Quotes About Effort

Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.

Uma tentativa infeliz vale mais do que a ausência de tentaiva

Not only is that all we can do; it's what we have to keep doing, no matter how many of those meals end up in the garbage can.

As a rule, the point of homework generally isn't to learn, much less to derive real pleasure from learning. It's something to be finished. And until it is, it looms large in conversations, an unwelcome guest at the table every night.

you're so busy trying to deal with the implications of failing that you don't have the time and energy to do what it takes to succeed.

All your decent work is slavery, didn't you say so yourself, that's what decent work is. Yep, and that's what I found out.

All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.

Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income.

Under President Obama, we have spent more money - he has spent more money than any other president in this history, actually, the combined total from Washington up to George W. Bush. President Obama has racked up more spending, $1 trillion deficits. And it's time that he join us in this effort to get our fiscal house in order.

Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on the other.

We need to strengthen our analytic capacity in Washington, we need to centralize the anti-terrorism effort.

You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere.

Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.

I cannot afford to waste any chance that comes my way.

It makes you also realize, 'OK, I'm excited to play tennis, and I work really hard to be the best tennis player I think I can be,' but I don't waste my time on stupid stuff, you know what I mean.

I feel anything done half heartedly is a waste.

I was always brought up that if you can make a difference, you should, and if you don't it's a waste. So we'll see if I can make a difference.

Sometimes, you have to be frustrated and do something unscalable and a waste of your time to be inspired.

As to the number of novels I've abandoned... I shudder to think. I have thrown away five completed novels, and that's a gruesome enough figure. But not necessarily a waste of effort.

I don't get all that tan outdoors because I am so fair, and my color goes away so fast. It really is a waste for me to try and get suntan because it's more work than it's worth.

Shame on me if I don't try to do more with what I have. It would be... a terrible thing to waste this opportunity to try to make a difference.

I don't want to waste my life by being lazy.

As a tennis player, or any professional athlete, our career has a shelf life. I don't want to waste any opportunities, I don't want to look back on it when I'm 45 and think I could have done a lot more.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.