Quotes About Effort

Poor Jo tried desperately to be good, but her bosom enemy was always ready to flame up and defeat her, and it took years of patient effort to subdue it.

it cost him an effort to speak out then and there, because his conscience would not let him be silent.

While we wait we may all work, so that these hard days need not be wasted.

A year seems very long to wait before I see them, but remind them that while we wait we may all work, so that these hard days need not be wasted.

She did neither, but she remembered the scene, and gave the Professor her heartiest respect, for she knew it cost him an effort to speak out then and there, because his conscience would not let him be silent. She began to see that character is a better possession than money, rank, intellect, or beauty, and to feel that if greatness is what a wise man has defined it to be, 'truth, reverence, and good will', then her friend Friedrich Bhaer was not only good, but great.

Then I don't feel as if I'd wasted my life. I'm not so good as you make me, but I have tried to do right. And now, when it's too late to begin even to do better, it's such a comfort to know that someone loves me so much, and feels as if I'd helped them.

I do think washing dishes and keeping things tidy is the worst work in the world.

never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault

It's my dreadful temper! I try to cure it, I think I have, and then it breaks out worse than ever. Oh

for though we do want to be good, it's hard work, and we forget, and don't do our best.

Lounging and larking doesn't pay, observed Jo, shaking her head. I'm tired of it and mean to go to work at something right off.

It's highly virtuous to say we'll be good, but we can't do it all at once, and it takes a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull all together before some of us even get our feet set in the right way.

talent isn't genius and you can't make it so

Chide me not, laborious band, For the idle flowers I brought: Every aster in my hand Goes home laden with a thought.

As far as Chess, Carley Co.'s territory is concerned, every effort is being made to dislodge Rice.

He preferred to portray his fortune as a pleasant accident, the unsought by-product of hard work.

The effort of having to look more or less like one's photographs is becoming such a strain.

But he was not a writer, and never would be. Try as he might, he only succeeded in putting honest words on the rack, leaving them screaming, though of this he was happily unconscious.

We fought a war on poverty, and poverty won

Nuestra democracia, con todos su fallos, es un logro inmenso de la Humanidad, Bruna. El resultado de muchos siglos de esfuerzo y sufrimiento. Escucha, el mundo se mueve, la sociedad se mueve, y cuanto más democrática, más movilidad y capacidad para cambiarla.

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried.

Oh." Elfrida made much effort not to appear too astonished. She had never seen any person in her life less likely to be a minister's wife.

my time pulling up the beastly things.

Antony was neat-fingered and had obviously done this thing many times before, but still indulged in a good deal of cursing and bad language before the new bow and a few arrows were finally done.