Quotes About Effort

Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection.

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He decided to volunteer as a reading tutor at their local elementary school. These were tiny steps, but he must try to make amends. If you ever gave up trying to change and improve yourself, you were finished, kaput. He remembered the last conversation he'd had with Tom Lieu, before

Far less well known is that more than ten thousand women traveled to Washington, D.C., to lend their minds and their hard-won educations to the war effort.

You talk here about greatness. I just wanted to ask if you could understand what it was we were going for. That there is greatness in the attempt - something in the trying. That in trying, we set up a certain scaffolding that a new generation can use to climb to heights we only dreamed of.

The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.

Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.

You cannot read Dickens without putting in a little more effort. You cannot eat a ripe pawpaw without its innards and juice spilling down your chin. Likewise, the language of Dickens makes your mouth do strange things, and when you're not used to his words your jaw will creak.

The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities.

When you see a guy reach for stars in the sky You can bet that he's doing it for some doll.

All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than in the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

If I want to catch the damn worm I get outta bed.

Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection.

I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow isthe higher achievement.

Aim high. You may still miss the target but at least you won't shoot your foot off.

Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.

Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.

Focus on what you can do, then do it with all your heart.

We shall play every game to the hilt with every ounce of fiber we have in our bodies.

To achieve success, whatever the job we have, we must pay a price.

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?