Quotes About Effort

I knew that in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late again. I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome.

If you're not getting hurt, you're not riding hard enough.

Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be so easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder--if not impossible--to lose.

I didnt pay atteniton to times or distance, instead focusing on how it felt just to be in motion, knowing it wasn't about the finish line but how I got there that mattered.

Harder to get in than out, like so little else.

It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.

It took a lot of work to be perfect. If you didn't want to break a sweat, there was no point in even bothering.

Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative. Which is? Not even trying. Now he did look at me, straight on. Life's short, you know?

I just do the best I can under the circumstances.

There's no shame in trying to make stuff work, is how I see it. It's better than just accepting the broken.

Sometimes, you get things right the first time. Others, the second. But the third time, they say, is the charm.

talk was cheap and useless. Action was what mattered. And me, I was moving. Now, again, always.

It's harder that in looks, I told him when I finally got back in the car. Most things are

I felt like I'd been swimming so hard, and the water growing warmer and warmer the closer I got to the top. I wasn't there yet, but now I could see the surface, rippling just beyond my fingers.

In the end, though, maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.

I don't believe in failure," she was saying in that confident, breezy way. "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." – Kiki Sparks

No creo en el fracaso porque al decir que hemos fracasado, ya estamos admitiendo que lo hemos intentado. Y todo el que lo intenta no fracasa. Los que fracasan, en mi opinión, son los que ni siquiera lo intentan. Los que se quedan sentados en el sofá y se quejan y gimotean y esperan que el mundo cambie para ellos.

It's hard to do, I said. Wes looked at me. What is? I swallowed, not sure why I'd said this out loud. Get it right.

It took a lot of work to be perfect.

It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.

It was rare for things to be perfect and organized anyway, even with your best efforts. Embrace the messy and when things do come together just right, you'll always be pleasantly surprised.

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.

Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative...not even trying...life's short.

Maybe this next time would do the trick. Or maybe not. But unless you stepped into the game, you would never know.