Quotes About Effort

and when she (went back1) to the table2 for it, she found she could5 (not possibly3) reach4 it: Sie ging1a zum Tisch2 zurück1b, um es zu holen, sah aber, daß sie es unmöglich3 erreichen4 konnte5

By the time she had caught the flamingo and brought it back, the fight was over

When you're older," said the Professor, "you'll know that you can't put Mountains together again so easily!

It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that! - alice and wonderland

It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that.

Since Life is but a dream, Why toil to no avail?

I should rather take my chances with the lions of Rome's ancient Colosseum than endure another tea chat with the likes of them. At least the lions are honest about their desire to eat you and make no effort to hide it.

the canvas had disfigured it. Koko squirmed and squealed and made himself

I sweat. If anything comes easy to me I mistrust it.

Hammett used to be irritated by that and would answer that nobody ever deliberately wrote a potboiler, you just did the best you could and woke up to find it good or no good.

Anger is such a waste of time and energy. It takes a monumental effort

Brandolini's law, developed in the context of twenty-first social media, is equally applicable to 1920s Klan-speak: 'The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude greater than that needed to produce it.

I was raised by a woman who knows her own worth, and her daughters firmly believe that life is much better for a woman when a man has to work really hard to get her. It's human nature to take better care of something you've worked for, whether it's a car or a wife.

I don't argue, waste of time and effort. I listen to opinions, though

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You can't change the world, but you can improve a bit of it a little at a time.

Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.

Cynicism is the last refuge of those who don't want to do the work of creating a better society.

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

I believe in a free society, where aspiration and effort can make the difference in every life. Where your starting point is not your destiny and where your first chance is not your only chance.

The classes that wash most are those that work least.

Basis of society: anonymous sweat.

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

According lecture, entire effort United States to incite desire, inflict want, inspire demand.