Quotes About Effort

The height of the mountaintop is measured by the drab drudgery of the valley.

Is a couple of hairs above my lip really worthy of this much effort?" I asked. "Yes," they both replied at once.

I'm lazy and lying requires too much effort.

them do their best. Before

And the key to locking in lasting participation down the line, he says, is to emphasize chores as a group effort by using the word "we"—"We need to get this done" or "Let's clean up the living room.

To attain individual morality in an age demanding social morality, to pride one's self on the results of personal effort when the time demands social adjustment, is utterly to fail to apprehend the situation.

I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.

The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labor.

And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it's just been so worth the effort. It's like I'm planting a garden in my head.

Gift, like genius, I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains.

No Pain No Gain

I whisper, losing myself in my native language as I sing her praises. Her beauty and innocence slay me, and my voice is hoarse with the effort of holding back. "Ty takaya krasivaya. Takoy nevinnyy," I murmur. You're so beautiful. So innocent

But the best things in life never come easy—

You ride horse of good intent," Naomi said. "It does not arrive at destination.

Give my effort to the present, let God handle the future.

In the immortal words of Willie Stargell, trying to hit Koufax was like "trying to drink coffee with a fork.

Encouragement celebrates effort and improvement, not just success, and builds a long-term sense of self-worth and confidence.

How might you feel if everything you tried was a little beyond your ability to succeed—and you were criticized for the efforts you made?

For someone so very good at math, it's stunning to discover how you struggle with single digits.

I make lots of mistakes. I try hard not to make the same mistake more than three or four times.

I'm telling you, it's fu**ing hard to be classy

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

so who's more adult- somebody who works like mad to avoid a problem or somebody who works like mad to solve it?

As you no doubt gathered, I do not devote the care to word selection and organization in my letters that I do in my books Generally, I don't write letters at all...Writing, for me, is work, and I do not like to do my work carelessly, but if I waited until I got a letter into the shape I'd be happy with, you would never hear another word from me and would think I had perished on a mountain...