Quotes About Effort

It's all you can say, when the end comes: 'I did not waste my time.' I think that matters. I think it may be all that matters.

Lo que es estupido es esforzarse por lograr algo que nunca será nuestro.

Our hands are hot and raw with the stones we have laid, We have built a tower of stone high into the sky, We have built a city of towers.

Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Monday - tried to prove theorem, Tuesday - tried to prove theorem, Wednesday - tried to prove theorem, Thursday - tried to prove theorem, Friday - theorem false.

Dar cel care cauta asa cum trebuie gaseste intotdeauna. Nu exista vreo problema fara solutie. Daca nu o gasesti, e pentru ca nu ai cautat-o asa cum trebuie ori indeajuns. Orice broasca are o cheie. Nici un lacatus nu este destul de nebun ca sa fabrice broaste fara cheie.

Music at its best...is the grand archeology into and transfiguration of our guttural cry, the great human effort to grasp in time our deepest passions and yearnings as prisoners of time. Profound music leads us--beyond language--to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.

To try deliberately for self-actualization is like trying very hard to fall asleep or to have a good time.

Perhaps only when human effort had done its best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work.

It was strange that a society which hid the facts of sex from children made no effort to shield them from death.

This was evil's hour: we could not run away from it. Perhaps only when human effort had done its best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work.

our welfare in the hereafter depended on how much we could accomplish here on earth.

forward. This was evil's hour: we could not run away from it. Perhaps only when human effort had done its best and failed, would God's power

We're going to fight this battle with everything we have, and we will probably lose. But then we will fight it again, and we will lose a little less, for this battle will win us many supporters. And then we'll lose *again*. And *again*. And we will fight on. Because as hard as it is to win by fighting, it's impossible to win by doing nothing.

It's so easy to grow apart marriage takes work.

we can't expect anything important in life to be easy or entirely enjoyable

everyone knows how to lose weight—it's just a matter of wanting it badly enough to make it work

Lyndie was still something of a mystery to him. Hard to know, with an exterior that would be difficult to crack, but he wouldn't stop trying until she let him in. Something told him she would be worth the extra effort--did she see that about herself? Would she ever?

People are always looking for a shortcut to success, but there's no substitute for hard work and dedication.

I learned to pick up each piece, one at a time, from my pile of potential matches and try to fit it from any angle into the socket, then discard it and move on. Each failure is meaningless. It's not me, it's the pieces, and I have to, absolutely must, try each and every piece every possible way until I find one that fits. They aren't failures, they're steps, small bits of progress.

I found out it is just as hard to make a movie that you are not proud of as it is to make one you love.

But if we've honestly done everything we can, by definition we can't do anything more.

It took seven hours to get Thomas Kilgannon

Even a mistake is better than nothing.