Quotes About Effort

always expect suffering, and just keep working hard

but dirt remained beneath her nails.

if someone really wants to see you, they always find a way. Always.

Maybe the point is that any marriage is work, but you may as well pick work that you like.

What's so wrong with effort, anyway? It means you care.

If I gave my mother a knitted scarf she'd be worried I was wasting my time doing stupid stuff like knitting instead of school work. Presenting a homemade knitted object to my parents was actually like handing them a detailed backlog of my idleness.

And the stairs. Oh, the stairs. The staircase in our third-floor walk-up was the steepest, hardest, metal-est staircase I have ever encountered in my life. It was a staircase for killing someone and making it seem like an accident.

Why is it that chatting with friends is energizing, but making small talk with acquaintances takes such monumental effort?

Entitlement is simply the belief that you deserve something. Which is great. The hard part is, you'd better make sure you deserve it. So, how did I make sure that I deserved it? To answer that, I would like to quote from the Twitter bio of one of my favorite people, Kevin Hart. It reads: My name is Kevin Hart and I WORK HARD!!! That pretty much sums me up!!! Everybody Wants To Be Famous But Nobody Wants To Do The Work!

I knew the truth, which is if someone really wants to see you, they always find a way. Always. That

The truth is, it's hard to get people to like you, but it's even harder to keep people liking you. You'd have to bring in Skittles every single day.

I guess I think happiness can come in a bunch of forms, and maybe a marriage with tons of work makes people feel happy. But part of me still thinks ... is it really so hard to make it work? What happened to being pals?

But none of that mattered, because I knew the truth, which is if someone really wants to see you, they always find a way. Always. That

The truth is, it's hard to get people to like you, but it's even harder to keep people liking you. You'd have to bring in Skittles every single day. The

Hard work is such a weird thing. As children and teenagers you are told it's a really good thing, but for adults it suddenly becomes the worst thing in the world.

I doubt I'll ever be knowledgeable enough to satisfy her or my curiosity about our faith, but I'm really going to try. As long as Kit and I are Kind of Hindu, we will never be alone.

A bunch of unearned trophies around the house would make me hooked on awards, which is bad in general, but especially bad if you don't deserve them. The whole experience made me want to win another trophy, but win it for actually doing something great.

The path is difficult to ensure worthiness. The lazy look elsewhere, The persevering find riches.

If you practiced for the day, then you have won. If you were lazy for the day, then you have lost.

God has a plan for all of us, but He expects us to do our share of the work.

En solitud, però no solitaris, reconduïm la vida amb la certesa que cap esforç no cau en terra eixorca. Dia vindrà que algú beurà a mans plenes l'aigua de llum que brolli de les pedres d'aquest temps nou que ara esculpim nosaltres.

I hurtled myself against it before realizing I had to press down the latch.

People love to make life harder than it has to be.

and together we pushed through paragraphs, painstakingly sounding out the words, knitting them into human sentences that said very little.