Quotes About Effort

Kavray??, bilinçli emekten ba??ms?zd?r, eme?in bilinçd???nda kalan k?sm? istirahat sonras?nda bilince ç?kan biçimi haz?rlam??t?r.

Le plus grand effort de ma vie a toujours été de parvenir à désespérer complètement. Il n'y a rien à faire. Il y a toujours en moi quelque chose qui continue à sourire.

You've always gone all the way, haven't you? — Well, all the way doesn't turn out to be so very far, after all...

It is always pathetic to watch the efforts a man makes to cling to a straw, especially when one is oneself the straw.

All that was still needed was genuine inspiration, a flash of pure poetry that would make all the difference between an elaborate, overcomplicated and clumsy effort and the simplicity of beauty.

a hero is a man who does what he can. The others do not do it.

Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.

Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things Ã¢â'¬Â¦ fail because we lack concentration—the art of concentrating the mind on the thing to be done at the proper time and to the exclusion of everything else?

Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.

Bob slid his chair back and moved the coal-oil lamp from the kitchen to the sitting room. He said, "Oftentimes things seem impossible up until they're attempted." Then he lidded the chimney glass with his palm and suffocated the light.

All people are self-made. Only the successful people admit it.

Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works.

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?

Men with good social circles aren't conscious of the effort they put in to maintain them (although they may be conscious of the value they give).

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. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

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. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, and you don't branch out, you don't try-you don't take the risk.

They goaded me on to unusual efforts and caused me, and those around me, considerable suffering. Of course, the surprising thing was that my increasing success did little to lessen the tension.

I understand that trying and achieving are the same thing when you are your own master—and I am.

Getting out of bed, out of a chair, changing her position, was like moving furniture.

Sometimes energy of this nature, chaos, ill luck, goes out in the world and begets and begets. Bad luck rarely stops with one occurrence. All Indians know that. To stop it quickly takes great effort

I did not choose solitude. Who would? It came on me like a kind of vocation, demanding an effort that married women can't picture. Sometimes, even now, I look on the married girls the way a wild dog might look through the window at tame ones, envying the regularity of their lives but also despising the low pleasure they get from the master's touch.

Maybe what makes life so terribly fatiguing is nothing other than the enormous effort we make for twenty years, forty years, and more, to be reasonable, to avoid being simply, profoundly ourselves, that is, vile, ghastly, absurd. It's the nightmare of having to represent the halt subhuman we were fobbed off with as a small-size universal ideal, a superman from morning to night.

When you stop to examine the way in which words are formed and uttered, our sentences are hard put to it to survive the disaster of their slobbery origins. The mechanical effort of conversation is nastier and more complicated than defecation.