Best 3649 quotes in «effort quotes» category

Schedule time for focused effort.

Seeing my mother get back to her studies was all the proof I needed that a chain of emotion can persuade when one forged of logic won't hold. But more important was her example that a surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence. It was something I would remember often in years ahead, whenever faced with fears that I wasn't smart enough to succeed.

Self-discipline is a prerequisite to progress.

Self-discipline is a learned habit that should be developed and continuously worked on through regular application, practice, and repetition.

She did her best but like Uncle E says, sometimes your best just ain't good enough.

Sheer effort enables those with nothing to surpass those with priviledge and position.

She expected a lot of me. When I was in fourth grade working on a book report, she made me start the whole thing over when she read it and said it was barely even legible. "What's wrong with it?" I asked her. "It's not good enough yet. You have to try harder," she said, her voice gentle. "You have to try hard at everything you do. That's all I ask." I rolled my eyes and revised it, and over time her approach wore off on me and I became like her too - wanting to do my best, expecting my best.

She had always wanted to do every thing, and had made more progress in both drawing and music than many might have done with so little labour as she ever would submit to... She was not much deceived as to her own skill either as an artist or a musician, but she was not unwilling to have others deceived, or sorry to know her reputation for accomplishment often higher than it deserved.

Shown her how life could reward the places where you least exerted effort, while denying what you desired and worked so ardently toward most.

Some think that they are incredible but are actually un-credible. Do you work, master your craft...

Significance is about making a difference, and its pursuit should ideally come before the pursuit of success – or at least at the same time.

Since when are treasures and jewels unearthed underneath your own home? Treasures always lay among the ruins.

So I picked the book up and did my usual 123 test. I don't bother reading the blurb on the back, or the first page - the writer's obviously going to be trying their hardest there, aren't they? It's how they're getting on by page 123 that's the real test. If they're crap at writing or bored with their story then you can bet they won't be making any effort at all by that point.

Some people would have achieved way more if they had never prayed.

Sometimes being happy takes effort. Invest time and energy in yourself and your happiness.

Sometimes I wonder if the cost of my dream is less about the efforts to achieve it and more about disappointment I’ll experience if it doesn’t happen. But then I remember that the nature of a dream is such that it is worth dreaming even if it never comes true.

Sometimes, Men too, deserve to be spoiled, Told they are handsome, Told their efforts are appreciated and should also be made secure, If he treats you like a Queen, Treat him like a King

Spend your efforts making a case as opposed to just making a complaint.

Speak as educated nature suggests to you, and you will do well, but let it be educated and not raw, rude, uncultivated nature. Demosthenes took unbounded pains with his voice, and Cicero, who was naturally weak, made a long journey into Greece to correct his manner of speaking. With far nobler themes, let us not be less ambitious to excel.

Staying true to your dream by using your mental, emotional and physical strength is discipline in action. You express it through focus, grit, self-control, persistence, perseverance, and willpower.

Stays focused and channel your little efforts through a common canal and you will marvel at the amount of pressure you create in that canal.

Steam in an open space would just simply scatter in different directions. Steam contained in an engine can move a whole train. Success comes from One-pointedness and Constancy of Aim and Effort.

Success can’t be achieved without personal development and constantly improving yourself.

Struggle is less effective than doing nothing.

Success and the pursuit of it can nourish your body, but only significance has the ability to nourish your mind, body and spirit.

Successful people’s dreams aren’t just about results. They’re about the changes their dreams will bring to their lives and the impact achieving their goal will have on those around them.

Success is not simply about intelligence and ambition. The time invested, the quality of preparation, and the effort applied are essential to excellence or mastery.

Success isn’t entirely a numbers game, but numbers play a part.

Success lasts a lifetime but stops at the end of your life. Significance lasts many lifetimes and continues long after you’re gone.

Success comes only through strong will, determination and effort.

Success may create excitement, but only significance leads to fulfilment.

Sympathetic joy is a practice. It takes time and effort to free ourselves of the scarcity story that most of us have learned along the way, the idea that happiness is a competition, and that someone else is grabbing all the joy.

Talent helps, but success is only achieved and sustained through consistent effort.

Talent is never enough. Effort, not talent, is the key to success.

Talent is given to us by our nature. Greatness, by our efforts.

The bike does this; it is an apotheosis of self-sufficiency, in which a well-loved machine will unhesitatingly and quietly mediate intentional being into momentum. As you ride a bike and start to ride it well, there are moments when it becomes an affirmation of life devoid of separation and distinction; you ride through the earth unthinkingly rather than across it. There is no need to account for who you are in others’ terms, in language, even. Your characteristics give way to your being. The effort put into the bike can take you out of your socialized, represented self into what Heidegger called ‘disclosing self’, where you simply are ever-shifting endeavour.

The ability to make yourself do what needs to be done at the appropriate time and in the appropriate manner – irrespective of your feelings – marks the true test of self-discipline.

The abundant life should include all that life has freely given you – love, good health, success, prosperity, happiness, joy, spirituality, fulfilment, wisdom, purpose, growth and excitement.

The brush must draw by itself. This cannot happen if one does not practice constantly. But neither can it happen if one makes an effort.

The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality. His procedure was simple: on the final day of class he would bring in his bathroom scales and weigh the work of the “quantity” group: 50 pounds of pots rated an “A”, 40 pounds a “B”, and so on. Those being graded on “quality”, however, needed to produce only one pot — albeit a perfect one — to get an “A”. Well, came grading time and a curious fact emerged: the works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity. It seems that while the “quantity” group was busily churning out piles of work-and learning from their mistakes — the “quality” group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay.

...the child trying not to appear as a child, of the strenuousness with which she tried to present the face of a convincing adult.

The amount of effort involved in resolving anything will always equal the benefits gained.

The cost of success is the energy necessary to achieve what you want, be this mental or physical effort.

The cost of claiming value comes with the time you invest in your dream. Eventually the price you paid for your investment pays off. Be patient.

The effort you direct at finding and developing the person you are is the key to life

The days without difficulty are the days you do not improve.

The destiny of a man is determined by his daily action, God won't allow you go anywhere, if you don't make an attempt to move.

The distance between your Dreams and Reality is inversely proportional to your Efforts.

The first step is always the hardest

The full length of a frog doesn't have to be seen when it's dead. It has to be seen when it jumps. Aim for greater heights always.