Quotes About Effort

This however, wasn't an ideal world, and no matter how hard I tried to think of an answer, I had nothing.

We can't change things by wishing. Only by doing. It's our actions, Tara, not our thoughts.

We can't change things by wishing. Only by doing.

Ain't no point worrying about what's been or what's gonna be. You just gotta do your best right now. And trust everyone else is doing the same.

Ain't no point worrying about what's been or what's gonna be. You just gotta do your best right now. And trust everyone else is doing the same.

There's an art in every labour.

Whenever he had spoilt a piece of work he always set himself below the meanest labourer who had at least brawn enough to do his job. (53)

I want to depict the artist's struggle with reality, the sheer effort of creation which goes into every work of art, the blood and tears involved in giving of one's flesh, in trying to make something that lives...the endless the defeats, the struggle with the angel.' (ix)

He caressed them, did them violence even, and shed tears of despair over his failures to make them either sufficiently beautiful or sufficiently alive. (42)

And what great thing have you done? asked the peasant. We? Oh, nothing. Then to the oven! he replied. The

Because even one small island of success in a river of failure is worth whatever we have to do to achieve it.

But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm's length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I'll rest.

If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.

I have a good many books on hand, but I am sorry to say that as usual I make small progress with any.

The young man evidently thought it too bad that he should be laughed at for his ignorance, and then laughed at for trying to remove it. 

Try for yourself, if that be your spirit. I have done, and yield the argument to your saucy insolence.

Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.

I work to drive the awe away, yet awe impels the work.

Success is counted sweetest by those ne'er succeed.

Look back on Time, with kindly eyes - He doubtless did his best - How softly sinks that trembling sun In Human Nature's West -

Look back on time with kindly eyes, He doubtless did his best; How softly sinks his trembling sun In human nature's west!

An ill heart, like a body, has its more comfortable days, and then its days of pain, its long relapse, when rallying requires more effort than to dissolve life, and death looks choiceless.

To subdue the bumble-bee!

The thought behind I strove to join Unto the thought before, But sequence ravelled out of reach