Quotes About Effort

On peut s'arrêter quand on monte, jamais quand on descend.

Occupation is the scythe of time.

Education comes from within you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way.

Do not wait: the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

Winning isnt everything, but losing is nothing.

Practice is the effort that makes winning possible

Winning isnt everything, but losin is nothing.

It's pretty nice to be talented. If you are, enjoy, but it won't take you that far. Work takes you a lot further.

I think talent is like a water table under the earth—you tap it with your effort and it comes through you.

When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.

I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.

It's always easier to be a critic than a creator.

For some people, the pain and effort of exercise makes it difficult. But others live off of getting that second wind and the improvements to their body, and so they use that to push through the pain.

Americans have dissipated their racial energy in an orgy of stone-breaking. In their few years they have broken more stones than did centuries of Egyptians, and they have done their work hysterically, desperately, almost as if they knew that the stones would some day break them.

All order is doomed, yet the battle is worth while.

We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.

To do nothing is the way to be nothing.

No. Never. I have to try my best or I'll become worse and worse. Even if I can't make up with them. Even if they all ignore me. I still have to try my best.

If only it was effortless to understand you because if it wasn't so. . .there wouldn't be any point to be by your side... —kakeru manabe

People aren't born social. Sure it comes easier to some people but most people, like you, need to work at it. Some more than others. You're just inexperienced.

You flounder through life, struggling desperately so you won't drown, even though you would float if you'd just relax.