Quotes about Effort

Sometimes we make the process more complicated than we need to. We will never make a journey of a thousand miles by fretting about how long it will take or how hard it will be. We make the journey by taking each day step by step and then repeating it again and again until we reach our destination.

There are too many British players who just aren't good enough. And that's not through lack of effort. But in terms of getting to the top 100, and getting into Wimbledon on their ranking, I feel as though there are too many players who just aren't good enough.

Winning isn't always championships.

After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.

Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown.

I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work - and realizing what opportunity is and what isn't.

I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.

I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.

But of course we can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

we can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.