Quotes About Effort

Building castles in the air is only wise if you build a ladder to reach them.

The high cost of greatness is better than the low cost of mediocrity.

Breaking down a closed door is quicker than waiting for someone to answer it.

Never tell a child that something it's too hard

My perception of your beauty was far more erotic than your real beauty! Am I to be blamed for taking too much effort on my part in beautifying you or did you fail in seducing me?

I'm impressed when men go the distance to show they give a damn. That says nothing about the woman and everything about the man.

Hope floats but effort propels.

Success=Assinchair

It's not a hard job, radio or standup, there are hard parts of it, sure. There are guys who do ten hours of construction a day don't want to hear me talk about my job being difficult. Compared to what a lot of people do, this is genuinely easy.

I believe stardom is a by-product of good work.

We only see the glamour side of stars but not how they've achieved it.

The stars that have most glory have no rest.

There are plenty of people in the world who have tried to be rock stars and have not gotten there.

You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.

As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.

It was a great feeling to be named an All-Star starter, to know that my hard work is paying off and fans around the world are recognizing that.

It's one of those things: you can't really control how much you play or when you play, but when your number's called, I think if you make the most of your opportunities in this league, that's what makes good players. That's what I've tried to do in my short time being a starter, and good things have come from it.

I practice as if I'm one of the starters.

People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one.

When anybody is just starting the process of cooking, I always say it takes practice, and nobody got to be a great cook on their first try.

I think that most things, if you want to use them properly, take quite a lot of time and I don't necessarily have the patience to sit down and read the instructions and follow the first bits to actually get the starting point.

I have been running since I was 7. I was trying to restructure the way my body was made instead of trying to master the way I ran. I would get so frustrated with my starts in practices that I would just cry. When I ran, I wouldn't even try to get out of the blocks, I would just run.

One important lesson is this: It is okay to try and fail at something, but it isn't okay to not try. Parents need to encourage their kids, and it all starts in the home.