Quotes About Effort

The effort flops like a just-caught fish inside her. A brief burst of possibility as the name is typed onto the screen, as she clicks to activate the search. Hope thrashing in the process of turning cold.

He was increasingly aware these days of how much he owned, of the ongoing effort his life required. The thousands of trips to the grocery store he had made, all the heaping bags of food, first paper, then plastic, now canvas sacks brought from home, unloaded from the trunk of the car and unpacked and stored in cupboards, all to sustain a single body.

Containers may be the destiny of many in that they hold our remains after death. But this novel reminds us that narrative refuses to stay put, and that the effort of telling stories only pins things down so far. In the end it is language itself that is the most problematic container; it holds too much and too little at the same time.

Like the star that shines afar, Without haste and without rest, Let each one wheel with steady sway Round the task that rules the day, And do their best.

To never aspire to excellence means to never fully comprehend the amount of work required to achieve it.

Work is no longer challenging.

Few persons realize how much of their happiness, such as it is, is dependent upon their work.

If you don't have enough time to accomplish something, consider the work finished once it's begun.

When you think something is cool already, it's okay to put in an honest day's work.

A life of complete leisure is the hardest work of all.

There is no such thing as 'staying in shape;' you either work to get better, or you allow yourself to get worse.

Let us go forth and resolutely dare with sweat of brow to toil our little day.

In life, we choose whether or not we want to be a winner or a loser. To be a winner, we must devote time and hard work. To be a loser you do nothing, and that's exactly what you will get, nothing.

There's no better way to mess up a good cowdog than to let him discover that goofing off beats the heck out of hard work.

Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

Work first, and then rest.

Of human work none but what is bad can be perfect in its own bad way.

Processes don't do work, people do

You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk.

Mechanizing man's work had changed but not lighted his toil.

Success is mine when I work my hardest to become my best, and I alone determine whether I do so.

There is no such thing as great work without longevity.

It is possible for love to grow and multiply if you work at it.