Quotes About Effort

And she realized everything one does is just another effort to be understood by someone a little bit more.

Lentäminen on niin vaikeaa, ettei kukaan lentäisi, ellei se olisi niin vaikeaa.

A lot of childhood effort, worry, and whispering goes into cracking the codes of adult life. Children have to be accomplished spies.

The weight of the world is a trifle, if we all put our two fingers under it and try to lift together.

Anyone can work, but allowing the work to take effect demands a good recovery plan.

Get them off the Internet and stop them from looking for shortcuts. The human body does not adapt any faster than it did 30 years ago, so why should we expect performance gains to be accomplished faster today?

Training will produce measurable results. Failing to train will also produce a measurable result. The training process is cumulative.

Half-assed programming was a time-filler that, like knitting, must date to the beginning of the human experience. Of

Funny. You talk of life as if it were a train you have to catch up with. How long have you been trying, three days? And not got a glimpse of it yet, in spite of caviar and champagne?

Remember when you first learned how to swim? In the beginning you struggled mightily to keep your head above water. But then, one day, something amazing happened: You gave up fighting to stay afloat. And when you did, you rose to the surface and floated effortlessly.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and an invisible labour.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labour and there is invisible labour.

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil. To think is to do.

Only the mediocre artist is always at his best.

The point is that it doesn't matter if you look like a beast before or after the hit, as long as you look like a beauty at the moment of impact.

Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.

How much wit, good-nature, indulgences, how many good offices and civilities, are required among friends to accomplish in some years what a lovely face or a fine hand does in a minute!

I could not imagine that we should make much of an effort to preserve remainders of natural beauty in conquered Poland.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

No matter who or where we are, or what our capabilities, we are called to do the best we can.

Let us not try to be the best or worst of others, but let us make the effort to be the best of ourselves.