Quotes About Effort

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

Swing hard in case you hit it.

Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and it annoys the pig.

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than everybody else -- but persistent.

The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whiskey. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.

I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi ' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.

I think I hate it here because there is no love here anymore. I regret the effort I desperately made here.

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. Intelligence is not trying.

These people who can see right through you never quite do you justice, because they never give you credit for the effort you're making to be better than you actually are, which is difficult and well meant and deserving of some little notice.

The hardest thing is to do something which is close to nothing because it is demanding all of you.

If we go for the easy way, then we never change.

You gave up because everything stopped being easy. Just because you couldn't conquer this thing like you always did.

Siempre es más fácil destruir que construir. Mete más ruido en el bosque un árbol que cae que cien que están creciendo "; pag 25.

haciendo un esfuerzo

En el envidioso existe una voluntad, una actitud de esfuerzo o, en el peor de los casos, de capricho, que indirectamente lo hace culto, laborioso, incansable. La envidia es el único vicio que se alimenta de virtudes, que vive gracias a ellas.

Creo que todos, los que estamos aquí y los que están en tantas otras partes, vivimos un desajuste. Unos más, otros menos, hacemos el esfuerzo por organizarnos, por empezar de nuevo, por poner un poco de orden en nuestros sentimientos, en nuestras relaciones, en nuestras nostalgias. Pero no bien nos descuidamos, reaparece el caos. Y cada recaída en el caos (perdoná la redundancia) es más caótica.

But you're wrong. Happiness is EARNED, like everything else. It's achieved.

I am not necessarily a balanced person by nature, but I try. When I think a bad thought, I try to balance it out with a happy one. It doesn't work all the time, but if I do say so myself, over the years, I've gotten good at it.

Good intentions, talented players, everyone trying hard. Just bad casting.

We each do the best we can. My best may not be as good as your best, but it's my best. The fact is we know when we are doing our best and when we are not. If we are not doing our best, it leaves us with a gnawing hunger and frustration. But when we do our best, we experience a peace.

As it was, she faltered a little, and we loved her the more. That experience has given me great comfort. I figure that if I fall a little short of what is expected of me, perhaps my sisters in the gospel will be compassionate and love me more for trying.

As Edison is credited with saying, "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." We all want to be successful, but most of us aren't willing to do what those who are successful did to attain it. We want success without sacrifice, but you can't have one without the other!