Quotes About Effort

I've seen your father bury many a man, but I never saw him take this kind of pains." Newt

Nothing good ever comes without a price.

travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. - Robert Louis Stevenson

It isn't the day you finally push the boulder up the hill and it stays. (Then what would you do?)

Now no sign, no scorch or char, marks the place where George built the fire. Remarkable, earth's strength to restore itself and erase human effort. But memory, stronger still, can send flames as high as the roof, and shift the wind and choke George and sting his eyes with smoke...

When you're willing to do the work, it's amazing what can be saved.

That is love, baby girl. Working hard when we don't feel like it.

You did the work that was needed, wherever that work took you.

My grandfather used to say that most people don't want to hear the thing that will make it work better," I said. "They want to hear what will make it easier.

You have to grow about 800 grapes to get just one bottle of wine. If that isn't an argument to finish the bottle, I don't know what is.

My grandfather used to say that most people don't want to hear the thing that will make it work better," I said. "They want to hear what will make it easier." "And what did he say to do about that?" "Find other people. You know, for starters.

most people don't want to hear the thing that will make it work better," I said. "They want to hear what will make it easier.

Sometimes your passion takes work and you shouldn't give up on it just because it isn't easy…

When you're willing to do the work, it's amazing what can be saved.

Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to stay in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that! —LEWIS CARROLL

Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to stay in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!

It's amazing . . ." he said. "When you're willing to do the work, it's amazing what can be saved.

There were certain things that you hit from different angles, but you never gave up on. You did the work that was needed, wherever that work took you.

Life had taught her that it was not that easy; there are few prepared to fulfill their desires whatever the cost, and the right to determine the course of one's own life would take more effort than she had imagined. That battle she had to fight alone, and it weighed on her.

It's work, son, Father said. That's what money is; it's hard work.

Maybe everything comes out all right, if you keep on trying. Anyway, you have to keep on trying; nothing will come out right if you don't.

Just because you worked hard on something didn't make it worth doing.

I've never understood why people choose to do the things that are hardest for them.

Successful people know that small things done repeatedly have great power.