Quotes About Effort

The discipline of joy requires holding in the mind simultaneously that this too shall pass and that this too is good. This alchemy of mind isn't easy, but the good life is not always the easy life. Happiness requires effort. It is not just bestowed; it is the earned interest on what you choose to pay in.

Look, he even tried getting at the rope." Carl studied the scene. "With all the rodents

We are not created equal in talent. But the place where we are least equal is the heart. You can work at a talent, take lessons, but love, love either works or it doesn't. You love someone or you don't. You can't change it. You can't undo it.

Sometimes it would be nice not to have to do my best. Sometimes it would just be nice not to have a crisis to deal with. - Anita Blake

I'll do my bit tonight, but forgive me if it's a little harder to keep going than normal. Forgive me if I'm not superwoman after all. Not superwoman? he exclaimed, putting a hand on his chest in mock surprise. You've lied to me all these years!

It all adds up; never discount your efforts, because small efforts build big things. One word doesn't make a novel, but one word does begin a novel, and from that small beginning everything else follows. Even if it's just 'The', write something on that blank page.

It is not where you begin, or what gifts you begin with, but what you do with them that matters in the end.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Happiness isn't a gift you can give. It's a task you work on together.

The only people don't suffer those are the ones who never do anything

I was good at digging holes. It was the rest of life I sucked at.

Superheroes work the hardest when things get tough.

tried to reach the cake plate. My fingers fell just short. If I stretched all the way across the table, the seam under my arm would split open. Jeannine saw my dilemma, picked up the plate, and passed it in the opposite direction to her mother.

OUR FREEDOM DEPENDS ON THE EXERTIONS OF A FEW PATRIOTIC INDIVIDUALS. IT IS WITH GRIEF THAT WE LEARN THAT THE CONGRESS IS MADE UP OF SO FEW OF THEM. —DIARY OF CHRISTOPHER MARSHALL, PHILADELPHIA PHARMACIST

To be the best, you have to give everything all the time, then you have to give some more...

so when they are running from uphill, it makes a tremendous amount of noise. That is very bothersome, especially if they have big feet.

You translate it, please. I have worked hard to forget what Greek I once knew.

And this almost tautological business of having done one's best can't be reserved exclusively for parents.

if you intend to try and work, not to sit under the Tree of Idleness.

You get lazy, you get sad. Start givin' up. Plain and simple.

One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that people will never know about. (from 'Celestial Navigation')

They're not willing to admit that I've also shed blood and tears and often paid dearly for my success. This makes me feel extremely sad.

No one wants to fail. So most of us don't even try. Sad. We don't even take that first step to improve our health or to deepen our working relationships or to realize a dream.

Research cannot be forced very much. There is always danger of too much foliage and too little fruit.