Quotes About Effort

You dance?" "I think that might be overly optimistic," he said. "I do something. I'll try not to hurt you.

tuition, lots of fund-raising and often

You're a terrible cook, Daniel. I know, he replied, But it's the effort that counts. I hope that's not the slogan for your dental practice.

But why bother trying to turn a monkey into a goat?

If you work hard, you will eat easy. If you work easy, you will eat hard.

there was only one rule. Work hard and be nice, and everything would go just fine. That should be the rule for life, too, Emily thought. But, of course, that wasn't how things went.

You can't squeeze blood from a stone. You can try, but you do all the bleeding.

What did the kids call it these days? Sweaty tryhard? When you bent over backward to get someone to like you?

The reward for all high performance must be sought within itself or sought in vain.

Why did the act of simplifying your life seem so complicated and require so much effort? Why was there never any time to do it?

keys to get

Once, he added, you told me that the seeking counts more than the finding. So, too, must the striving count more than the gain.

Had I done it sooner, perhaps he might have lived. He was a man of courage and good heart, a proud man. Now he is dead. I saved the signal to use in a worthy cause, and when I found one it was wasted." "Wasted?" answered Fflewddur. "I think not. Since you did your best and didn't begrudge using it, I shouldn't call it wasted at all.

Think only on the climb. Think on what you control

Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, It isn't fair about everything else.

como si dijera: «Ya casi hemos terminado», y ciertamente los chorritos de leche salieron más finos y lentos. Dio un apretón final

But the moment passed and was followed by an urge, a need, a passionate yearning to share the warmth with the one person left for him to love. Aching from the effort, he forced the memory of warmth into the thin, shivering body in his arms. Gabriel stirred. For a moment they both were bathed in warmth and renewed strength as they stood hugging each other in the blinding snow.

Cooking's a bother.

Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.

Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.

I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is…the higher achievement.

In fact, since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.

Must retire harder...

Andy was clutching her blue T-shirt. She rolled over, as Tony had, palms to the surface, and pushed up. Andy, turning his head toward his father, reached out with his upper hands and tried to shove off from Claire with his lowers. The floor leaped up and smacked him. For