Quotes About Effort

Ever since I was in high school, I just tried to prove people wrong, and a lot of people doubt me and I just put a lot of work in and a lot of effort into it.

I think you have regrets when you didn't give it everything you had, and I always felt like I did. Whether it was good enough or not, that has nothing to do with the fact that I tried my best to give my team a chance to win, year in and year out.

I've tried lots of things. The reality is, I'm excited by everything on Day 1. And if by Day X things aren't working the way I hoped, I lose my passion. I have not seen the correlation between my passion and my success.

On my tombstone it will say: 'I tried everything - nothing was easy.'

Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.

If I were to write my epitaph... Epitaph? Hey, shut-up Albert. I'd want to be remembered as someone who loved his sport and tried his best.

I never had a burning desire to have children. But then I met Nick, and I thought, 'This is the only person I'd do this with.' So we tried, but I was a little long in the tooth for that sort of thing. But we didn't turn it into a soap opera. We tried for about a year or so, and it didn't happen and took that to mean it wasn't meant to be.

I've tried to rap, and I cannot do it.

Have you ever tried to split sawdust?

In the past, I put too much pressure on myself. I went out there and I tried so hard to get the ball in the hole, I tried so hard to hit the perfect shots.

I like to say that the one thing that all people who succeed in changing the world have in common is that they at least tried.

Of course my goal at Duke was to win the national championship, but we were shorthanded, and lost one of our big guys that was very important to the team. By the end of the season we only played about six guys. But we tried our hardest and did our best and overall had a successful season.

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.

I've got no respect for anyone who tries to take the easy way out.

Every time I make a new game, I put all of my effort completely into that game. It's like putting all your effort into a new child that's being born. Once the project is done, I can step back and look at it objectively, which is when I can see a lot of flaws. That's when I start to make a new game that tries to fix some of those flaws.

Everybody tries to score a great goal, and I am lucky I have netted a few.

The post office doesn't guarantee delivery, but it tries really hard. It's called best efforts communication. If you put two postcards in the post-box, they don't necessarily come out then in the same order that you put them in. So, that means that there's potentially disorder with your delivery, and that's also true in the Internet.

I'm the guy who tries with my qualities to help on the field.

Everyone tries to give 100 per cent for the team. If you can help with goals or assists then it's even more important.

There's a difference between fake hustle for show and being someone who tries hard to win.

A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.

It would seem that the ant works its way tentatively, and, observing where it fails, tries another place and succeeds.

What makes us love a character is a character that tries.