Quotes About Effort

It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.

If you want to get on in life get off your arse because it ain't going to come to you. And if it does come to you and you're not off your arse then you ain't going to keep it very long.

it is the sum of small things successfully done that lifts a life out of bondage to the humdrum.

It seems to me that life is always undoing for us something that we have just laboriously done.

Some things in life, you don't get. You gotta go take it... Or you'll never have'em.

Every day of my life I make an effort. Like, everything's an effort - a good effort.

My life motto is 'Do my best, so that I can't blame myself for anything.'

The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.

It's about lessons for life. It's not just about winning either.

There is only one thing in life you can control: Your own effort.

Life is like a garden, you reap what you sow

Futility is the defining characteristic of life.

True hope responds to the real world, to real life; it is an active effort.

I have in my own fashion learned the lesson that life is effort, unremittingly repeated.

Each new epoch in life seems an encounter. There is a tussle and a cloud of dust, and we come out of it triumphant or crest-fallen, according as we have borne ourselves.

Anybody can have a life. Careers are hard to come by.

Extreme patience and persistence are required, Yet everybody succeeds at this before being handed The surprise box lunch of the rest of his life.

Inch by inch, life's a cinch. Yard by yard, life's hard.

I should never have made my success in life if I had not bestowed upon the least thing I have ever undertaken the same attention and care that I have bestowed upon the greatest.

Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not.

Give it your all. Give it away. Your desires are being held in the hand of the cosmos with incredibly sturdy care. Life is not testing you. She is rooting for you.

Life is what you make of it. You can make it easy on yourself or you can make it hard.

You always have to give 100%,because if you don't someone, somewhere will give 100% and they will beat you when you meet.

Haven't you picked up on the irony of life by now? Things only just happen when you're not ready. When you're ready, you start trying, and gadamn I feel like trying right now.