Quotes about Effort
We don't have to do it any better than we can - ever. Do our best for the moment, then let it go. If we have to redo it, we can do our best in another moment, later.
— Melody Beattie
I can do small things in a great way.
— James Freeman Clarke
The point is the doing of them rather than the accomplishments . There is no actor but the action; there is no experiencer but the experience.
— Bruce Lee
The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
— Oscar Wilde
In the unbending of the arm to do the deed there is experience worth all the maxims in the world.
— Henry David Thoreau
As long as you try your best, you are never a failure. That is, unless you blame others.
— John Wooden
Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.
— Samuel Johnson
Suppose you should fail. Is that so terrible? Not to have tried is a worse failure.
— E Stanley Jones
Failure is not the crime. Low aim is.
— John Wooden
I'm never a failure, unless I quit trying, and neither are you.
— Joyce Meyer
In all failures, the beginning is certainly the half of the whole.
— George Eliot
All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
— Samuel Beckett