Quotes About Effort

The foundation of your life is luck. Hard work and talent make up the difference.

He wanted to go on for hours. He wanted someone to listen to him and to understand that speech wasn't just about communicating ideas or opinions. Sometimes, it was about trying to convey whole human lives. And while you knew even before you opened your mouth that you'd fail, somehow the trying was what mattered. The trying was all you had.

Work and its results always outlived those who labored at it as any Egyptian slave-ghost will tell you.

Gratitude: Only when people remember the good others have done for them will they have gratitude. Unfortunately, however, most people remember the bad people have done to them far longer than the good. Or to put it another way, gratitude takes effort; resentment is effortless.

Everything worthwhile in life is attained through hard work. Happiness is not an exception.

Gratitude takes effort; resentment is effortless.

One day, however, the thought occurred to me that being unhappy was easy—in fact, the easy way out—and that it took no courage, effort, or greatness to be unhappy. Anyone could be unhappy.

happiness is a battle to be waged and not a feeling to be awaited.

Everything worthwhile in life is attained through hard work.

What are you doing extra? That's what counts. That's when you're working hard - when you're going above and over what's expected of you (102) - Tony Gonzalez, The Giant Within

Every word I have written took the wrong approach. I

That is the effort, the labour of the Antillean imagination, rebuilding its gods from bamboo frames, phrase by phrase.

well, if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished at any given moment?

That's what he got for neglecting his work to go on wild-goose chases to impress a girl

He was pressing himself against the wall as though trying to get through it by osmosis.

Meals were the daily bane of my existence; not so much the constant work of picking, cleaning, chopping, cooking—though those activities were fairly baneful in themselves—but primarily the never-ending chore of remembering what we had on hand, and balancing the effort required to make it edible against the knowledge of what might spoil if we didn't eat it right away.

well, if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished at any given moment?

if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished at any given moment?

bedframe shuddering with the force of the struggle taking place

As a mother, I had the lightness now of effort complete, honor satisfied. Mission accomplished.

Do you think that the size of the book is justified by the complexity of the story? Grey asked, leaning forward to light a charoot from the candle on the sideboard. It must after all be a great expense to the publisher, as well as requiring a substantial effort from the reader, a book of that length?

fumbling up her

Rebekah looked like a wee dolly, but she was surprisingly solid, as he found when she put her foot in his hands and he tossed her up into the saddle. She didn't manage to swing her leg over and instead lay across the saddle like a dead deer, waving her arms and legs in agitation. Wrestling her into an upright position and getting himself set behind her left him red-faced and sweating, far more than dealing with the horses had. Jamie

The only thing that we can do is to work on all the aspects of our game.