Quotes About Effort

She was a mild, inoffensive, well-meaning creature, with a face not unlike that of an amiable horse, and she spent most of her life striving so hard to do the right thing and invariably doing the wrong one.

Primero: es inútil que trates de mitigar tus sentimientos de inseguridad intentando cambiar las cosas exteriores a ti. Puede que tus esfuerzos se vean coronados por el éxito, aunque no es eso lo más frecuente; puede que consigas al menos algún alivio, pero éste no será muy duradero. No merece la pena, por tanto, que gastes tus energías y tu tiempo en mejorar tu apariencia física, en hacer más dinero o en asegurarte el amor de tus amigos.

The great Chinese sage Tranxu puts it marvelously: "When the archer shoots for nothing, he has all his skill. When he shoots for a brass buckle, he is already nervous. When he shoots for a prize of gold, he goes blind. He's out of his mind. He sees two targets. His skill has not changed. But the prize divides him. He cares. He thinks more of winning than of shooting. And the need to win drains him of power.

Things hardly ever work on the first try. We'll make another, a better one.

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Why bother to make music when the silence and wind are so much larger? Why light lamps when the darkness will inevitably snuff them?

The whole thing feels like a pool of water that I'm trying to hold in my hands.

Ca inchipuiti mai sunt oamenii! De ce sa te obosesti sa compui muzica daca tacerea si vantul sunt mai cuprinzatoare? De ce sa aprinzi lampi daca intunericul, inevitabil, le va stinge?

In 1979 Griselda Drown was a senior volleyballer at Boise High, a terrifically tall girl with trunky thighs, slender arms and a volleyball serve that won an Idaho State Championship despite T-shirts claiming it was a team effort.

don't get mad at your failures, get up and do it again tomorrow.

The school even had a Latin motto: Pergo et Perago, which sounded like the story of two Italian cannibals but which actually meant "I try and I achieve.

Shi bai kepu seck yi!

Anthony J. D'AngeloRealize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.

And also I assert our interest in respecting all our obligations and implementing all our commitments. And will save no effort whatever to protect this newborn opportunity of peace, that is provided through what we have already declared here today.

I don't think you've done something by getting a job. I think you've done something by proving you can succeed at that job.

I still feel like I have to go out there and get my job done and still produce. It's not about proving, it's about progressing and just getting better.

Of course, you'll have to meet the physical and psychological demands. A space walk takes a lot of energy.

We don't spend our lives at dartboards in the pub - we are at home practising.

Sometimes, when you roll out of bed, you don't want to be photographed by the paparazzi. Usually you like to know when you're being photographed. I've learnt that, as a public figure, you have to up your game and be prepared. Ideally, you try not to roll out of bed without brushing your hair - just chuck a brush through it, make a little effort.

If I want to continue to build the kind of effort we have with Do Something, being in a public office would help. I wouldn't rule it out, but it's not something I feel determined to do.

When Americans support using our military abroad, they want to see a clear plan. They want to know what they need to do and when - and policymakers want to know that there's broad public support for the effort.

On behalf of the federal government, I wish now publicly to appeal to the provinces to lend their co-operation in furthering our country's war effort by effecting at as early a date as may be possible this much needed restriction.

A lot of the stories I got on A.I., I can't say publicly. Overall, I just really appreciated how he went about going into games. He got a lot of flak for the 'practice' comment, but every game, he gave it his all.

No book I publish will be perfect, but I need to feel I've taken it as far as I can.