Quotes About Effort

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

Rome was not built in a day.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.

A hero is a man who does what he can.

It is only fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.

May God ... let me strive for attainable things.

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

Conquer but never triumph.

I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami.

When you find yourself overpowered, as it were, by melancholy, the best way is to go out and do something.

If there is no wind, row.

Under normal periods, any man's success hinges about 5 percent on what others do for him and 95 percent on what he does.

God helps those who help themselves.

The gods help those who help themselves.

Keep doing what you're doing and you'll keep getting what you're getting.

Football is blocking and tackling. Everything else is mythology.

The way you get better at playing football is to play football.

The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.

Catching a fly ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it is a business.

To be ambitious for wealth, and yet always expecting to be poor; to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for, is like trying to reach east by traveling west. There is no philosophy which will help man to succeed when he is always doubting his ability to do so, and thus attracting failure. No matter how hard you work for success, if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but the principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.

The real difference between men is energy.

To bring one's self to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish things that require plain hard work continuously is the one big battle that everyone has. When this battle is won for all time, then everything is easy.