Quotes About Effort

Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband, for the same reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day, than to say bright things from time to time.

Life is a business transaction.

We may scale cliffs; but to tramp forever in the mud is another thing.

Es mucho más fácil quedar bien como amante que como marido; porque es mucho mas fácil ser oportuno e ingenioso de vez en cuando que todos los días

El error de los hombres superiores es gastar los años de su juventud en hacerse dignos de la estimación de los demás.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls

Ne güvenli ne baya?? ne de çok görkemli olun, bu tutumlar?n üçü de insan? gözden dü?ürür. Fazla güven sayg?y? azalt?r, baya??l?k küçümsenmenize yol açar, fazla çaba da sömürülmenize neden olur.

Like the moth whose feet are caught in the molten wax of a candle, Rouget rapidly used up his remaining energy.

Writers kid themselves -- about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods. Writing is just work -- there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes -- it's still just work.

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

We support every effort to combat international terrorism through the formulation of international conventions and hope that the international community will take further steps to improve the anti-terrorism international legal framework.

Perhaps nothing was ever "meant to be." There was just life, and right now, and doing your best. Being a bit "bendy.

A marriage is hard work and sometimes it's a bit of a bore. It's like housework. It's never finished. You've just got to grit your teeth and keep working away at it, day after day.

Perhaps there were no answers to questions like that. Perhaps nothing was ever "meant to be." There was just life, and right now, and doing your best. Being a bit "bendy.

It's hard to want something so badly and give it your all and then not get it. There's this idea that all you need to do is believe in yourself,

You can choose the right shot, you can have a good swing and good technique, you can do everything right, and it can still go wrong. No player, no matter how good, makes one hundred percent of their shots. Some days you lose. They'd drummed that into the children too. You can be number one in the world, you can win and win and win but it's inevitable: eventually you will lose.

Sometimes it was exhilaratingly easy to be happy again. Other times they found that they did have to "try".

There was nothing Joy could do to change the outcome of her children's lives, any more than she could have changed the outcome of their matches, no matter how hard

he pays money to lift weights at the gym, so why not lift a few boxes for free? Have

Perhaps nothing was ever "meant to be." There was just life, and right now, and doing your best. Being a bit "bendy." "We'll

A marriage is hard work and sometimes it's a bit of a bore. It's like housework. It's never finished. You've just got to grit your teeth and keep working away at it, day after day. Of course, the men don't work as hard at it as we do, but that's men for you, isn't it? They're not much good at housework either.

He did nothing that he wasn't obliged to do because the effort of existence exhausted him. He slept whenever he could. Getting up each morning was like moving his limbs through thick mud.

You can choose the right shot, you can have a good swing and good technique, you can do everything right, and it can still go wrong. No player, no matter how good, makes one hundred percent of their shots. Some days you lose.