Quotes About Effort

Work is the only good thing.

It is possible that his virtue lived on a lack of energy.

A good writer always works at the impossible.

Tu quello che puoi fare devi farlo lo stesso. L'importante,' diceva, 'è sapere che ogni volta che c'è un piccolo passo avanti, poi c'è pure una scivolata indietro, ma mai così indietro come prima. E' la differenza,' diceva, 'dimostra che quello che hai fatto era giusto farlo. E non era una perdita di tempo pure se magari sembrava di sì.

Why did it revolt me and leave a taste like a spoiled egg? Am I so good, or so kind, or so just? I don't think so. Am I so proud? Well, there's some of that. Am I lazy, too lazy to be involved? There;s an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort.

Just set one day's work in front of the last day's work. That's the way it comes out. And that's the only way it does.

There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort. There

You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk.

rose like cream to the top of milk.

Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry.

I once did something right. I played first-rate basketball. I really did. And after you're first-rate at something, no matter what, it kind of takes the kick out of being second-rate.

Life is a hill that gets steeper the more you climb.

Her son is poisonous, Everything he touches. With all her maternal effort she's brought destruction into the world.

Being a great writer is not the same as writing great.

They found themselves involved willy-nilly in a futile but urgent search for the truth.

Ruth was funny. Her bowling was awful; she just sort of paddled up to the line and dropped the ball. Plok.

It's the truth. It just felt like the whole business was fetching and hauling, all the time trying to hold this mess together she was making all the time.

Remember this your lifetime through: Tomorrow there will be more to do. And failure waits for all who stay With some success made yesterday. Tomorrow you must try once more, And even harder than before.

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Success is peace of mind in knowing you did your best.

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Never mistake activity for achievement.

Little things make the big things happen

Remember, results aren't the criteria for success — it's the effort made for achievement that is most important.