Quotes about Effort

It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.

I have tried so hard to do right.

Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.

Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.

How bad you want something determines what you will do to get it.

If What you re doing now was enough to get what you want, you'd already have it.

You've got to make a lot of sacrifices and spend a lot of time if you really want to achieve with this sport, or in any sport, or in anything truly worthwhile.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

Many people, in their attempt to build a successful life, forget there are tools to help them.

To get to the top, you must put in a lot of hard work, but you also need to be blessed with talent.

The top salesperson in the organization probably missed more sales than 90% of the sales people on the team, but they also made more calls than the others made.

The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.