puts into the things that matter to him. Like Dani." "I don't tell her no human matters to the boss like Dani.

That's impossible," Gwen gasped. "The fastest I've ever run on a treadmill was ten and a half minutes and I nearly died. And it was only one mile. I had to rest for hours and eat chocolate to revive myself.

We fuck up. Over and over. And we get back up and try to do better. That's all any of us do.

They're called shortcuts for a reason. The shorter they are, the more they usually cut. Nothing is without price.

If you don't do things with all your might, you may end up being harmed by those things you try halfway.

My clarinet sounded like an apoplectic yak. For the brief days I blew the trumpet, a hostile-sounding pig snorted along in jerky fits and starts with the rest of the irritated band.

close only counts in hand-grenades and horseshoes.

Removing work effort may require the team to eliminate not merely the work activities, but also the need for that effort.

There was no best about any of this. There was only what they could do at any given moment.

I swim with all my strength. No superhuman surge, or pony heroics; it's just me at my most desperate.

He tried to scrub children's vomit from the webbing of the Tongue in a way that suggested deep reservoirs of genius.

We didn't talk about Eric Mutis, but the effort of not talking about him made our actual words feel like fizz, just a lot of speedy emptiness.

The game lasts twenty seconds, tops. You don't want to come all that way and miss the game.

It's easier to be a saint for fifteen minutes than an hour

Celebrate effort, not outcome

when you lose your sails, row.

Nog finns det mål och mening i vår färd, men det är vägen som är mödan värd.

Everyone knows marriage is hard work. So if you've chosen the shackles, quit whining and get on with it.

No vacation goes unpunished.