Quotes About Effort

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is fourteen days.

Hvis man prøver av alle krefter, til det ytterste, må det ikke være hensikten som teller mest, teller mer enn hvordan det til slutt gikk?

The thing about God, she thought, is that He usually does help, but not until you've made an effort on your own.

How much wrong have we done unintentionally, meaning the best

Physical appearance is more straightforward—what you wear sends a pretty clear, established message about how you feel. For example, wearing old sweatpants and ratty T-shirts and having disheveled hair every day tells the world you've given up, while overdressing for every occasion and never missing your weekly haircut lets people know you are trying too hard.

Life sucks, but work is really cool!

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect so why bother.

I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something 100%, because I had never reached true failure.

Milligan, having found nothing else to throw, had thrown himself.

I had only four hairs worth shaving, but I managed to inflict five cuts attempting to remove them.

What we heard all the time is that you were not working. That's what was said, that that degree of yours was just a piece of paper sitting, silently rotting.

You're like a monkey," Swordtail panted, catching up to her when she stopped to wait for them. "I mean — in a good way — like a — very fast — jumps — good jumps — not foodishly — I mean, not in a dinner way — just, so fast." He wheezed to a stop.

No one had made fun of his odd talons in years, not since his first month in the wingery. He'd always worked hard to prove

All I can ask is that you try your best — and I know I don't even have to ask, because you're the kind of dragon who always does.

Another few months of training, maybe. I'm feeling really

Just give it a try, please, Pyrite,

Dawn, slowly filling Church Street with grey light, disclosed another day of war. Because it did this, this dawn bore no more resemblance to a peace-time dawn than the aspect of nature on a Sunday bears a resemblance to the aspect of nature on a weekday. Thus it seemed that dawn itself had been grimly harnessed to the war effort.

Every endeavor of importance in life, whether it is creative, athletic, interpersonal, or academic, brings with it a measure of discomfort

To achieve results. This is the only true measure of a team P.42

It has to do with doing work that drains me of my energy, and which, in turn, prevents me from doing the work that gives me energy.

I have found that most leaders spend the majority of their time and energy making their organizations smarter, with relatively little effort directed toward making them healthier.

Building an effective, cohesive team is extremely hard. But it's also simple.