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Quotes About Effort

The luckiest people are the hardest working people." - L. R. W. Lee
~ L.R.W. Lee
Dream, believe, strive, achieve.
~ Debasish Mridha
The door of opportunity is always open, but nobody bothers to push the door open. They just get tired out by knocking and then they leave.
~ Debasish Mridha
All wealth is the product of thoughts, labor, and love.
~ Debasish Mridha
When I try to write in English, I feel like a bird without wings still trying to fly.
~ Debasish Mridha
In this hospitable world it is much harder to be unsuccessful than successful.
~ Debasish Mridha
Thinking harder is more important than working harder.
~ Debasish Mridha
Keep working. Keep trying. Keep believing. You still might not make it, but at least you gave it your best shot. If you don't have calluses on your soul, this isn't for you. Take up knitting instead.
~ David Eddings
Don't think you can act perfectly. A perfect person doesn't exist. Always strive to give your best effort, and that's it.
~ Eraldo Banovac
One can only ask to play as well as possible the notes one is given.
~ Peter Høeg
Do & Give your 100% Always results will be 100%
~ Dinesh Kumar Kashnia
We never earned righteous to last long, why are we trying to earn it among same kind.
~ GANESH
Life is like a boxing match, keep on throwing those punches and one of them will land.Kevin Lane - The Shawshank Prevention
~ Ken Scott
The best time is now. The best thing to do is what you are doing. So do your very best.
~ Debasish Mridha
You don't need to be a great singer to sing, but you have to practice singing to be a great singer.
~ Debasish Mridha
The ability to win increases when you do not fear to struggle.
~ Debasish Mridha
If I lost all, at least I would have played for it. It had always been my philosophy that one must play, or be a loser two-fold.
~ Anna Freeman, The Fair Fight
Anything that comes easy comes wrong.
~ Josephine Tessier
Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.
~ Ishmael Reed
All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.
~ Alfred Douglas
Now that I have written many words, and let out so many loves, for so many, and been altogether what I always was a woman of excess, of zeal and greed, I find the effort useless.
~ Anne Sexton
Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won't.
~ Dorianne Laux
Some people wait to get flowers while others grow gardens.
~ Chris McGeown
Trying to pump breath into a fairy tale is as arduous and tragic as ancient Greek theatre.
~ Terry A. O'Neal