Quotes About Effort

Foolishness is giving up without any effort or not giving up after putting in all your effort. Secret of freedom is putting all your effort and giving up!

Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.

Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.

The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance.

Most people work all week to get to the weekend. A few work all weekend for years to get to freedom.

The hardest task needs the lightest hand or else its completion will not lead to freedom but to a tyranny much worse than the one it replaces.

Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.

To meditate with full effort, produces infinity, freedom.

Friendship is a full-time job.

Making it look easy is the hardest thing in the world to do.

Up! up! my friend, and quit your books, Or surely you 'll grow double! Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks! Why all this toil and trouble?

We had a lot of confidence that there was going to be a successful mission. We weren't off on some suicide effort, certainly [with Friendship 7].

For me, as far as friendship goes, I think you truly get out of it, what you put into it.

The nearest friends can go With anyone to death, comes so far short They might as well not try to go at all.

The company makes the feast.

Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple

Avocados, it's a food that ain't worth injuring yourself for. If it's a hassle to get into, leave it to the experts.

Well, when you're playing good football, it's good football and if you don't have good football, then you're not really playing good football.

You got one guy going boom, one guy going whack, and one guy not getting in the endzone.

There was a lot more to magic, as Harry quickly found out, than waving your wand and saying a few funny words.

I may not be able to pull on the smallest of holds, but those I can pull on I can pull on all day long.

I think I throw the ball as hard as anyone. The ball just doesn't get there as fast.

The fun you get from golf is in direct ratio to the effort you don't put into it.