Quotes About Effort

I'm going to do my best to do both and die of an ulcer at age 30.

No special formula or anything like that; I just feel like I tried to do everything in my power to get to my ultimate goal.

I really feel like my goal, and I don't always achieve it, is to do the best work I can do, and stay out of the results. Because ultimately, the result is not what the work is about. There are other people whose jobs are to focus on those results and maximize them, and that's great. Let them do their job.

I can promote until I am blue in the face, but ultimately nobody knows what makes a hit.

I sort of locked into the idea that if I could be the perfect son to both of my parents, well maybe that would be enough to keep them together. And ultimately, obviously, it wasn't. Regardless of what I tried to do. That was a lesson about limitations.

Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books. It may be the case that we all must write many books in order to achieve a few lasting ones - just as a young writer or poet might have to write hundreds of poems before writing his first significant one.

I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.

When I initially committed to joining 'Dancing with the Stars,' I didn't realize just how physically demanding it would be for me. Unable to put forth my best effort, I felt it appropriate to step aside and give someone else the opportunity.

The Cure is clearly above average but seemingly unable to rally itself to move to a higher plateau.

It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.

I've played so many matches in my career so far where I played unbelievable, came up just short.

It was a long, hard, tough day. We managed to just sneak through, it was an unbelievable Test match.

What the public sees is my successes... Yes, I've won competitions and I've done unbelievable baseball, but a lot of those times, I failed more often than not.

You have to bring this ball over this line and into this rectangle. It is not like synchronised swimming, where you are judged by your unbelievably beautiful performance.

If today any athlete were to put in as much effort as Milkha Singh did, he can conquer the universe and his record will remain unbroken for at least 100 years.

The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

This war in Iraq is part of a larger effort to remove this terrorist threat from the planet.

In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.

The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use.

The undeserver may sleep when the man of action is called on.

No one can guarantee success in war but only deserve it.

Peace is such hard work. Harder than war. It takes way more effort to forgive than to kill.

Brigan, could you attempt, at least, to make yourself presentable? I know this is a war, but the rest of us are trying to pretend it's a party.