Quotes About Effort

TYLER FORD: A tiger team? What's that?          HANK: Oh, sorry. It's a group of people that are put together to solve a problem that no particular unit in the company is responsible for. So the boss picks a

They are fools that think that wealth or women or strong drink or even drugs can buy the most in effort out of the soul of a man. These things offer pale pleasures compared to that which is greatest of them all, that task which demands from him more than his utmost strength, that absorbs him, bone and sinew and brain and hope and fear and dreams -- and still calls for more.

Baking with chocolate is similar to cooking with wine. You get out what you put in.

[W]hat was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element which is life itself, — life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose?

The best cure for boredom is hard work.

CIVILIZATION. A concerted effort to remedy the blunders and check the practical joking of God.

It is great to get praise from the lips of taciturnity; and I know that praise rightly given, implying real success and assuring us that we have done what we strove to do, is what you say — just vital oxygen.

One man's crappy software is another man's full time job.

Dieting is not a piece of cake.

I'm on a 90-day wonder diet. Thus far, I've lost 45 days.

Laziness is not a handicap — park somewhere else!

A man has often more trouble to digest food than to get it.

The difference between try and triumph is a little umph.

Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.

Put in 5% more effort than "there's only so much I can do" and you'll be way ahead of the game.

If you've climbed the jutting trees to your lofty goal, you've far outdone the unscathed ladder climbers.

Plough deep, while Sluggards sleep...

The view is better when it is earned.

Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets.

We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.

You can make excuses or you can get the job done, but you can't do both.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

It was our fault, and our very great fault — and now we must turn it to use; We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse! So the more we work and the less we talk the better results we shall get...

Kimberly: You know what they say about uphill battles. Michael: You can't talk while you're waging them?