Quotes About Effort

When I look at the kids training today ... I can tell which ones are going to do well. It's not necessarily the ones who have the most natural talent or who fall the least. Sometimes it's the kids who fall the most, and keep pulling themselves up and trying again.

You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.

I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I shall still by that time be trying.

Like ships, men flounder time and time again.

They laboriously do nothing.

A day's impact is better than a month of dead pull.

Time is that which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman.

I work every day-or at least I force myself into my office or room. I may get nothing done, but you don't earn bonuses without putting in time. Nothing may come for three months, but you don't get the fourth without it.

Showing up is 80 percent of life.

Do each daily task the best we can; act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us.

So get a few laughs and do the best you can.

That man is blest who does his best and leaves the rest.

As my mother used to say: "Mimic a duck act calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like crazy underneath."

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

You can't make souffle rise twice.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

A new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and tips over.

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

I only have to stop the puck, not beat it to death.

We fought hard. We gave it our best. We did what was right and we made a difference.

When something has been perfect, there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.