Quotes about Effort

The biggest gap between failure and success is the distance between I should and I did.

Life involves struggle.

Climbing to the higher levels of leadership isn't easy. It takes effort. It also requires sacrifices. You won't be able to win one level using the skills you used to win the last one. You'll have to give up some privileges and resources to move up. You'll have to give up doing some of the things you love that don't give a great enough return on your time. And some people you'd love to take with you to the top will refuse to go.

If everyone doesn't pay the price to win, then everyone will pay the price by losing.

The world tries to talk us out of working hard.

Moving uphill requires intentionality, energy, determination, hard work, and consistency.

The Unrealistic Expectation Trap For some reason, many people think everything in life should be easy, and when they find out that achievement takes effort, they give up. But success takes hard work.

I've never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline," said Vince Lombardi. "I firmly believe that any man's finest hour—this greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear—is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle—victorious.

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.

Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat.

Work without vision is drudgery. Vision without work is dreaming. Work coupled with vision is destiny.