Quotes About Effort

In truth, life is based upon failures. If you don't fail, you're probably not challenging yourself enough.

We all want to win. Every athlete wants to succeed. But the ones who do are those who separate wanting from being willing to make the sacrifice that winning demands.

Only climbers get to the top.

Pete Rose said it this way: "What's tough is to go out and work hard on the things that you don't do very well.

He didn't have to be perfect. Seek progress, not perfection, I told him.

Competitive toughness is an acquired skill and not an inherited gift. —CHRIS EVERT

The harder you work the harder it is to surrender. —VINCE LOMBARDI

Rod Carew says he has seen many baseball players blessed with God-given ability who simply didn't want to work. "They are soon gone," Carew says. "I've seen others with no ability to speak of who stayed in the big leagues for fourteen or fifteen years… . You have to want to do the work.

Success in life is peace of mind, the feeling of having no regrets. It comes from knowing you did your best.

Memory, perception, coordination, strength: guitar is just plain hard.

Life is not measured by failures and victories. It's measured by attempts and journeys.

He was always competitive from the first day, but I think what happened from that point on is, I would say he began to enjoy the struggle,

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.

Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working the engines.

What is the secret of a fulfilling marriage? Hard work and persistence!

of one California Highway Patrol officer quoted in the book, "It's sheer numbers.… You've got to kiss a lot of frogs before you find a prince.

The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.

Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost.

What are the rules? I said & he said you run & you run & you run until you fall over. There's a couple others in there for variety, he added, but that's the main one.

If there is no wind, start rowing.

Change is the end result of an efortful journey. To dawn it, it must be proposed to, agreed, and willed by oneself.

Taming a dog is a child's play, as to an ignorant person.

At any given point in the life of a project, the only two things that matter are the amount of effort and resources required to complete the project, and the present value of the cash flows that the project will generate. As harsh as this may seem, the energy and effort already invested in the project are irrelevant. Goals and strategies change, and sometimes the most prudent course of action is to cut your losses and to move on to more value-creating projects.

A winner has more skills than a loser," Vor said, "no matter how you define the competition.