Quotes About Effort

It's no go my honey love, it's no go my poppet;Work your hands from day to day, the winds will blow the profit.The glass is falling hour by hour, the glass will fall forever,But if you break the bloody glass you won't hold up the weather.

It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.

Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. you'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it.

Everything's such an effort, even caring a little. Even being such a gigantic fuck-up wears me out.

Housekeeping ain't no joke.

I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks; and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end. (Jo March)

I have been taking stock of my 50 years since I left Wichita. How I have existed fills me with horror for I failed in everything. Spelling, arithmetic, writing, swimming, tennis, golf, dancing, singing, acting, wife, mistress, whore, friend, even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of not trying. I tried with all my heart.

If you want to move to another room, you have to get up and move step by step in that direction. Just sitting in your chair and demanding that you be in the other room will not work. It's the same thing. We all want our problem to be over with, but we don't want to do the small things that will add up to the solution.

We are doing the best we can with the understanding, awareness, and knowledge we have.

We're all doing the best we can with the understanding, knowledge, and awareness we have.

Six Stars,' he exclaimed. 'Finding the right words is hard!

It's a shame that creativity and sloth look exactly the same.

All will be as it should, if we just do our best.

Not everyone makes the boat, she thought.

he wondered if, in his effort to get to safety, he wasn't fleeing from a wreck but causing it.

intensity, as though trying to place

Everything. And I don't just mean in business. As humans, we invest not just money. We spend time. We spend effort. There's a reason it's put like that. Life's short, and time is precious and limited. We need to pick and choose where to put it.

Some things in life are not pleasant but they have to be done. For instance, German and maths.

A logical way to begin working on your marriage is to see whether you believe a good marriage is possible between you and your partner. Unless you have some hope for your marriage, you will have little reason to work on it.

No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him. There is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil.

Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.

When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.

The first is that I firmly believe that much of the quality we call intelligence is quantitative: he who finds the correct solution to a problem has simply tried out more things that he who does not.

Gentil é uma palavra como caridade; implica um esforço. Como aquela frase de para-choque de caminhão que fala de gestos aleatórios de gentileza. Gentil deveria ser o modo como uma pessoa é sempre, não um gesto que ela opta por fazer.