Quotes About Effort

It's so easy to be undisciplined. And to be disciplined is so against my character, my general nature anyway, that I have to strain a little bit to keep on the right track.

It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.

Ability for stupendous toil is lodged in every human spirit, a grand gift from the God of nature; but only the persevering worker knows what this latent power is able to achieve.

A violent wind does not outlast the morning; a squall of rain does not outlast the day. Such is the course of Nature. And if Nature herself cannot sustain her efforts long, how much less can man!

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it, namely, that, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

HE wants you to feel HIM in any possible way you can, but you lazy bird, come on, make a step and you will feel all you got to feel.

To get over a mountain, you have to climb it.

As hard as we strive, man remains a perfect imperfect being.

It is a futile and ridiculous struggle—but then... it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.

I wish I knew all the answers, how to be perfect, attractive and witty. But I'm just a human being with all the regular faults and it seems no matter how hard I try, I can't change that.

Parents are not worried about young-ones' failure, but only concerned about their lack of efforts. Youth who understand and address parents' dilemma are the forerunners in life.

Good things come to those who hustle

We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

Long patience and application saturated with your heart's blood-you will either write or you will not-and the only way to find out whether you will or not is to try.

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

Any child can be taught to be beautifully behaved with no effort greater than quiet patience and perseverance, whereas to break bad habits once they are acquired is a Herculean task.

By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.

Progress can be slow and gradual. Continue putting in effort with patience, enthusiasm and faith.

Patience and perserverance will accomplish more in this world than a brilliant dash. Remember that when something goes wrong.

Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation.

Talent is nothing but long patience.

He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding.

It doesn't take more skill to paint hundreds of strokes rather than one right stroke but it takes more patience.