Quotes About Effort

I swam the race like I trained to swim it. It is not mathematical. I just let my body do it. It is a lot easier if you let your body do what it is trained for.

Practice is just as valuable as a sale. The sale will make you a living; the skill will make you a fortune.

The hardest things in life are done the least but provide the most.

They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. As a result, a genius is often a talented person who has simply done all of his homework.

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they're working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.

You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.

Success at anything will always come down to this: focus & effort. And we control both.

Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.

It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.

What is it that makes us suppose that we can more easily do twice tomorrow what we didn't do once today!

Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum, but also the pressure you need to feel either friction, or fulfillment.

The person that said winning isn't everything, never won anything.

Remember: Rewards come in action, not in discussion.

Don't get discouraged: it is often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

The one thing that matters is the effort.

Football's not just about scoring goals - it's about winning.

I can live with the pain of losing but I can't live with the thought of not having tried my best.

You don't run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.

We realize that what we are accomplishing is a drop in the ocean. But if this drop were not in the ocean, it would be missed.

Few of us know what we are capable of doing... we have never pushed ourselves hard enough to find out. Alfred

Most champions are built by punch the clock workouts rather than extraordinary efforts.

A champion pays an extra price to be better than anyone else.