Quotes about Effort

The only failure is not to try.

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

The focus on just thinking about standardized test scores as being synonymous with achievement for teenagers is ridiculous, right? There are so many things that kids care about, where they excel, where they try hard, where they learn important life lessons, that are not picked up by test scores.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your power.

I would like people to recognize in looking at my story that the person who has the most to do with what happens to you is you. It's not the environment, it's not the other people who were there trying to help you or trying to stop you. It's what you decide to do and how much effort you put behind it.

Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow.

A boss wants to pay for results, an employee wants recognition for effort. If a boss recognizes effort, they will get even better results.

U Must Be What it is that youre Seeking - that is, U Need to Put Forth what U Want to Attract

Do what you don't want to do to get what you want to get.

The reason that so many times we don't win the battle is that we never show up for the war!

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.