Quotes About Effort

There is this pervasive idea that the successful person is the "disciplined person" who leads a "disciplined life." It's a lie. The truth is we don't need any more discipline than we already have.

Progress is important and is usually achieved by the person who makes the most attempts. The quality is in the quantity.

Extraordinary results are rarely happenstance. They come from the choices we make and the actions we take.

Resultados extraordinários acontecem apenas quando você dá o melhor de si para tornar-se o melhor possível em sua função mais importante.

To achieve an extraordinary result you must choose what matters most and give it all the time it demands. This requires getting extremely out of balance in relation to all other work issues, with only infrequent counterbalancing to address them.

Michelangelo once said, "If the people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem wonderful at all." His

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it." —George Halas

Time on a task, over time, eventually beats talent every time.

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher." — Thomas Henry Huxley

If I want it, what must happen for me to get it?

como uma parte do seu processo de aprendizagem e esforce-se para alcançar o seu verdadeiro potencial.

First attempt do not need to be good. First attempt is to build momentum.

Low goals don't require extraordinary actions so they rarely lead to extraordinary results.

It always takes some time to start a new task and restart the one you quit, and there's no guarantee that you'll ever pick up exactly where you left off.

Everyone has the same amount of time, and hard work is simply hard work. As a result, what you do in the time you work determines what you achieve. And since what you do is determined by what you think, how big you think becomes the launching pad for how high you achieve.

Some worked to put food on our tables while others built the tables.

Os hábitos requerem muito menos energia e esforço para manter do que para começar

The ballerina is a classic example. When the ballerina poses en pointe, she can appear weightless, floating on air, the very idea of balance and grace. A closer look would reveal her toe shoes vibrating rapidly, making minute adjustments for balance. Counterbalancing done well gives the illusion of balance.

Extraordinary results require focused attention and time.

For thousands of years, work was life.

The problem with living in the middle is that it prevents you from making extraordinary time commitments to anything. In your effort to attend to all things, everything gets shortchanged and nothing gets its due.

No person can overcome a lousy team.

A good marriage isn't something you find; it's something you make.

Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers. —MAGIC JOHNSON