Quotes About Effort

If What you re doing now was enough to get what you want, you'd already have it.

You've got to make a lot of sacrifices and spend a lot of time if you really want to achieve with this sport, or in any sport, or in anything truly worthwhile.

Norfolk is not on the way to anywhere, you don't stop off on the way somewhere else - it's an end in itself. You have to want to go there; it's an effort.

Nobody wants to hear that you will try your best. It is the wrong thing to say. It is like saying 'I probably won't hit you with a shovel.' Suddenly everyone is afraid you will do the opposite.

One can read all one wants, and spend eternities in front of a blackboard with a tutor, but one is not going to learn to swim until one gets in the water.

We can aspire to anything, but we don't get it just 'cause we want it. I would rather spend my life close to the birds than waste it wishing I had wings.

Summer School: Never stop learnin' if you want to stop earnin'. I'm reasonably sure there G's in learning and earning.

It's hard enough to do a good show, but it seems like not enough to want to do that.

The more effort we make to appreciate and perceive reality, the larger and more accurate our maps will be. But many do not want to make this effort.

It's a tough game, and you never want to take that aspect out of the game.

It is much easier not to struggle, to give up and take the path of the living dead. But if we want to live, we must struggle.

Football is a contact sport and there's a lot that goes into it. But I have committed myself for a long time to doing it, and because I love doing it so much I want to make that commitment.

I do make a conscious effort to not repeat old patterns, instead of being like, But they don't want me! I haven't always been that way.

The one thing for sure is, I don't ever want to waste a movie. I don't ever want to waste effort.

I don't know what drives me to succeed. I know I want to always do the best I can. I never was like that as a kid.

If you don't have talent or preparation for whatever you want to do, you will not be successful in anything.

Some people get in the way of change happening. Some people spend their whole careers thinking they can make a difference. Other people want to do as little as possible to get the day done.

I'm not the type of person who goes through all this effort for a movie, and then doesn't care if anybody sees it. I want them to see it, and I want them to see it on the big screen.

When you look back from your Olympic experience, you never want to question whether you could have done more. The one thing you can control is your off-ice preparation.

I do my best to please everybody, far more than they'd ever guess. I try to laugh it all off, because I don't want to let them see my trouble.

Poor people want to be poor; if they just worked harder they could have more.

It's like you wanting to marry Miss World and she doesn't want you, what can I do about it? I can try to help you, but if she does not want to marry you what can I do?

I can't fix the world. If you want to make a difference in life, you have to direct your energies in a focused way.

I mean, yeah, I want to lose some weight! I'm doing the best I can.