Quotes About Effort

Effort. Thats the only thing I'm asking for. Its so simple yet people make it seem like its so hard.

Im tired, tired of putting more effort than you do. I'm tired of always having to start the conversation and if I dont, you don't even bother. I keep telling myself that if you wanted to talk to me, you would.

Getting outta bed is one of the hardest challenges of the day.

Life is about KICKING a.. and not KISSING IT!

Don't be upset by the results you didn't get from the work you didn't do.

I'm not even upset, angry or hurt anymore. I'm just tired of putting more effort than I receive. I'm tired of holding on for nothing. I'm tired of believing all of your lies. I'm tired of you proving me wrong every time. I'm tired of getting my hopes up and being disappointed again.

Those who cry that they can't fly in the sky, must just try to be what they want to be!

If I had been able to get out and speak to one of these girls we passed, I might well have been disillusioned by some flaw in her complexion that I had been unaware of from the carriage. (In that case, it would suddenly have felt impossible for me to make any effort to become part of her life. For beauty is a succession of hypotheses, and ugliness restricts these by blocking the way that seemed to be already leading us into the heart of the unknown.)

E eu continuava resistindo. E essa resistência me custava cada vez menos esforço, porque, por muito apego que se tenha ao veneno que nos está fazendo mal, quando por uma necessidade se passa algum tempo sem ingeri-lo, não é possível deixar de apreciar o descanso, que antes era coisa desconhecida, e a ausência de emoções e sofrimentos.

So rarely do we meet either with easy success or with irreversible defeat.

Il y a des jours montueux et malaisés qu'on met un temps infini à gravir et des jours en pente qui se laissent descendre à fond de train en chantant.

Although it is rightly said that there can be no progress, no discovery in art, but only in the sciences, and that each artist starting afresh on an individual effort cannot be either helped or hindered therein by the efforts of any other, it must none the less be acknowledged that, in so far as art brings to light certain laws, once an industry has popularized them, the art that was first in the field loses retrospectively a little of its originality.

I guess I'm just going to have to give it a try and find out.

People do not just use information that is easy to find; they even use information that they know to be of poor quality and less reliable, so long as it requires little effort to find, rather than using information they know to be of high quality and reliable, though harder to find.

There is most joy in virtue when 'tis hardest won.

Never act without purpose and resolve, or without the means to finish the job.

All our efforts must be directed towards an end, or we will act in vain. If it is not the right end, we will fail utterly.

The difference between a pebble and a mountain lies in whom you ask to move it.

People don't change that much. Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in. That is hard enough.

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.

In music, recording, writing, photography, design, film-making and any other creative endeavour, it may be true that anyone can do it, but it is not quite as true as punk sometimes seemed to suggest that anyone can do it in a way that is appreciated by others. The key point is that, without determination and application, talent and ideas are just unrealised potential. That lesson-there for anyone who wishes to learn it-is perhaps punk's , and the Clash's, greatest legacy.

You always have to strive

Nothing just happens. You always have to strive. - Marcus Luttrell