Quotes About Effort

You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.

I don't know what it takes to make marriage work, but I'm going to keep trying until I get it right. I haven't given up on love or marriage.

When you're married you try harder

A marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit

Marriages may be made in heaven, but man is responsible for the maintenance work

My only purpose is to live a happy life and if I can't fulfill that purpose then my effort, courage and ambition isn't enough.

Discovering and fulfilling your life purpose is a collaborative effort of everything that you are made of.

The best things in life make you sweaty.

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.

Watching him with one eye, she wondered if men ever figured out that they were more appealing when they were pursuing their own work than when they were pursuing a woman.

You know, I've always thought it was a tactical mistake for God to love us in the aggregate, when Satan is willing to make a special effort to seduce each of us separately.

He who has done his best for his own time, has lived for all times. (Igbo proverb)

Sometimes there's not a better way. Sometimes there's only the hard way.

No matter how much they want it, or how much I want it, I can't make it happen. The feeling of failure is familiar. I always tried so hard to be everything they wanted

It's just supposed to come, isn't it?" "Did your reading just come to you? Or did you have to devote effort to it? The seed of the gift may come, but a seedling that isn't nourished dies quickly.

I looked at her, unsure how to answer. Even after everything Mikael had done, every day I had to let go again. He was a habit in my thoughts, not any more welcome than a rash, but I'd find myself thinking of him before I even realized what I was doing. Banishing him from my thoughts was like learning to breathe in a new way. It was a conscious effort.

Anything good in his life he had fought and scratched for, and his joy came from a deep place of understanding the lack of it.

Not what you do but how you do it, is the test of your capacity.

There are hardly any exceptions to the rule that a person must pay dearly for the divine gift of the creative fire.

Because you loved, you promised. You must try harder to keep that promise.

The most we can ever do is our best," she said quietly. "If worry is interest paid on troubles we haven't had yet, guilt is pain wasted on what can't be changed." "Please remind me of that regularly. I need to hear it.

I was taught to put my best into anything I did and I can honestly say Ive always done that. Still, there are many times when I failed, when I was disappointed.

No te rindas nunca, porque nunca sabes si el próximo intento será el que funcionará

A father had to work only half as hard as any mother to be considered twice as good.