Quotes About Effort

It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.

I think if you'll look around, my boy,' he said gently, 'you'll find that no one is quite right. But we all do the best we can.

Sie lernt Wüstenbewohner- // gesten. Arabisch lernt sie auch, aber nach vielen // Mühen gibt sie es wieder auf, denn sie ist // unvergleichlich weniger begabt für Sprachen als fürs // Revolutionieren.

If one has the will and persistence, one CAN do things . . . always try every possible way, and if you don't see a way, ask for help . . . COURAGE ALL THE TIME.

The evolution of force can only be made by struggle, by combat, by effort, by exercise, and inasmuch as I´shvara is building men and not babies, He must draw out men's forces by pulling against their strength, making them struggle in order to attain, and so vivifying into outer manifestation the life that otherwise would remain enfolded in itself.

I think that we all share the intuition that the latter case would feel worse, even though that version of you trained for distance running and actually ran 16 miles of a 26.2-mile race, compared with the version of you that never got off the couch. The reason it feels worse is that if you don't try, if you never start the race, there is no failing to reach the finish line because you never set that as a goal for yourself in the first place.

Your friend complains about being in a bad relationship. If you ask, "Why don't you just break up?" they'll frequently say, "Because I've put so much time into trying to make this relationship work.

We need to start thinking about waste as a forward-looking problem, not a backward-looking one. That means realizing that spending another minute or another dollar or another bit of effort on something that is no longer worthwhile is the real waste.

Progress along the way should count for something, but we discard it because goals are pass-fail, all-or-nothing, yes-or-no. There's no partial credit given.

It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to.

A lot of us would like to move mountains, but few of us are willing to practice on small hills.

You're never a loser til you quit trying.

Good relationships don't just happen; they take time, patience and two people who truly want to work to be together.

Count that day lost whose low descending sun. Views from thy hand no worthy action done.

And remember that behind every successful woman is a basket of dirty laundry.

"Dead last" is greater than "did not finish" which trumps "did not start."

Simply because we do not run across goal lines, slam dunk basketballs, or hit home runs, doesn't mean we can't change the score.

I may not be the strongest. I may not be the fastest. But I'll be damned if I'm not trying my hardest.

You have a choice. You can throw in the towel, or you can use it to wipe the sweat off of your face.

The man who rolls up his shirt sleeves is rarely in danger of losing his shirt.

We're professional footballers, so we have to go out there and perform as best we can and try and get the results that we want.

I competed every day as a professional football player... You've got to like competing. That's how your team gets better, when you have competition every day.

I actually started trying to be a professional writer with novels, and I wrote two that exist and are around... kind of. But they never really went anyplace in particular. I still like them both. What it showed me was that you can spend years on a novel, and then it could just be, like, OK, you spent that time and that's that.

As modern-day professionals it all comes down to how you perform on the pitch.