Quotes about Effort

Who walks his path beside me Feels my hand upon him always. No effort he makes is wasted, Nor unseen, unguided by me.

But this is different for me. These are my demons. This is me. This is the shit I do, no matter how hard I try to stop myself.

Let the unconscious do its work. Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.

A professional schools herself to stand apart from her performance, even as she gives herself to it heart and soul. The Bhagavad-Gita tells us we have a right only to our labor, not to the fruits of our labor. All the warrior can give is his life; all the athlete can do is leave everything on the field.

If we can't finish, all our work is for nothing.

We have the right to our labor but not to the fruit of our labor.

Work—day-in, day-out exertion and concentration—produces progress and order. That's a law of the universe.

Try as we may, we can't change ourselves in any significant way.

But you don't have to change the world to earn the applause of heaven.

Every player has their challenge to help the team. They all have a challenge individually and collectively to improve.

My secret is to train as intensively as I can, if possible, with the same intensity you experience in a real match.

A muscle becomes weak if it is not used. To become strong, a muscle must push against something.