Quotes about Effort
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
- Victor Hugo
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.
We don't have to be superstars or win championships…. All we have to do is learn to rise to every occasion, give our best effort, and make those around us better as we do it.
- John Wooden
Honestly, I'm just trying to do the best I can with every opportunity I'm given, and when I'm given the opportunities make the most of them.
- Tim Tebow
We're all just a bunch of sinners, but we do the best we can.
- Dolly Parton
Please don't nag yourself with thoughts of failure. Do not set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. Simply do what you can do, in the best way you know, and the Lord will accept of your effort.
- Gordon Hinckley
When we do the best we can, we never know what miracles await.
- Helen Keller
When it's over and you look in the mirror, did you do the best you were capable of? If yes, you will probably be ok with the outcome
- John Wooden
Strive to accomplish the very best you are capable of. Nothing less than your best effort will suffice.
- John Wooden
Who likes not his business, his business likes not him.
- William Hazlitt
There is very little knowledge that can't be obtained through effort. With knowledge you can determine the state of any business or opportunity and find a course to gain an advantage.
- Mark Cuban
Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi Jr.