Quotes About Effort

what ever you do do your best

There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.

Every time he lost to his dad, it just made him want to work harder, so he could beat him the next time, or the time after that—or at least someday.

He looked at her. 'In order to finish, I'll have to have defeated six Infected, Dusk, and Vengeous himself.' Yeah. So?' The Infected I can manage.' She frowned. 'And Vengeous? I mean, you can beat him, right?' Well,' he said, "I can certainly try. And trying is half the battle.' What's the other half?' He shrugged. 'Hitting him more times than he hits me.

Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first.

Punishment is not the answer. Punishment is easy. It's lazy. Redemption is hard. Redemption makes you work." -Skulduggery

There's no such thing as winning or losing. There is won and there is lost ; there is victory and defeat . There are absolutes. Everything in between is still leftt to fight for.

You have an amazing ability to depress me sometimes, you know that?" "I try my best.

sipping from a protein shake that had aspirations of being a milkshake, but couldn't quite make it.

Punishment is not the answer. Punishment is easy. It's lazy. Redemption is hard. Redemption makes you work.

Knowledge without mileage equals bullshit.

Without execution, thinking is mere idleness.

We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it: toil is the law.

Knowledge is power, especially when it is hitched to a workhorse.

It looks like the thing that separates out the capable students from the really successful ones is not so much their knowledge...but their persistence at something.

Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost.

Knowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it.

Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.

For knowledge is not given as gift...but through study...The free mind, not afraid of labor, presses on to attain the good.

Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own.

Put up the dream. Put in the knowledge. Put out the effort.

He that in ye mine of knowledge deepest diggeth, hath, like every other miner, ye least breathing time, and must sometimes at least come to terr. alt. for air.