Quotes about Effort

There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but our power to do so is increased.

If you don't pay the price for success, you'll pay the price for failure.

Meaningful work, creative work, thoughtful work, important work—this type of effort takes stretches of uninterrupted time to get into the zone. But in the modern office such long stretches just can't be found. Instead, it's just one interruption after another.

Soon you'll see that it's the work—not the clock—that matters.

I don't even know what 'working hard' means. If you get to sit behind a desk all day in an air-conditioned room, there's no such thing as hard work.

Do Your Best, Let God Do The Rest

A problem is a chance for you to do your best

She would not have put herself out so much to say so little.

Will-power, he saw, was not a thing one could suddenly decree oneself to possess. It must be built up imperceptibly and laboriously out of a succession of small efforts to meet definite objects, out of the facing of daily difficulties instead of cleverly eluding them, or shifting their burden on others.

he understood that her courage and initiative were all for others, and that she had none for herself. It was evident that the effort of speaking had been much greater than her studied composure betrayed, and that at his first word of reassurance she had dropped back into the usual, as a too-adventurous child takes refuge in its mother's arms.

A man can only do what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.