Quotes About Effort

Ehrgeiz ist die letzte Zuflucht des Versagers

Complex people waste half their strength in trying to conceal what they do. Is it any wonder they should always come to grief?

My dear fellow, it isn't easy to be anything nowadays. There's such a lot of beastly competition about.

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

To wish for what you want is not enough; With ardent longing you must strive for it.

Crédule enfant, à quoi bon ces vains efforts pour saisir une fugitive apparence? L'objet de ton désir n'existe pas! ... Cette ombre que tu vois, c'est le reflet de ton image.

Man's inability to get out of bed in the morning is a curious thing. One may reason with oneself clearly and forcibly without the slightest effect. One knows that delay means inconvenience. Perhaps it may spoil one's whole day. And one also knows that a single resolute heave will do the trick. But logic is of no use. One simply lies there.

All a publisher has to do is write cheques at intervals, while a lot of deserving and industrious chappies rally round and do the real work.

Comfort is for the lazy and the ugly. Aphrodite

He was one of those earnest, persevering dancers--the kind that have taken twelve correspondence lessons.

It may work, Jeeves. It is, at least, worth trying. I shall now leave you, to prepare myself for the ordeal before me with silent meditation.' 'Your tea will be here in a moment, sir.' 'No, Jeeves. This is no time for tea. I must concentrate.

Hear him now as he toils. He has a long garden-implement in his hand, and he is sending up the death-rate in slug circles with a devastating rapidity.             Ta-ra-ra boom-de-ay              Ta-ra-ra BOOM— And the boom is a death-knell. As it rings softly out on the pleasant spring air, another stout slug has made the Great Change.

He was always in a sort of fever because he was dropping behind schedule with his daily acts of kindness. However hard he tried, he'd fall behind; and then you would find him prowling about the house, setting such a clip to try and catch up with himself that Easeby was rapidly becoming a perfect hell for man and beast.

I eluded them, therefore, with no great expenditure of physical effort, but I would be deceiving my public if I said that I was enjoying the episode. It offends one's pride when one has to leap like a lamb in Springtime at the bidding of an elderly little Gawd-help-us with whom it is impossible to reason.

But the work had told upon the Editor. Work of that sort carries its penalties with it. Success means absorption, and absorption spells softening of the brain.

One cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs, sir.

Work, the what's-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d'you-call-it

I think it was very informative, but a lot still needs to be done.

De la vida no quiero mucho. Quiero apenas saber que intenté todo lo que quise, tuve todo lo que pude, amé lo que valía la pena y perdí apenas lo que nunca fue mío.

Let's try and avoid death in small doses, reminding oneself that being alive requires an effort far greater than the simple fact of breathing. Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness.

What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.

Inspiration existis, but it has to find us working.

Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.

When there is little you can do, you do what you can.