Quotes about Effort
Perfectionism is the counterfeit of excellence. Excellence is Kingdom, while perfectionism is religion. What ever you do, do it with all you might, and as unto the Lord. That is excellence.
- Bill Johnson
We don't have to do it any better than we can - ever. Do our best for the moment, then let it go. If we have to redo it, we can do our best in another moment, later.
- Melody Beattie
I can do small things in a great way.
- James Freeman Clarke
The point is the doing of them rather than the accomplishments . There is no actor but the action; there is no experiencer but the experience.
- Bruce Lee
The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde
In the unbending of the arm to do the deed there is experience worth all the maxims in the world.
- Henry David Thoreau
As long as you try your best, you are never a failure. That is, unless you blame others.
- John Wooden
Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.
- Samuel Johnson
Suppose you should fail. Is that so terrible? Not to have tried is a worse failure.
- E Stanley Jones
Failure is not the crime. Low aim is.
- John Wooden
I'm never a failure, unless I quit trying, and neither are you.
- Joyce Meyer
In all failures, the beginning is certainly the half of the whole.
- George Eliot