Quotes about Effort

In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best.

You might not be able to outthink, outmarket or outspend your competition, but you can outwork them.

To go into a competition and not strive to win is to be a dishonest competitor.

Many ... have tremendous God-given gifts, but they don't focus on the development of those gifts. Who are these individuals? You've never heard of them- and you never will .

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

The future is not a gift-it is an achievement.

One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one's greatest efforts.

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

One can't have something for nothing. Happiness has got to be paid for.

After an outburst, she would settle down and try to love him as reasonably as she could, making the best of his kindness, his rather detached and separate passion, his occasional and laborious essays at emotional intimacy, and finally his intelligence - that quick, comprehensive, ubiquitous intelligence that could understand everything, including emotions it could not feel and the instincts it took care not to be moved by.