Quotes About Effort

Some say long distance relationships never succeed, I say with enough effort, time and commitment, love will find its way.

I wake up in the morning and one thing that I worry about is maybe I may not have done my best for my people. I try always to do my very, very best and if I don't strive the hardest this is what worries me.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

The struggle of life is from the time you wake up till you go back to bed.

He smelled the way a man should smell when he was in your bed and working hard for it.

Why should this happen to me when I planned and worked… and came so far?

The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary.

We don't succeed or fail because of fortune or luck. We succeed because we understand the way the world works and what we have to do. We fail because others understand this better than we do.

This was what few people realize—it's hard work to beat somebody. I have known many an interrogator who has strained a back, pulled a muscle, torn a tendon or a ligament, even broken fingers, toes, hands, and feet, not to mention going hoarse.

talent is something you use, not something that uses you.

The essence of living is discovering. Indeed, it is the joy of discovering that makes life worth the effort.

Ordinary people live wanting, all their life. Successful people are willing to work for all their wants.

The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war

In life, you get what you negotiated, not what you deserved.

In life you never get what you deserve: You get what you negotiate.

you will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.

But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they merely make me pant with the effort of holding them up for a few minutes. But if they're good, I turn into a social moron for days, refusing to go out of my room, scowling and growling at interruptions, ignoring weddings and funerals, and making enemies out of friends. I still bear the scars of Middlemarch.

Always encourage others to do their very best, for God may be giving you one big test.

An alarm clock is a proof that man has to get up and work hard.

By doing; you inspire others to try, so keep doing.

Everybody wishes to know, but nobody is ready to pay the price.

He who does not know how to walk cannot climb a ladder.

He who is in the habit of sitting in the shade will not take an axe to the tree.