Effort Quotes

There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

Miguel de Cervantes

As a result of trying to solve the big problems we face in life, many of us end up sacrificing individual relationships by doing things that we may consider as being small or insignificant at the time. This reminds us of the George and Gracie routine where George asks Gracie, How do you cook a pot roast? She replied, I put both a big pot roast and a small pot roast in the oven. When the small one is burnt, the big one is done just right!

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The best angle from which to approach a problem is the Try-angle.

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There is merit in the attempt, and a whole lot accomplished along the way.

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The greatest efforts in sports came when the mind is as still as a glass lake.

Timothy Gallwey

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well. The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all.

Barbara Ehrenreich

God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.

P. D. James

If your efforts are sometimes greeted with indifference, don't lose heart. The sun puts on a wonderful show at daybreak, yet most of the people in the audience go on sleeping.

Ada Teixeira

Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

Mahatma Gandhi

One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one's greatest efforts.

Albert Einstein

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Theodore Roosevelt

Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right and a perfect contentment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I visualize the game. I think about who I am guarding, the things he likes to do.

Scottie Pippen

World records are only borrowed.

Sebastian Coe

Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory.

Leo Tolstoy

The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. Ecclesiastes 9:11

Bible

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

Henry Miller

Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself.

Frank Mcgee

Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

Bruce Jenner