Quotes About Effort

I did as well as I knew how and have nothing to be ashamed of.

I will do my best so that I won't feel ashamed of myself in the future.

The Ashes have been hard, but you take the accolades when they come along.

You turn up to an Ashes series and put everything you can into it.

It is hard to win in Asia.

Güte ist nicht ohne Klippen: man schreibt sie dem Charakter zu und erkennt die stille Bemühung einer schönen Seele nur selten an. Die Bösen dagegen belohnt man für das Böse, das sie nicht tun.

hay que ensuciarse las manos si uno quiere cocinar;

I know very well that before an audience plain, honest truth may fail to be contagious or even welcome. But have you never remarked that, by using our opportunities wisely, we finally meet with days which may be called the festivals of morality and intelligence, days on which, naturally and almost without effort, the thought of good triumphs?

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.

Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.

As crazy as hauling timber into the woods.

Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.(When I labor to be brief, I become obscure.)

He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.

Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate

Fields plowed and sown, but yielding no fruit! Machinery constantly in motion, but all without one particle of produce! Nets cast into the sea and spread wide, but no fishes caught! All this for years – for a lifetime!

The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.

Few things in life are as enjoyable as when we concentrate on a difficult task, using all our skills, knowing what has to be done.

and yet there was not a definable thought in his mind. Only a terrifying effort to get from one side of a match box to another.

Certainly, reading Post-Structuralist prose is a form of work, like jogging with a nail in your shoe.

People choose the paths that grant them the greatest rewards for the least amount of effort. That's the law of nature, and you defied it.

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward in my actions and not from them.

It's not that we fear the place of darkness but that we don't think we are worth the effort to find the place of light.

It's not that we fear the place of darkness, but that we don't think we are worth the effort to find the place of light.