Quotes About Effort

what i really want - and what i never get - is to be appreciated. do you know what it's like to work so hard to make sure everyone's happy, and to have not a single person recognize it

You spend so much time, so much effort, trying to hold yourself together. And then everything falls apart anyway.

Everyone tried with me. And everytime, it felt like the whole point of life was to see if trying was ever enough.

your life isn't out there waiting, so don't think all you have to do is find it and get it. no, your life is right here. and, yeah, it sucks. lives usually do. so if you want things to change, you don't need to get a life. you need to get off your ass.

I am made for running. Because when you run, you could be anyone. You hone yourself into a body, nothing more or less than a body. You respond as a body, to the body. If you are racing to win, you have no thoughts but the body's thoughts, no goals but the body's goals. You obliterate yourself in the name of speed. You negate yourself in order to make it past the finish line.

Beauty comes naturally, but it's hard to be stunning by accident.

The frustration is in how pointless the effort was

Easy things are worthless, Laurie says. and I realzie he's talking to both Sean and me. It's the hard things that matter. Those are the things worth leaping for.

I guess I don't believe these thing can ever be easy, although I also don't see why they have to be hard.

I wanted love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything. It can't do anything on its own. It relies on us to do the conquering on its behalf.

You spend so much time, so much effort, trying to hold yourself togheter. And then everything falls apart anyway.

I fear you may have outmatched me, because now I find these words have nowhere to go. It's hard to answer a question you haven't been asked. It's hard to show that you tried unless you end up succeeding.

People who want things to be perfect are always impossible to please. But that doesn't mean we should stop trying. Even if their expectations aren't correct, their instincts are. You won't get everything right, the trying is what matters.

I wanted love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything. It can't do anything on it's own. It relies on us to the conquering on its behalf.

I wanted love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything. It can't do anything on its own. It relies on us to do the conquering on its behalf.

It's the hard things that matter. Those are the things worth leaping for.

He gives me a low smile. You know, sometimes I wish I had your life. But I'm sure I wouldn't be much good at it. I'm not that goos at it myself. You get by. So do you. I try.

I fear you may have outmatched me, because now I find these words have nowhere to go. It's hard to answer a question you haven't been asked. It's hard to show that you tried unless you end up succeeding.

It's hard to show that you tried unless you end up succeeding.

I know the odds are all against us and I know you feel this way too So I know I would rather die trying to know if I could mean something to you

Queria que o amor conquistasse tudo. Mas o amor não conquista tudo. Ele não pode fazer nada sozinho. Ele depende de nós para conquistar em seu nome.

Want costs you nothing, unless you try to spend it.

I run. I am made for running. Because when you run, you could be anyone. You hone yourself into a body, nothing more or less than a body. You respond as a body, to the body. If you are racing to win, you have no thoughts but the body's thoughts, no goals but the body's goals. You obliterate yourself in the name of speed. You negate yourself in order to make it past the finish line.

The weight does not life itself, although over time it lightens. Sometimes we need to push. And sometimes that is very hard.