Quotes About Effort

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

When a king asked Euclid, the mathematician, whether he could not explain his art to him in a more compendious manner? he was answered, that there was no royal way to geometry.

He now found that it would be very difficult to effect that which it was very easy to suppose effected.

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.

Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance: yonder palace was raised by single stones, yet you see its height and spaciousness.

This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.

Many complain of neglect who never tried to attract regard.

Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything. It is much easier to steal one hundred pounds than to get it by labour or any other way.

The thing about capturing a prize fish is that everyone admires the fish, and soon forgets about the fisherman. You love the thing that makes you special, then hate it because it's the thing that makes you special.

Mr. Singleton smiled, and look'd as if delighted with all he saw and heard. Once, indeed, he try'd to speak: His mouth actually open'd, to give passage to his words; as sometimes seems to be his way before the words are quite ready: But he sat down satisfied with the effort.

An easy and luxurious existence does not train men to effort or encounter with difficulty; nor does it awaken that consciousness of power which is so necessary for energetic and effective action in life.

He is full of purpose, but void of the quality of mind which accomplishes purpose.

That all any of us has to give is our best. if we do that. we succeed, no matter what the outcome.

have cost precious time. He'd kept moving. It was insufferably hot and sultry. Sweat had

You know, it's all right to be wrong, but it's not all right not to try.

The more nots you are, the more committees you might end up on. Not being not can mean being less likely to end up doing this kind of work. Given that diversity work is typically less valued by organizations, then not being not can mean having more time to do more-valued work.

accommodated. For example, even when universities have access policies, it is often still left to students with disabilities to find out about those policies, to ask about access arrangements at each and every event. 7 The very effort required to find out about access can end up making events inaccessible.

Now, go shovel some shit.

Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work but important.

I don't believe in failure, because simply by saying you've failed, you've admitted you attempted. And anyone who attempts is not a failure. Those who truly fail in my eyes are the ones who never try at all. The ones who sit on the couch and whine and moan and wait for the world to change for them.

If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the world a better place, you have already achieved something wonderful, before you even begin. Forget failure. If things don't work out the way you want, hold your head up high and be proud. And try again. And again. And again!