Quotes About Effort

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.

All my life I have struggled to make one authentic gesture.

Life is like walking through snow: every step shows.

All that running and getting nowhere, he thought. Story of my life.

In this world, you only get what you grab for.

An easy life is rarely meaningful and a meaningful life rarely easy.

If you choose to do something, do it with your utmost. And remember, expect nothing and life will be velvet.

A life without fighting is a dead sea in the universal organism.

The greatest failure in life is to stop trying.

The greatest failure is the failure to try.

In bowling and in life, if a person made the spares, the strikes would take care of themselves.

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.

The people accusing me of being productive don't know how hard it is for me to just bend my elbow sometimes.

If something is worth doing you may as well go heart and soul and boot leather.

If life has taught me one thing, it's that there are no villains. Only people, doing their best.

There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it.

All my life I have been intensely repelled by the idea of 'making an effort'. I hate this idea today as much as I did as a child. I don't know why I hate it so much; I just do.

Labor is life; thought is light.

Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.

Ah, why should life all labor be?

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.

Your rewards in life will be determined by what you do, how well you do it, and the difficulty of replacing you.

There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.