Quotes About Effort

One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.

Life is a do-it-yourself project

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

we have to give are best or die

The master-word is Work, a little one, as I have said, but fraught with momentous sequences if you can but write it on the tablets of your hearts, and bind it upon your foreheads.

his oar into water that is as thick and angry as boiling paddy.

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

It's a long way to the top, If you wanna rock n' roll

Like working out, the first rule of success was just showing up.

I want to try and be terrific. Even for an hour.

Achieving accomplishments without first making a sacrifice to gain them does not make you accomplished. That just makes you a lucky bastard.

If you wanted to be original the most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.

In a perfect world you will definitely be in a need to opt for a minimal effort and enhanced portfolio, which you can do by just getting the things done by you about what you have shared and assets which are being exchanged as assets.

he'd use both hands to try to pry my thumb

This is the thing I have discovered: Michael's being gone doesn't mean we stop trying to save him. The strain is less but it doesn't vanish. It becomes part of our bewilderment, a kind of activity without motive, which provides its own strange continuity.

Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.

The problem with enemyfying is not that we never have enemies: we often face people and situations that present us with difficulties and dangers. Moreover, any effort we make to effect change in the world will create discomfort, resistance, and opposition. The real problem with enemyfying is that it distracts and unbalances us. We cannot avoid others whom we find challenging, so we need to focus simply on deciding, given these challenges, what we ourselves will do next.

Easy as a child breathes a wish at a dandelion...is exactly how hard it would be for me to tear your limbs from their sockets.

The Boov frowned. 'Everybodies always is wanting to make a clone for to doing their work. If you are not wanting to do your work, why would a clone of you want to do your work?

The uniform, constant, and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition... is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration.

Problems worthy of attacks, prove their worth by hitting back

The path of a single man can be difficult but the results of what he does can be great.

You'll never go wrong if you describe what you think the child might be feeling ('You must be so proud of yourself!') or what the child has accomplished ('A lot of practice and perseverance went into winning that medal').

The teacher said we're only supposed to spend fifteen minutes a night on our math. It took me a whole hour to finish. I must be dumb. PARENT: It can be discouraging when work takes longer than you expect.