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Quotes About Effort

These guys are tough, this world is crazy and the wind here is crazy strong! However if I want a normal life for once I have to try harder! Angel - From Revenge of the Gloobas. Coming soon!
~ Angel Ramon Medina
In order to be a better writer, one must always write.
~ Safa Shaqsy, The Finite
Anyone can get their hands on a fortune but to become successful one must work intelligent and hard."- EMW
~ Erik Martin Willén, Pirates
I have always consoled myself that he such as I who is not a genius, can still achieve much that is useful when he does his work right and chooses his work to suit his talents.
~ Johann Rudolf Wolf
I was not talented enough to run and smile at the same time
~ Emil Zatopek
No matter what you do, no matter how hard it is, no matter how challenging it isdo it with a smile on your face.
~ Lenny Krayzelburg
A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
~ Emily Dickinson
When you have done your best with what you know how to do best - and people everywhere look at you with a friendly smile.
~ Maurice Chevalier
Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.
~ Alexander Pope
I do the extra... When you do the extra you should never doubt yourself... every fight I have a smile on my face because I know I've done it all.
~ Jon Jones
Happiness is found principally in meditation. Let your mind flow out into eternity. You have to exert some effort. Then you will notice a subtle smile on your face.
~ Frederick Lenz
The skin of her face, parched by the monotonous dietof salty rain, with tremendous effortgave wayto a smile.
~ Anna Jae
Today's society wants to skip the process. And I hate that
~ Tom Izzo
No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to.
~ Basil W. Maturin
If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
~ zola emile ii
He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires greater stock of religious merit than he would gain by the repetition of 10,000 prayers. Zen Zoroaster
~ Zoroaster
Winning wasn't natural for me. It had to be fought for, in the echoes and trodden footprints of my mind.
~ zusak markus ii
Sólo la mitad de la acción es obra nuestra: el principio y el final, la causa y el efecto, pertenecen a los dioses.
~ zweig stefan
a matter of fact, Havel had but three weapons to use in his effort to change history: hope, courage and stubbornness – weapons which all of us possess in one measure or another. The sole difference between Václav Havel and the rest of us is that we, unlike Havel, seldom reach for those weapons; and when (if) we do, we do it with much less – weaker and shorter-lived – determination.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
Lay off her Ben, yelled Jake. Cally registered that he was defending her. "She's doing her best!" "Her best? That'll look good on our tombstones. RIP Bond Team—Cally did her best!
~ A.J. Butcher
No verse of Scripture yields its meaning to lazy people.
~ A.W. Pink
Labor is a blessing, toil is the misery of man.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
It is useless endeavor to fight the ego in the open; like a wounded hydra, it produces two heads for every one cut off. We must not indulge in self-scrutinization; we must not concentrate upon the problem of egocentricity. The way to purify the self is to avoid dwelling upon the self and to concentrate upon the task.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel