Quotes About Effort

Life presents itself first and foremost as a task. We take no pleasure in it except when we are striving after something.

A marriage is hard work. Worth every bit of it though.

Fuck "try." Trying is an open invitation to failure, just another way of saying, "If I fail, it's not my fault, I tried.

In anything you do, it takes no talent to work hard. You just have to want to do it.

Do. The. Work. Every day, you have to do something you don't want to do. Every day. Challenge yourself to be uncomfortable, push past the apathy and laziness and fear. Otherwise, the next day you're going to have two things you don't want to do, then three and four and five, and pretty soon, you can't even get back to the first thing. And then all you can do is beat yourself up for the mess you've created,

no trainer or coach or expert can make you good or great or unstoppable if you're not going to do the work,

Success isn't the same as talent. The world is full of incredibly talented people who never succeed at anything. They show up, do what they do, and if it doesn't work out, they blame everyone else because they believe talent should be enough. It's not. If you want to be truly successful, you can't be content with "pretty good." You need to find an extra gear.

Everything you do in the gym becomes easier when you stop expecting it to be easy.

Just show up, work hard, and listen. That's your part of the deal. Do the work.

We always get back to work.

Winning is a test with no correct answers .

And being unstoppable only comes with hard work.

Everyone has the will to win, but it's only those with the will to prepare that do win.

Napoleon Hill observed many successful men during his research for Think and Grow Rich. All of them had a strong self-image that was protected by a track record of keeping their commitments, even when doing so required herculean efforts.

Here's the deal: 90 percent of the time, whatever you do will turn out to be a mistake, but that's still better than doing nothing, which is always a mistake.

I will continue to work as hard as I can to make this organization proud. Every time I step on the field I will give everything I have and I will leave everything I have on the field every single Sunday.

I don't try to focus on anything that doesn't affect me personally and how I go out there every single day. I'm just going to continue to work hard and focus on what I can control.

The only way you're going to get something to last in this world is to work at it

I hate it when Bogdan gets sincere. It means I have to work twice as hard to dislike him.

Their attempts to make sense of the world had carried heat but little light.

It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood. Richard Nixon had quoted the same speech the day before

We rise to a challenge and set a course. We take a decision. You put your mind to something. Just deciding to do it gets you halfway there. Daring to try.

Orozco's despair was not just in finding himself poor, but in discovering that effort, honest intentions, and gentlemanly status had nothing to do with sucess in a commercial economy.

We do not rise to the level of our expectations. We fall to the level of our training." —Archilochus