Quotes About Effort

You are now aware that your lower jaw has weight, and that it requires effort for you to hold it up. Good evening.

You say you're not a hero? Well, I'm going to tell you the best and the worst thing you've ever heard. Heroes aren't born. You just go out there and grind it out. You fail and you look foolish and you just keep grinding.

Praise can be hard to come by and fleeting when you do get it but no one can take away pride from, and engagement in, hard work.

Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.

Do your work not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishings sake--that little more which is worth all the rest.

Do your work. Not just your work, do a little more, but that little is worth more than all the rest. And if you suffer, as you must, and if you doubt, as you must, do your work. Put your heart into it, and the sky will clear. Then out of your doubt and suffering will be born the supreme joy of life.

The human race. No winners, just slower losers.

If artists put more effort into being ignored, they'd get more attention

Any goal worth achieving involves an element of risk.

If it comes easy, if it doesn't require extraordinary effort, you're not pushing hard enough: It's supposed to hurt like hell.

Life is at its most extraordinary during the struggle, not during times of idle contentment

The best things in life make you sweaty. —Anonymous

Play hard. Play smart. Play together.

Will it ever be perfect?" I wondered. "No," he told me with a smile. "Nothing in life is. But, my dear mademoiselle, life is not about achievement. It is about the effort. If one takes pleasure in every step, one enjoys the whole journey.

life is not about achievement. It is about the effort. If one takes pleasure in every step, one enjoys the whole journey.

I don't choose what I do based on how easy it is.

I felt a constant, low-flying desperation, the kind you feel when you are trying, trying, trying to get something you will never, ever get.

I don't know why we do it. But sometimes we just swim straight for the net.

We try to hold a storm in our own fist but we are not that strong.

There. But then I change my mind. I think of us poor, old human beings doing the best we can, struggling with being either too much of who we are or too little.

The elevator to success broke a long time ago, the problem is too many people are too lazy to take the stairs.

As the sun shines I will make hayTo keep failure at bayFor there remaineth a payFor my honest toil each day.

Knowledge is half the battle. The application of knowledge is the other half. (1998)

Don't just hit a home run. Knock it out of the park.