Quotes About Effort

And then in life, you always have to try, and today, I may not have succeeded, but I am happy to have tried to beat my record.

Every time a child is saved from the dark side of life, every time one of us makes the effort to make a difference in a child's life, we add light and healing to our own lives.

Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.

One does what one can, not what one cannot.

The best things in life must come by effort from within, not by gifts from the outside.

After all, I wasn't a bad person. I was just doing my best in what had turned out to be a fairly imperfect life.

Getting control of life is never easy, and sometimes it can be definitely painful.

The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?

There is but one failure in life and that is the failure to try.

I think that the biggest challenge for me making films is how much of your life you give to something. Shooting the film requires 14-hour days, six days a week.

My life is so much better, it's so much more enriched if I make the effort, if I actually celebrate with gladitude the fact that I get to be on this gorgeous planet.

Watercolor is like life. Better get it right the first time--you don't get a second chance!

You definitely have to be focused at certain times in your life and in your career, but at the end of the day, there's only so much you can do. Then you just have to chock it up to fate.

Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good.

I believe unless we have ambition to accomplish things and to do things that we amount to but very little in the battle of life.

No one can say I didn't pay my dues in life.

I'm a dad now and whatever I'm doing in life I usually put a lot of effort into it - usually too much effort, so it kind of comes off ridiculous at times.

I was good at digging holes. It was the rest of life I sucked at.

The game of life is worth playing, but the struggle is the prize.

There's never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn't make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

The darkest day in life is the one in which we expect something for nothing.

However you envisage your role in life, all you can do is perform it as best you can.

Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.