Quotes About Effort

And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.

Writers say two things that strike me as nonsense. One is that you must follow an absolute schedule everyday. If you're not writing well, why continue it? I just don't think this grinding away is useful.

A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

A woman can look book moral and exciting ... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.

Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.

When you come to analyze the love of money which was the general impulse to effort in your day, you find that the dread of want and desire of luxury was but one of several motives which the pursuit of money represented; the others, and with many the more influential, being desire of power, of social position, and reputation for ability and success.

Talent does what it can: Genius does what it must.

What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but will to labor. I believe that labor judiciously and continuously applied becomes genius.

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

I'd walk a mile for a Camel.

We're Number Two. We try harder.

Work liberates.

Hang by your thumbs, everybody! Write if you get work!

The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.

Go the extra mile. It's never crowded.

The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle.

Al que madruga Dios le ayuda [God helps those who get up early].

Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.

The view is better when it is earned.

You know you are getting old when it takes too much effort to procrastinate.

If curling were easy, they'd call it hockey.

The tassel's worth the hassle!

Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.