Quotes About Effort

All happiness is built upon small efforts.

But some people are born lucky. They lead happy lives without even trying. Ridiculous, isn't it?

You shouldn't always take the path of least resistance. It can become a habit.

If you're going to give up so quickly, I don't think you'll last long but you should try telling yourself you won't ever give up. Nobody can say how this will turn out but you should try the hardest you've ever tried in your life so you'll have no regrets

It's sweet. All this trouble for a kitty.

Maybe, Hazel decided, maybe they could both learn how. Not just making-up-stories-in-which-you're-happy happiness, but the real thing. She leaned across the bed and hugged him with all the strength in her limbs, hugged him until her bones ached. But no matter how hard she hugged him, she knew it would never be enough. "I promise," she whispered. "I'll try.

Call tried to call

You were always good,' he says, looking down at me. 'Just never good enough.

The idea that I can untangle everything seems as impossible as spinning straw in to gold, but each night I stay awake until the sun is high in the sky, trying my hardest to do just that.

Crees que yo planeé tu humillación? —Se ríe—. ¿Yo? Eso implicaría esforzarse.

Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place," she reads. "If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!

The seeds of Prince Cardan's resentment came full bloom. What was the point of her trying so hard? Why would she work like that when it would never win her anything? ... He had never tried like that for anything in his life. Jude, Cardan though, hating even the shape of her name. Jude.

You were always good," he says, looking down at me. "Just never good enough.

Since I never intended to quit, it's nice to have someone making all this effort to get me to do something I would have done anyway.

But let me quote President Theodore Roosevelt: 'Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

The last couple relationships I had were long distance. It's not like I can make much of an effort to travel and see anybody. The guy had to do all the work, unfortunately.

Implicit in sloth is the unwillingness to exert oneself in the performance of duty because of the sacrifice and effort required.

They strove to pile Ossa on Olympus, and on Ossa Pelion with its leafy forests, that they might scale the heavens.

It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive.

Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike.

If you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.

You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.

Trying is the first step towards failure.

All happiness depends on courage and work.