Quotes About Effort

The people that you see winning in life are just knocking on more doors. They're just sending more messages. They're just sending more resumes. They're just calling more people. That is what makes you win.

One doesn't win by chance. One doesn't lead a business to make a €1 billion or €500 million if he is a moron.

Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.

Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature.

A relationship can only work if you work at it. Marriage is the most difficult thing you will do - you've got to really love each other to enjoy the same jokes, the same odours, the same behaviours every day.

I work hard and try to combine a demanding career with motherhood.

I think as mothers we are all just trying our best.

I worry about getting work, and then when I get it, I worry about doing it well. I don't want to just go through the motions and give people stuff. This stuff is really important to me.

When you're tired, you've got to focus. Everybody can go through the motions. But you've got to focus, too, when you're tired.

You've made the time to go to the gym, so don't just go through the motions.

For me, fielding and running between the wickets are two things that are very important. For that, you need to motivate the guys about how much of an effect it will have on the game.

It is easier to motivate people to do something difficult than something easy.

Now I have to motivate myself much more than I had previously.

I always found it hard to motivate myself.

It doesn't matter about the other team, when we have the ball and push hard, we can score goals. It is up to us to start the games with that desire, that motivation, and then we can get good results.

Motivation should come from within each player; if not, it's difficult to get results.

I have had bad times, but I never lost my motivation to work and make an effort so that in the moments I got to play I could be at my best.

The more we do, the more we can do.

Many are called but few get up.

I honestly think, rebounding, it takes a couple of things to be a good rebounder... It takes motor. It takes effort. It takes a lot of things. It takes game reps.

La competencia ha sido y será siempre problemática para aquellos que tienen que competir. FRÉDÉRIC BASTIAT

If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and only uses half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men will know. - Thomas Wolfe

As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity—"teleological" activity. He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of his being such an agent he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort.

Other golfers may outplay me from time to time, but they'll never outwork me.