Quotes About Effort

But, drawn to her at that moment, he felt a quiet like the voice of the rain flow over him. He knew well enough that for her it was in fact no waste of effort, but somehow the final determination that it was had the effect of distilling and purifying the woman's existence.

You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what's left.

The experience of listening to an hour's music you barely know in a dead language you do not understand is a strange falling and rising experience. For minutes at a time you are walking deep into it, you seem to understand. Then, without knowing how or when exactly, you discover you have wandered away, bored or tired from the effort, and now you are nowhere near the music.

Those are my bougainvillea—I got Victoria to plant them today, but I don;t know if they will survive. But Right now they have the appearance of survival, which is almost the same thing.

Il romanzo e' una strada a due sensi dove la fatica che si richiede a entrambe le parti alla fine risulta uguale. Leggere, se lo si fa come si deve, e' difficile tanto quanto scrivere.

yes, with the mothers she had to make a little more effort, drowning them in language until they understood how out of their depth they were and the thin stream of their objections was completely subsumed by the quick-running currents of my mother's talk.

I won't always say the right thing, I won't always make you smile, I won't always make you happy.....but I will always try, and i will always be here for you....waiting for you to open your eyes and realize how much I love you.

nothing beats a fail but a try.

if she had just climbed a laborsome

Once he had said to her that a man should never be judged by the result of his labors, but by the nature of his effort.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.

Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little.

Officiating is trying to do your absolute best with what you've got.

At the end of my career I always wanted to look back and know that I had given it my absolute best.

When you have seven to eight players performing game after game, you are on an absolute roll.

I was spectacularly average at school, while my two brothers did really well academically. But my dad never said I didn't try hard enough. He knew I did my best.

I find the scouse accent a bit difficult, but I will try my best.

Even if I know that people can hear my French accent, my goal is to provide the best English as possible when I act.

You don't play the game to lose. But I also understand that if people are giving their 100% effort, giving it all they've got, it's going to be accepted.

You don't score 20 goals a season by accident!

I try to focus on myself and focus on my team, and the individual accolades will come.

Nothing has been easy for me... I've always had to work for everything I've gotten and everything I've accomplished.