Quotes About Effort

Very few people discover their talent while snoring in a hammock. The harder you work and the more you demand of yourself, the more talent and ability you will discover. Hard work reveals talent.

His grandfather had often told him that he tried too hard to move trees when a wiser man would walk around them.

Trying is always enough.

Zee said, grumpily, "Liebling, this is not a good idea." "Zee," I told him, "I am completely out of good ideas and am doing my best with the bad ones I have left.

Baking is like washing--the results are equally temporary.

Ben rubbed his muzzle over Kyle's shoulder in a way that I think was supposed to be reassuring. Kyle sucked in a breath. Either it hurt, or the reminder that the werewolf was big enough to rub his shoulder without much effort wasn't exactly reassuring. "Ben, when was the last time you brushed your teeth?" asked Kyle. Or else Ben's breath was really bad.

My French friend tells me that someday, if I work at it, I may no longer be flattering myself when I say I can speak a very little French.

How goes the battle?

He does not require that we live a perfect life. He only requires that we try to live as He wills. The only way to fail Him is by giving up.

But by the time you've worked long enough, hard enough, Real Life (which insists on being capitalized as if it were a personage with a proper name and a right to barge into this rental unit called your life) begins to reveal itself as something other than effort, other than accomplishment. Real Life wishes to be left to its own purposeless devices.

Trying to remember, I have learned, is like trying to clutch a handful of fog. Trying to forget, like trying to hold back the monsoon.

Didn't say it was easy. Said it was simple. Some of the simplest things aren't easy at all.

Perfect is close enough.

Your skill can never buy you love. It may win you admiration and envy, but never love. If that was what you were after, you have wasted your time.

It is hard work to win back love. But don't give up. Those who persevere find more happiness in earning love than they do in gaining it.

Trying to fuck you is like trying to French kiss a very small and lively gerbil. With braces.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Sorry Mr. Yipes, sir, she won't budge!' Put your back into it, man, give it all you've got!' Bang! Bang! Bang!

Those who run fast in life will be given an extra load to carry so that they may keep up with those that are walking through life.

Don't force things, but this doesn't mean that you can't make a real effort.

Motivation follows action, yet most of us are seeking motivation that creates action.

Victory in war is made up of simple things. But in war, even the simplest things are hard.

It was so much easier to be loved than to have to do any of the desperate work of loving.

Knowing the future is part of that future's past. Perhaps the foreseen happens because we try to change it.

You're helpless to the behaviour but the effort involved is just unbelievable.