Quotes About Effort

Happiness is a choice, you've got to work towards it

There is no shortcut to anyplace worth going.

they formed themselves into a chain and began the laborious job of passing the stores up the beach.

they were primarily pulling boats, designed for rowing, not sailing.

No choice remained but to hoist sail and try to claw their way offshore into the teeth of this fiendish gale.

It brought the total run since the beginning of the gale to 84 miles—in six days.

Shackleton made the decision on the spot: they would abandon the effort to reach Clarence or Elephant Island

There was only food for those who could pull their weight.

Ah, whyShould life all labor be?

The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in their relationship to larger truths, and who therefore assigned to them a prominence out of all proportion to their true importance.

I was brought up to believe that there is no such thing as failure as long as I'm trying my best. So I've had a 'blood, guts and glory' approach through my whole life.

And that most nice things are the result of hard work? The sweet from the bitter, you know.

But Ruth was the kind of a person who, in attempting a thing, did her very best to accomplish it.

His eyes went again to the crucifix above his head, reflected in the mirror. The strained arms, the arched spine. All that effort to open the gates of heaven for us and we (he thought) probably spend our first hours among the heavenly hosts settling old scores with relatives.

it's a pitiable likeness of clear running struggling to keep up with what's already gone

I am cold cold trying to slide myself out of my own shade but hour by hour more shade leaks out

6 a.m. scrabbling at the earth

As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.

I want to disrupt what's thought of as the default public radio voice. I want to challenge listeners as they ride the subway, jog on their treadmills, and drive on their commute. Even if the sounds and words we create might require greater concentration and attention, I believe our stories are worth the effort.

Why give up before we try?

There's work to do.

You can do anything if you get up and try.

Hey, Emma," Ben called. "Owen Zabriskie got a couple more hits last night. Did you watch the game?" "Most of it," Emma said. "When you're hot, you're hot," Spike said. Emma nodded. She wished she could get hot. Or even a little bit warm. She wondered if Owen Zabriskie had ever struck out eight times in a row.

It is not given to us to know what difference we can make, and perhaps we can make no difference at all. But that is no reason not to make the attempt," said Saliman quietly. "The Light shines more brightly in the darkness.