“The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.”
“God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.”
“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.”
“If someone had told me I would be pope one day, I would have studied harder.”
“What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.”
“The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.”
“I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.”
“Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.”
“I want to be remembered as the guy who gave his all whenever he was on the field.”
“The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.”
“Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more.”
“Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.”
“In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside.”
“If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.”
“There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.”
“Life does not require us to make good; it asks only that we give our best at each level of experience.”
“When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.”
“When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.”
“People travel in the way of least resistance, by choosing one's environment, one will travel in a particular way.”
“You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.”
“Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.”
“champions know there are no shortcuts to the top. They climb the mountain one step at a time. they have no use for helicopters!”
“You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what is left.”
“Racing takes everything you've got -- intellectually, emotionally, physically -- and then you have to find about ten percent more and use that too.”
“The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work.”
“Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.”
“We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone, until those smiling possibilities are dead.”
“Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there -- or failing to get there.”
“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.”
“''Doing your own thing'' is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource.”