Quotes About Effort

It is the work that matters, not the applause that follows.

Great God! this is an awful place and terrible enough for us to have laboured to it without the reward of priority.

In my experience, nothing worthwhile has ever really been all that easy. But it certainly has been worthwhile regardless how difficult it seemed.

It has been often said that writing is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration. In my experience, this is true. But, in my opinion, it is useless without that 1 percent. It's like an engine without fuel -- can't get anywhere without it. Or like a lighthouse without a light on top -- doesn't guide anyone in to home or safe harbor.

You got to where you are in your life right now by moving along the path of least resistance.

The nearest friends can goWith anyone to death, comes so far shortThey might as well not try to go at all.

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.

Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers: It is the only prayer that deserves an answer—good, honest, noble work.

and in spite of everything he was going through, she too was tired, she too had personal worries, and would have appreciated just a little effort.

Do the job and do it well.

Tylko ?e ju? próbowali, a potem znowu, znowu i znowu. Po jakim? czasie pierwsza pot??na fala wzajemnej t?sknoty cofa?a si? i zawsze ods?ania?a paskudny wrak przesz?o?ci, którego mroczny cie? k?ad? si? na wszystkim, co usi?owali odbudowa?.

quid and a bit of an effort … Out of his subconscious rose the names Mazankov and Krupov, and it was a second or two before he remembered

Sometime, Mrs. Truitt, we work very hard at something, we exhaust ourselves to accomplish something which seems vital to us." He chose his words with care. "Our best hope for happiness. And sometimes we find that thing, only to find it has simply not been worth the effort.

Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.

Despise The Free Lunch

Intimacy is to love what concentration is to work: a simultaneous drawing together of attention and release of energy.

This "filtering down" is not a mechanical process in which ideas of intellectuals just happen to come to the attention of the general public. It is instead a conscious effort on the part of intellectuals to alter Americans' perceptions of the world and of themselves, an effort, among other things, to weaken or destroy Americans' attachment to their country and to Western civilization.

Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy

A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.

There are people who buy pictures because they were difficult to do, and are done. Such pictures are often only a record of pain and dull perseverance. Great works of art should look as though they were made in joy. Real joy is a tremendous activity, dull drudgery is nothing to it.

Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt;Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.

No pains. No gains

If little labour, little are our gains; Man's fortunes are according to his pains.