Quotes About Effort

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.

AS AN ADULT, I've found life to be pretty predictable for the most part. Work hard. Set goals. Don't expect anything to be handed to you. Remember that perfection doesn't exist.

A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well." ? Frederick Douglass

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. – Henry David Thoreau

Psychologically speaking, they tend also to be filled with grim, but devoted, researchers whose accumulated disappointment in not making big breakthroughs is quite tangible — even if they do manage to smile at subjects.

was not until 1995, some twenty-three years later, that the Clementine craft was sent to the Moon. This, however, was a U.S. Army project, not a NASA effort.

There is no fate... no predestination... no luck. Don't use that as an excuse to not live the life you want. Work for it. You make your future - no one else.

intentions. If our intentions are good and we are willing to ask for and offer forgiveness and express gratitude and loving feelings for another person, we usually feel better for having made the effort. Sometimes that needs to be enough. If the other person responds warmly, that's great. But, in matters of this sort, there is intrinsic value in making a good-faith effort. He said that all of this made sense and he would give it some thought.

Nice work if you can get it,And you can get it if you try.

Holding hands at midnight 'Neath a starry sky... Nice work if you can get it And you can get it -- if you try.

It's hard to make something that's interesting. It's really, really hard. It's like a law of nature, a law of aerodynamics, that anything that's written or anything that's created wants to be mediocre. The natural state of all writing is mediocrity... So what it takes to make anything more than mediocre is such an act of will...

The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.

It's gonna take a while. It's normal to take a while. You've just gotta fight your way through.

Thank you," he said politely. "Though I doubt if such extreme measures were necessary in my case. I'm not a warlike man." "Too much effort?" Lani asked. He beamed at her. "Exactly. How pleasant to be understood.

If you do not sow in the spring you will not reap in the autumn.

Making the beginning is one third of the work.

The work praises the man.

Good luck beats early rising.

As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.

Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.

Talent is only the starting point.

Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.

Psalms 127:1." Slowly, Eaton leafed through the book, and then he said, "Is this it? 'Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

Why does a man spend fifty years of his life in an occupation that is often painful? I once told a class I was teaching that writing is an intellectual contact sport, similar in some respects to football. The effort required can be exhausting, the goal unreached, and you are hurt on almost every play; but that doesn't deprive a man or a boy from getting peculiar pleasures from the game.