Quotes About Effort

If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.

Success consists of a series of little daily efforts.

The gods never ask for the promise of success, only that we try.

You went for bronze over brains.

I love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can.

Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.

I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.

Even pleasure itself is a toil.

Man i s given by Nature, a gift, and that gift is the privilege of labor. Through labor he learns all things.

I was just doing my job in the ring and doing my best to make people happy.

You have chosen the wrong path if it's not fun. And you are probably not taking enough risk if it's not hard and rocky sometimes.

Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.

All it takes is all you got.

I know you've probably heard that in show business it can take twenty years to create an overnight success but what you don't hear is that that is the exact same amount of time it takes to create a bitter failure.

it can take twenty years to create an overnight success but what you don't hear is that that is the exact same amount of time it takes to create a bitter failure.

The English remained paralysed by their own rivalries until the following April, at which point Æthelred made an invaluable contribution to the war effort by dropping dead, clearing the way for Edmund to succeed him.

L'homme est fait pour un instant de labeur et pour une éternelle paresse.

One also found there, in those days, a certain number of people learning to master bicycles. With fixed gaze and clenched jaws, they would suddenly bolt away from their teacher, shoot across the avenue, vanish into a thicket, and reappear with their machines round their necks.

There are mountainous, arduous days, up which one takes an infinite time to climb, and downward-sloping days which one can descend at full tilt, singing as one goes.

To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some effort, a genuine descent to the heart of oneself . . . Only desire and love give us the strength to make this effort. The only books that we truly absorb are those we read with real appetite, after having worked hard to get them, so great had been our need of them.

So few are the easy victories as the ultimate failures.

We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.

Anything we have not had to decipher, to bring to light by our own effort, anything which was already clearly visible, is not our own.

We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us