Quotes About Effort

We can take no credit for our gifts. It's what we do with them that matters.

It's been hard. Easier was the wrong word. There's nothing easy about freedom. You have to strive. You have to make a plan and stick to it.

Love isn't ownership. Love is partnership. It takes time,effort,and pain to be inlove

My mother's love for me was so great I have worked hard to justify it.

Love could be such a beautiful, long lasting thing if people actually put the effort into keeping it. When they don't, the love is lost.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Work is often the father of pleasure.

Practice makes perfect.....But nobody's perfect......so why practice?

You can't leave footprints in the sands of time if you're sitting on your butt. And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?

I am a big believer in the ''mirror test.'' All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.

If you can do more, you should!

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have

Every day I work so hard Bringin' home my hard earned pay Try to love you baby, but you push me away.

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

Love is hard work; and hard work sometimes hurts!

Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.

There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. [It is] when they are in love and reading a love letter.

Onion soup sustains. The process of making it is somewhat like the process of learning to love. It requires commitment, extraordinary effort, time, and will make you cry.

Love is the only industry which can't operate on a five-day week.

Many things--such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly--are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Love is a feeling, marriage is a contract, and relationships are work.