Quotes About Effort

So, good news/bad news: good news that I'm progressing; bad news that life is short and art is long.

Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight.

Do it or don't. It's amazing how many things in life are that easy.

Nothing in life that's worth anything is easy.

It is really not how much you can get out of life that matters; it is how much you can put into it that counts. What will you contribute to life today?

The discipline learned from putting in time and effort as a child is a skill and a talent you carry with you for the rest of your life in trying to achieve goals.

In life it is training rather than birth which counts.

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

I don't do well with expectation in my life. All I can do is do the best that I can do.

You must first put something into your life before you can get something out of it.

All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.

Nothing of great value in this life comes easily. The things of highest value sometimes come hard. The gold that has the greatest value lies deepest in the earth, as do the diamonds.

As I said, I wish I could say it was easy. It wasn't, but it wasn't hard either. But without a strong reason or purpose, anything in life is hard.

For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.

In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.

For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.

Every performer can get better. It's not about staying with what God gave you and doing nothing with it for the rest of your life.

Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized.

People make a lot of effort not to remember, not to accept their immense magical potential.

Life is a bank account, there are no withdrawals without first putting something in.

Most of life is showing up. You do the best you can, which varies from day to day.

A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.

Blessed with some success, so I'mma try my best to live my life right. When I see God, he'll be impressed.

I do my job like I breathe — so if I can't breathe I'm in trouble.