Quotes About Effort

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them.

What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage.

Basically, discipline, effort, patience and courage are hugely important core values for kids to grow up embracing.

My dad taught us that there's no greater distance than that between first and second place.

And like my dad always said, the first step is always the hardest.

The effort you put forth to anything transcends yourself, for there is no futility even in death.

If you do anything for too long, it starts to lack edge, to become too easy. Easy is the kiss of death.

Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.

You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death.

He'd fought hard, Lida told me, as if there was another way to fight.

Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest.

Nothing illegal is achieved without patience.' Benjamin Franklin.

Trabalho - Certas pessoas anseiam por trabalho, qualquer trabalho, por mais pesado e desagradável que seja, a fim de drenar a dureza de suas vidas e afastar da mente os pensamentos homicidas...

I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.

prayer, and only prayer, restores my vision to one that more resembles God's. i awake from blindness to see that wealth lurks as a terrible danger, not a goal worth striving for; that value depends not on race or status but on the image of God every person bears; that no amount of effort to improve physical beauty has much relevance for the world beyond.

The committee has again been reminded that every human effort is flawed

It takes great effort, and considerable faith, to keep the Big Picture in mind. In some ways it makes me feel utterly insignificant, in some ways eternally significant

a long period of struggle and effort precedes nearly all worthwhile human accomplishments.

It has taken me years to distill the Gospel out of the subculture in which I first encountered it. Sadly, many of my friends gave up on the effort, never getting to Jesus because the pettiness of the church blocked the way.

Writing is like baseball: you fail two-thirds of the time.

Inspiration exists but it must find you working.

The Zombie Master, a bachelor, had a good store of provisions but evidently survived mainly on those that required least effort to prepare: cheese balls, fried eggs from the friers that nested on the rafters, hot dogs from the dogwood that grew just inside the moat, and shrimp from the shrimp plants in the courtyard.

all of a sudden he will catch sight of something wonderfully beautiful in its nature; that, Socrates, is the reason for all his earlier labors