Quotes About Effort

Failure is not fatal until we surrender trying again is the key of glorious victory

Some professionals will do almost anything for a chance to work on tough tasks.

The odds of me living until I'm a hundred are slim to none, but I'll try, and I'll enjoy every precious moment.

The best thing to do now, is to do the very best you can.

You won't accomplish anything sitting around wishing. You've got to do things.

Many seek and never see, anyone can tell them why. O they weep and O they cry and never take until they try unless they try it in their sleep and never some until they die. I ask many, they ask me. This is a great mystery.

We can't save everyone, so we have to do what we can when we can.

There are a great many things one can learn to do without actually doing them. Grilling is not one of them.

It is always easier to talk about change than to make it.

Mostly, what people mean by love is laziness.

Achievement is the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.

PLAN, v.t. To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.

Winning has nothing to do with racing. Most days don't have races anyway. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up.

Are you drunk?' 'It's the afternoon, isn't it? I try always to be drunk by now. Once you start a job you should give it your best.

She surely can cook a fight from the most peaceful ingredients. But nothing worth doing is easy. I love her in spite of it. I love her because of it. I love her." And his face broke out in that grin again. "Every day's a new adventure, that's for sure.

Crowds rarely cheer too loudly for the defeated, no matter how hard they fought, how great their sacrifices, how long the odds. Maidens might wet themselves over cheap and worthless victories, but they don't so much as blush for 'I did my best

Worry less about what the gods might do and more about what you can, that's my advice.

People liked to think of beauty as some natural gift, but Savine firmly believed that just about anyone could be beautiful, if they worked hard at it and spent enough money. It was merely a question of emphasising the good, disguising the bad and painfully squeezing the average into the most impressive configuration. Very much like business, really.

He was less and less sure with every day that being a better man was worth all the effort.

When you have a load to lift, you're better lifting than weeping.

I guess most of 'em mean well.' 'Someday you can build a boat from meaning well and see how floats.' 'Tried that. Sank with me on it.

It's a hard world. No one gets what they deserve.

Men must sometimes do what they do not like if they are to be remembered. It is through struggle, not ease, that fame and honour are won. It is through conflict, not peace, that wealth and power are gained.

But easy is for the dead,