Quotes About Effort

What do you say I come over tonight? We can take a walk, look for big cats, watch the stars come out…" I laughed. "Do lines like that ever work?" He only smiled. "Can't blame a guy for trying.

He was no genius, but he showed up and did the work, and most times that was all it took to succeed at anything in life.

Still, hard work never killed anyone, right? By midday, I decide that whoever coined that phrase never toiled as a nineteenth-century housemaid.

A jerk on my harness made me look up sharply as Daniel adjusted the rope, preparing to let me belay down. The look on his face told me who'd won. "Damn," I said. "Seriously?" "By a fingertip," Rafe said. "You need to grow longer arms.

If your creation is taking 99% perspiration, it stinks and you need more inspiration.

Not that, when you come down to it, we do a hell of a lot of shining. At best we give off just enough light to hold away the dark for an hour or two. That's all the fire Prometheus had to give us.

Imaginary houses are sexy. Real ones are work.

Hard work should be rewarded by good food.

Monika answered for her father. Giving Walter a conspiratorial grin, she said: "Daddy used to say that if the tsar had been born to a different station in life, he might, with an effort, have become a competent postman.

y cuando pasó volando por la quinta planta, agitando los brazos en vano

Philip had always believed that hard work should be rewarded by good food.

Sabe que no es posible hacerlo todo, que hay que elegir las batallas que pueden ganarse.

I don't believe that. You're intelligent, but lazy.

preocupante posibilidad de que ese día no consiguiera

ascetically, his only earthly pleasure being to score points in

Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing that you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically

His whole body shakes with the strain as he tries to lift something he knows he can't lift, something everybody knows he can't lift. But, for just a second, when we hear the cement grind at our feet, we think, by golly, he might do it.

But at least I tried

But I tried though, he says. Goddammit, I sure as hell did that much, now, didn't I?

Okay, stand outa the way. Sometimes when I go to exertin' myself I use up all the air nearby and grown men faint from suffocation.

He had come to life for maybe a minute to try to tell us something, something none of us cared to listen to or tried to understand, and the effort had drained him dry.

But I tried, though," he says. "Goddammit, I sure as hell did that much, now, didn't I?

Azzal együtt megpróbáltam – mondja. – Annyi azért kitellett tÅ'lem, a büdös istenit, hogy megpróbáltam, nem igaz?

He had come to life for maybe a minute to try to tell us something, something none of us cared to listen or understand, and the effort had drained him dry.