Quotes About Effort

persons who go through a great deal of trouble or pain to attain something tend to value it more highly than persons who attain the same thing with a minimum of effort.

There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.

The researchers thought that recipients of precise offers are much more likely to believe that the person making that offer has invested time and effort preparing for the negotiation and therefore has very good reasons to support the precise offer they are making.

as Sir Joshua Reynolds noted, "There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.

There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking." With

You do the best you can and you deal with the consequences. It's all there is.

The simultaneous rise of both the working poor and non-working rich offers further evidence that earnings no longer correlate with effort.

Great ends demand great means.

If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort.

You always think you could have done more. That's why you need a friend — to tell you you did all you could.

To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it.

Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do — send for reinforcements?

When it seems that something can't be done, start it, and see if the rest of it can be done.

The trick to getting ahead is to give it the same effort you give to getting even.

It is not only possible to be the person you pretend to be, but there is less effort involved.

You will find that if you really try to be a father, your child will meet you halfway.

The greater the success, the closer it verges on failure.

Inscribe all human effort with one word, Artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

But little do or can the best of us:That little is achieved through Liberty.

Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?

In this world, who can do a thing, will not; And who would do it, cannot, I perceive: Yet the will's somewhat — somewhat, too, the power — And thus we half-men struggle.

Now a' is done that men can do,And a' is done in vain.

[Ambitious men] may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel in a chain, so Budaeus compares them; they climb and climb still, with much labour, but never make an end, never at the top.