Quotes About Effort

They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

Heroes in drama are people who try hard to reach a virtuous ideal. And whether they succeed or fail really doesn't matter - it's the trying that counts.

The hours, minutes and seconds stand as visible reminders that your effort put them all there. Preserve until your next run, when the watch lets you see how Impermanent your efforts are.

If you don't have that vision for the end goal, you have no clue where you're going, and you're going to work very hard to go nowhere.

You can't just set the vision, take a nap, and not keep working on making your vision happen. Your intention has to be backed by work.

Almost is always the hardest, isn't it? Almost getting something.

In some ways, Mary thought, Irma lived her whole life anxious to get things over with, as if she knew the end of her story all along, and didn't feel the middle pages worth the effort of a read.

A man's got to keep company a long time, and come early and stay late and sit close, before he can get a girl or a job worth having.

There's nothing comes without calling in this world, and after you've called you've generally got to go and fetch it yourself.

After forty years of close acquaintance with it, I've found that work is kind to its friends and harsh to its enemies. It pays the fellow who dislikes it his exact wages, and they're generally pretty small; but it gives the man who shines up to it all the money he wants and throws in a heap of fun and satisfaction for good measure.

I'm just tired of hearing about God all the time. What has He got to do with anything?... I'm not going to be immoral or commit crimes because I don't believe. I don't even think about that. I just get so tired of Him getting the credit for things the human race achieves through its own effort. Now, there simply is no God. There's only man. And it's he who makes miracles.

Won't know unless you try

You should watch your words, Your Grace. I shall take them to heart." "I should like that, Miss Darling." "You seem to be flirting with me, Your Grace, but I don't think you should lose sight of the fact that I'm with you tonight only because of your threat to have one of my orphans arrested." "I only seem to be flirting? Then I must put forth greater effort so I leave no doubt.

Probabilmente no, quindi ti lascio con un piccolo consiglio, dato che conosci tanto bene le carte. La vita è come loro. Vincere non consiste nell'avere una buona mano, ma nel giocarne bene una mediocre.

Gardening requires lots of water — most of it in the form of perspiration.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

See, winners embrace hard work.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.

Nothing worth having comes without a cost. A

Our change is more about trusting and less about trying.

I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.

It's not the thing you fling, it's the fling itself.

You boys have saddled your bronc, now let's see if you can ride him