Quotes About Effort

I should have known from watching Henry work at the office: programmers moved slowly and deliberately, and then waited to see the reaction. And if they did not succeed the first time, they would try over and over again, until they broke through that fifth dimension and got it right.

Can you fall for someone because you're lazy?

Only through practice and more practice, until you can do something without conscious effort.

What stands in the way of effortless effort is caring, or a conscious attempt to do well.

In all the universe I'm just a speck of dust, but all I can do is keep trying.

wondered about what he said and then thought hard. I could never be a dick, not to Gretchen anyway, so I guess I was doomed; doomed to go for this girl that didn't go for me. But that was OK as I long as I did everything I could.

When people tell me they will give it a try, I say don't bother, you have already decided to fail. It takes more than a try to quit addictions; it takes a commitment. A commitment is a promise that you stick with, no matter what.

You Cannot Buy Your Health in a Bottle—You Must Earn It!

if you take big steps and climb with all your little might!

When we try to love we are not actually trying to undertake a single endeavor; rather, we are trying to do a whole range of different, and sometimes not very compatible, things simultaneously.

The fact is that the money in our bank account was once something else: work and enterprise. And that money will become something else: possessions and experiences.

It's not automatic that when you marry, your spouse will be your best friend; it's something you have to work towards.

Best friends don't always make the best couple; it takes hard work.

The result of friendship is hard work not by chance.

Some day we will try To do as many things as are possible And perhaps we shall succeed at a handful Of them, but this will not have anything To do with what is promised today, our Landscape sweeping out from us to disappear On the horizon.

The true workers all die in a fidget of frustration. So much to do, and so much left undone.

because it's my job. It's how I make my living. And I'll tell you somethin' else: It's damn hard work bein' a girl full

Teach us to make the most of our time … and make our efforts successful. Yes, make our efforts successful! —Psalm 90:12, 17 NLT

It isn't a matter of getting the body you want, it's a matter of doing the most you can with the body you have.

The only magic in our lives as runners is the magic of consistency. Not every run will make you feel great.

Trying harder doesn't always equal more success; it leads to more frustration, less satisfaction, and giving up.

Suddenly, when the run itself is the goal, there are no more bad runs. Suddenly it doesn't matter if we don't finish within our goal time—or don't finish at all. What matters is that we tried, that we enjoyed the process. What matters is that we got out there.

Maybe there were no villains in my mother's story at all. Just men and women, trying to do their best by each other. And failing.

We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. —Carlos Castaneda Don Juan, Journey to Ixtlan