Quotes About Effort

The one thing in life you can control is your effort. Are there any shortcuts in the beauty business? No. That was the first lesson I learned. You can't just rocket to the top.

Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life-shaped, spurn the easy symmetry and cheap resonance of reality.

We do two things in life: We race the clock and everything is a struggle. One way or not, it's a metaphorical battle all of the time.

There's always risk in life's most rewarding pursuits, isn't there?

I see a man's life is a tedious one.

Just saying you are better than good won't make it so. But, when you understand what it takes to live the better than good life, and you apply yourself, your life will truly be better than good.

Life is a ladder, it's not a bed

When you fail to succeed the first time, keep trying. It's called life.

The easiest thing to do on earth is not write…But this is life on earth, you can't have everything.

Life shall be built in doing and suffering and creating.

The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it.

It's a cliché - but true - that life is not a dress rehearsal. You get to do it once, so do it well.

I spent my life working before I started band. I worked construction, landscaping. I worked in kitchens, cleaned dishes. I worked demolition.

In the game of life, before you get anything out, you must put something in!

Life is much more interesting when you make a little bit of effort.

Ah, why Should life all labour be?

There's no point in spending your life in the pursuit of something that's easy.

I think life is a wondrous thing. I'm happy to try pretty hard.

Effort is required to live life of others, but to live our own every action comes all and only natural.

Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July.

Jihad is nothing but making efforts to realise goodness in life.

I think it's a sin to sit down and let your life go without making a try for it.

The thing about failure is that you never know how close you were to success.

I could field as long as I can remember, but hitting has been a struggle all my life.