Personal Effort Quotes

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

I can control how much work I put in for me to be consistent.

To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some effort, a genuine descent to the heart of oneself . . . Only desire and love give us the strength to make this effort. The only books that we truly absorb are those we read with real appetite, after having worked hard to get them, so great had been our need of them.

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

Success is achieved and maintained by those who keep trying with positive mental attitude. What you try for is up to you.

I've been writing on my own. It's like Roger Miller used to say, every now and then, like a dog having puppies, you have to crawl under the house and do it yourself.

I don't believe in talent. Talent doesn't exist.

I write all my sermons.

Help yourself and God will help you

You can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap.

But I just try to do my best. I don't know if my game can influence the game of the team and how we play, but I just try to help with my football, for my team-mates and the club.

Everything in life that's meaningful takes effort - takes vitality. You have to work at it. And God helps them who help themselves...help you.

Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.

I think love is something that you have to work on, and it develops over experience and time. Love is a practice.

Without your own effort it is impossible for blessings to come.

Help thyself, then thou wilt also have the help of the Almighty.

Help thyself and Heaven will help thee.

Of course, my family helped me, my brothers helped me, but after I set up my own office I had to really help myself. Some people seem to think I had an oil well in my garden! It's a nice idea but not true.

I'm a staunch believer in enterprise, and I'm glad I live in a country where - I don't think some people understand this, but if I work hard, I get rewarded for it.

You have to do the work. You have to make the opportunity. It doesn’t find you, you find it.

The question is not whether the formula for success will work, but rather whether the person will work the formula.

I always believed if you worked honestly and pulled for the team, you could keep moving up. So, that's what I did.

I'm no natural beauty. If I'm gonna have any looks at all, I'm gonna have to create them.

I think it's incumbent upon me to try to be smart and make good choices and work with good people and work my ass off when I'm working with good people and I have to let everyone have their opinion afterwards. But this is what happens. You make a movie or you're on a show and then you have this experience and everyone tells you what you did. They tell you what you did. That's allowed. That's the experience of being human and subjectivity. That's it. We can only do what we'll do, and I can only do the best I can do.