Quotes about Effort

We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us.

The fruits of your labor will bare the fruits of your success.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.—Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho (1983)

Do not wait: the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.

There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but our power to do so is increased.

If you don't pay the price for success, you'll pay the price for failure.

Meaningful work, creative work, thoughtful work, important work—this type of effort takes stretches of uninterrupted time to get into the zone. But in the modern office such long stretches just can't be found. Instead, it's just one interruption after another.

Soon you'll see that it's the work—not the clock—that matters.

I don't even know what 'working hard' means. If you get to sit behind a desk all day in an air-conditioned room, there's no such thing as hard work.

Do Your Best, Let God Do The Rest

A problem is a chance for you to do your best