Quotes About Effort

There's nothing in this world that comes easy. There are a lot of people who aren't going to bother to win. We learn in football to get up and go once more.

Without perseverance talent is a barren bed.

I have said what I meant and meant what I said. I have not done as well as I should like to have done, but I have done my best, frankly and forth-rightly; no man can do more, and you are entitled to no less.

God will help you if you try, and you can if you think you can.

Work as if everything depended upon work and pray as if everything depended upon prayer.

Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

What is difficulty? Only a word indicating the degree of strength requisite for accomplishing particular objects; a mere notice of the necessity for exertion ... a mere stimulus to men.

Nothing is impossible for the person who doesn't have to do it.

There is no such thing as something for nothing.

Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.

So often we search out the impossible, and then throw ourselves into trying to do it.

Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner that works and brings it out.

Talent on its own sat gracefully only on the very young. After a certain age it was what you did with it that counted.

Luck ... taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it, luck goes away.

Motivation triggers luck.

What the reason of the ant laboriously drags into a heap, the wind of accident will collect in one breath.

The error of the past is the success of the future. A mistake is evidence that someone tried to do something.

Skills vary with the man. We must... strive by that which is born in us.

I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Me, I'm just a hack. I'm just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.

In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.

All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.

The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.