Quotes About Effort

This is something I know for a fact: You have to work hardest for the things you love most.

when people already know they're deficient, they have nothing to lose by trying.

In the fixed mindset, everything is about the outcome. If you fail—or if you're not the best—it's all been wasted. The growth mindset allows people to value what they're doing regardless of the outcome . They're tackling problems, charting new courses, working on important issues. Maybe they haven't found the cure for cancer, but the search was deeply meaningful.

Genius is not enough; we need to get the job done.

Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?

I derive just as much happiness from the process as from the results.

Think about your hero. Do you think of this person as someone with extraordinary abilities who achieved with little effort? Now go find out the truth. Find out the tremendous effort that went into their accomplishment—and admire them more.

remarkable thing I've learned from my research is that in the growth mindset, you don't always need confidence. What I mean is that even when you think you're not good at something, you can still plunge into it wholeheartedly and stick to it. Actually, sometimes you plunge into something because you're not good at it.

effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.

A no-effort relationship is a doomed relationship, not a great relationship. It takes work to communicate accurately and it takes work to expose and resolve conflicting hopes and beliefs. It doesn't mean there is no "they lived happily ever after," but it's more like "they worked happily ever after.

If you had to choose, which would it be? Loads of success and validation or lots of challenge?

What on earth would make someone a nonlearner? Everyone is born with an intense drive to learn. Infants stretch their skills daily. Not just ordinary skills, but the most difficult tasks of a lifetime, like learning to walk and talk. They never decide it's too hard or not worth the effort. Babies don't worry about making mistakes or humiliating themselves. They walk, they fall, they get

People may start with different temperaments and different aptitudes, but it is clear that experience, training, and personal effort take them the rest of the way.

Success is about being your best self, not about being better than others; failure is an opportunity, not a condemnation; effort is the key to success.

the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning.

For them it's not about immediate perfection. It's about learning something over time: confronting a challenge and making progress.

When people with the fixed mindset opt for success over growth, what are they really trying to prove? That they're special. Even superior.

You have to work hardest for the things you love most.

The growth mindset allows people to value what they're doing regardless of the outcome.

Just because some people can do something with little or no training, it doesn't mean that others can't do it (and sometimes do it even better) with training. This is so important, because many, many people with the fixed mindset think that someone's early performance tells you all you need to know about their talent and their future.

person's true potential is unknown (and unknowable); that it's impossible to foresee what can be accomplished with years of passion, toil, and training. Did

Skills and achievement come through commitment and effort.

important achievements require a clear focus, all-out effort, and a bottomless trunk full of strategies.

The effort kids simply thought the difficulty meant "Apply more effort or try new strategies." They didn't see it as a failure, and they didn't think it reflected on their intellect.