Quotes About Effort

Here's a good question for you—is greatness in a person born or made?" Tom didn't have an answer. "I think it's a combination." Bert scratched at the bandage on his chin. "Some people are born with a fire inside them. The will to succeed. It isn't a learned behavior. It's just some unknown biological factor that makes them try harder.

Fate is a future you didn't try hard enough ti change. If you want things to go your way, being smart and being strong are helpful, but you still have to work your ass off.

Fate is a future you didn't try hard enough to change. If you want things to go your way, being smart and being strong are helpful, but you still have to work your ass off.

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There are three types of student: The golden student pays and loans, the silver student pays but does not learn, the bronze student learns but does not pay.

To expect wages after doing no work, prosperity after making no effort, or learning after neglecting books is utter foolishness. But to expect heaven without faith in Christ, or the kingdom of God without being born again, or the crown of glory without the cross and a holy walk – all this is greater folly still and yet more common. Sadly, this is the foolishness of the world!

7. En séptimo y último lugar, ¿es sabio enseñar a los creyentes que no piensen tanto en luchar y esforzarse contra el pecado, sino que más bien se "sometan a Dios" y sean pasivos en las manos de Cristo? ¿Coincide esto con lo que afirma la Palabra de Dios? Lo dudo. Es claro que la enseñanza de "someterse a Dios" es algo a lo que Dios

You can give everything you have, and when you're done, you can have more than you began with.

The scientific kind of energy with which we are dealing is officially defined as 'capacity for doing work', and it has the dimensions of 'force-multiplied-by-distance'.

Go for it, while you can. I know you have it in you. And I can't promise you'll get everything you want, but I can promise nothing will change if you don't try.

M]ay not literature (and, in particular, fiction) be considered a desperate and permanently thwarted effort to produce a unique form of expression? Something like a cry, perhaps, a cry that, somehow, inexplicably contains all the millions of words that have ever existed, anywhere, in any age. In contrast with the spoken word and its classifying function, the purpose of writing seems, rather, to be a quest for the egg, the seed, nothing more.

There was a man Who made a boat To sail away And it sank.

Since when was being tired an excuse to stop trying?

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consist in nothing more than in the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.' Logan Pearsall Smith.

It takes just as many men to build a sturdy man, son, as it does to build a tower. You will look back on this time and remember remarkably little of it, excpt the extent to which I tried or did not try.

Sest elus on vist üldsegi nii, et veel tähtsam kui punkt, milleni me oma valitud teel jõuame, on tee ise, mida mööda me oleme üritanud minna --

I want us to be together, Evelyn, which I know won't be easy, but nothing worth having ever comes easy. If there's something you want, you have to work hard to have it. And I want you.

I practice three hours daily on my violin so I won't get worse.

A lazy person never gets what he wants, but a hard-working man gets what he goes after.

I realized that success in most things depends on finding people stupid enough to volunteer to try doing them but smart enough to have a chance of succeeding.

It's just common sense," Mari objected. "Help people realize that what they do matters, that their efforts count and that everyone needs to work together, and they'll work and fight better." Patila shook her head. "Such sense is far from common.

Can you row some more?" "The engines cannae take no more, Captain," Jason muttered in an accent stranger than his usual one, then turned a grin on her. "That's another ancient joke.

You can't win unless you try to win, but you can lose by trying not to lose." She

You Can't Hire Someone Else to Do Your Push-ups for You