Quotes About Effort

Life is like a bicycle you don't fall off unless you stop pedaling.

Claudia Mills

Yes, and though watching tennis isn't a cure for feeling, it is a clean displacement of effort, will, and disappointment.

it is a clean displacement of effort, will, and disappointment.

And also don't forget, the reason opportunity is often missed is that it usually comes disguised as hard work.

the reason opportunity is often missed is that it usually comes disguised as hard work.

The extra mile is a lot longer than the rest.

There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.

I do make an attempt to always get that first take…. You're not stepping up to bunt. You're stepping up to hit the damn thing.

If it feels like a mistake before you go in, don't go in. Even when working with a whole heart, you are bound to have the occasional failure, and sometimes the whole heart will be the reason: caring too much can make you try too hard, and what should have sung will merely simper. But to work with half a heart means failure every time, and the results will scream the place down.

Many attempt without success to make up for their lack of talent with defects of character.

Any pipsqueak can roar like a lion on paper, because grand words cost little, whereas delicacy—the delicacy of Chopin for example, persevering to the extreme, tense, elaborate—requires effort and character. —WITOLD GOMBROWICZ,

the application of effort should always be exactly measured: nothing by force, everything by logical progression.

I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have.

I'm left doing all the unskilled labor myself, which is exactly when you realize there's nothing unskilled about labor.

Maximum mental energy' had never been Kevin's strong point.

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Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Los grandes resultados requieren grandes ambiciones" (Heráclito)

Los buscadores de oro mucha tierra cavan y encuentran poco

Men dig tons of earth to find an ounce of gold.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work.

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.