Quotes About Effort

sometimes people couldn't be saved, no matter how much you wanted it, no matter how hard you tried.

But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don't put the work and the effort into it. You've got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall.

Je vais te dire quelque chose, mon ami: c'est plus facile d'être malheureux qu'heureux, et moi, tu m'entends, je n'aime pas les gens qui choisissent la facilitê, je n'aime pas les geignards! Sois heureux, merde! Fais ce qu'il faut pour être heureux!

The way a source strains toward the light, toward the air. Its laboring work, its effort, its black passageways like despair. That's the way a poet looks for words. With muscles, gestures.

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent, work transforms talent into genius.

do your best wherever it is, and keep up your good name.

Do you want to know what 'special' really means, my darling? It means more training, more work, more study, more discipline, more rules.

It is the task of a lifetime. You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.

I: Dreams give us more than we ask M: I'm not talking about dreams no one's dreams are of any use to anyone else I: Why M: They are merely experiments an experimental surface I: But surely that involves at least let's say an organizing effort M: Nothing takes place but the place I: Are you serious M: Just a telephone ringing in an empty house I: Why not answer it

Chelyabinsk was at the center of the war effort.

Men—most people, in fact—value the hard-won prize over that which comes to them easily, don't you think?" Excerpt From: "Marry in Haste

Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter.

He had little respect for anyone who was not willing to put in the effort required to survive and thrive. Not everyone needed the same driving ambition that had fueled him. That had led him to being possibly the richest man in London without a title in his lineage -- all earned in under a decade. That had given him the power to change lives. But a person needed to have the drive to change his own life.

Who wills, Can. Who tries, Does. Who loves, Lives.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

it takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded.

Though they washed her with wineand rubbed her with butterit was to no avail.She lay as still as a gold piece.

All day I've built a lifetime and now the sun sinks to undo it.

And telling you I care about you is a waste of time. I wouldn't have crossed the ocean, come out of hiding, tracked you down, if you didn't matter to me.

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that people will never know about. (from 'Celestial Navigation')