Quotes About Effort

I have three goddaughters - I'm not sure why they trust me, because I have no experience with children - but I try.

You'll never have any mental muscle if you don't have any heavy stuff to pick up.

Se io studiassi di più l'italiano, lo parlerei meglio.

many diverse people of intelligence and refinement, outside Italy no less than within Italy, devote much effort and study to learning and speaking our language for no reason but love." These acolytes included Elizabeth I of England, Francis I of France, and Emperor Charles V, who once declared, "I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse." John

It's not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We've gotta cast the net broader than that. But I think it's a - very special tribute that we all owe to the bravery and courage of the men and women in the intelligence and military business who performed so well to finally get it done.

Spiritual work is taxing work, and men are loath to do it. Praying, true praying, costs an outlay of serious attention and of time, which flesh and blood do not relish.

A winner is someone who can look in the mirror at the end of the day and say in pursuit of my goal and dreams I gave my best.

Those sentimental radio hits, with their artificial naivete and empty crudities, are the pitiful remains and the maximum that people will tolerate by way of mental effort; it's a ghastly desolation and impoverishmment. By contrast, we can be very glad when something affects us deeply, and regard the accompanying pains as an enrichment.

Jesus cares more about our effort than our accomplishments.

I prefer trying over talking.

We cannot do everything, but we can all do something.

But why was the room suddenly becoming so dark? It was the middle of the afternoon. With a supreme effort Giuseppe Corte, who felt himself paralyzed with a strange lethargy, looked at the clock on the nightstand beside the bed. It was 3:30. He turned his head in the other direction and saw that the shutters, in obedience to some mysterious command, were closing slowly, blocking the passage of light.

unless men work at occultism as they work for the prizes of their professions they will not achieve.

It might take just as much effort to fit in as it does to stand out, because you're standing up for yourself. It's those who take a risk and take chances who achieve greatness. Those who play it safe never can.

Even the contemplative life is only an effort, Nora my dear, to hide the body so the feet won't stick out.

Work, look for peace and calm in work; you will find it nowhere else.

It takes a lot of time and money to look this cheap, honey,

Is it easy? She sang to herself. No it ain't can I fix it? No I can't

Hell's Kitchen.

But I had to work ten times as hard to get half the attention.

Big Things Happen When You Do the Little Things Right

All my life I had thought that if you worked hard you would be rewarded. If you worked your ass off, there would be some reward for you. But now I knew that the reward was just the chance to work your ass off.

You're not going to be able to save her, you know. If you keep trying, she'll break your heart.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?