Quotes About Effort

Maybe the important thing is to keep trying, no matter how hard it feels.

That's the way it has to be. If you're not really into something, you don't put the time in, so you don't get good at it. Passion is the key to everyone's gifts.

You've rowed again?' I can hear the disapproval in her voice. 'Em … you can't go on like this.

We must be doing something right.' 'Tis mostly your doing,' Furlong admitted. 'Where am I ever only away all day then home to the table and up to bed and gone again before they rise.

Then you fail. And you try again. You keep at it, despite failing, or because of failing, if that makes sense. It's like creating that perfect recipe. You rework and rework and rework it until you get it right.

Instead of regretting what we cannot do, it is better to do anything we can do. Even if what we do does not bring us to our goal, it brings us much closer to it.

Because we knew you were waiting, we did our best so that we'd return.

Still, smiles followed tears; they kept working and Jessy kept trying, and together they moved forward.

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes." ~ ' They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes." -

All the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. But before prehistory there was the prehistory of the prehistory and there was the never and there was the yes. It was ever so. I don't know why, but I do know that the universe never began. Make no mistake, I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort.

Que ninguém se engane: só se consegue a simplicidade através de muito trabalho.

Reality is the raw material, language is the way I go in search of it - and the way I do not find it. But it is from searching and not finding that what I did not know was born, and which I instantly recognise. Language is my human effort. My destiny is to search and my destiny is to return empty-handed. But - I return with the unsayable. The unsayable can only be given to me through the failure of my language. Only when the construction fails, can I obtain what I could not achieve.

the greatest obstacle to my progress is me. I myself have been the biggest difficulty in my path. It's with enormous effort that I'm able to overcome myself.

No, no es fácil escribir. Es duro como partir rocas. Pero saltan chispas y astillas como aceros pulidos.

What an effort I make to be myself. I struggle against a tide in a boat with just enough room for my two feet in a perilous and fragile balance.

All the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. But before prehistory there was the prehistory of prehistory and there was the never and there was the yes. It was ever so. I don't know why, but I do know that the universe never began. Make no mistake, I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort.

Persistence is our effort, giving up is the reward.

Make no mistake, I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort.

El lenguaje es mi esfuerzo humano.

In spite of sheer concentration and every effort of will power, Byrd could not avoid the terrible evenness and loneliness of silence.

The rosary is not a spiritual practice to be perfected with effort. It is a devotion that reminds us of our connection to a Mother whose very body is our planet and our home.

Constant and determined effort breaks down all resistence and sweeps away all obstacles.

What isn't tried won't work.

I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint...