Quotes About Effort

I know that I am not perfect or ever will be. I try to my best each day, but I confess I sometimes miss the mark and fail. Doing the best yet failing doesn't make you a bad person, it means you are human. Take the encouragement from God and others and keep moving forward.

Nothing is perfect for long. Therefore you have to be perfect for a little while.

If you have it in you, try to do something that defines you. Because everything happens within you and that is worth trying.

I've got only one chance to give... my best shot.

The object is not to win or lose, for that is already decided, and already irrelevant80—for us it is rather to be on the playing field, with utmost exercise of élan and investment of spirit to the end.

It's something fails us. First we feel. Then we fall. And let her rain now if she likes. Gently or strongly as she likes. Anyway let her rain for my time is come. I done me best when I was let. Thinking always if I go all goes. A hundred cares, a tithe of troubles and is there one who understands me? One in a thousand of years of the nights?

Haun! Work your progress! Hold to! Now! Win out, ye divil ye!

Longest way round is the shortest way home.

Everyone could work hard under the right conditions, and it was possible to enjoy hard work, even the most numbing, backbreaking toil. But you had to have a sense of participating in some greater good than just the maintaining of your own small existence; some human quorum or congregation of a size sufficient to align you with the world instead of against it. The imagination had to be fired, and kept alight. The heart had to feel the presence of joy and warmth. He

what do you say to people who are doing their best when their best is not enough?

resolution by itself is not enough; we are what we do, not what we think and feel.

Leadership has an impact on people's commitment, their desire to stay or leave, their willingness to put forth more discretionary effort, and their inclination to take personal initiative and responsibility. Bad leaders have a dampening effect on these things, and exemplary leaders have just the opposite effect. What sort of difference do you want to achieve through your leadership? The choice is yours.

People need to know if they're making progress toward the goal or simply marking time. Their motivation to perform a task increases only when they have a challenging goal and receive feedback on their progress.8

Only those who believe they can get better make an effort to do so.

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries

It's okay, Ig. said Fang. Just give it your best shot. Sometimes the Fangster is incredibly supportive, just not with me.

We Irish don't always succeed, but we're pretty decent at grinding it out.

If there's a God, he knows I'm doing the best I can.

NEW-AGENT TRAINING at the FBI Academy in Quantico, sometimes called "Club Fed," was turning out to be a challenging, arduous, and tense program. For the most part, I liked it, and I was making an effort to keep any skepticism down. But I had entered the Bureau with a reputation for catching pattern killers, and I

Mountains exist for you to climb," the monk said slowly in English, Ã¢â'¬Å"not for you to carry.

Remember, Michael Sean, she'd always say, it's never the job you do but how hard you do it.

Hey, I might've blown two classes. But you know what they say: The third time's the charm!

I want to try. Isn't that what matters—that I want to try?

going to nail this Hazmat