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Quotes About Effort

Becka had a lot of these control-yourself techniques. I tried to practise them. They worked some of the time.
~ Margaret Atwood
But compassion takes work, and we were young.
~ Margaret Atwood
Roz is crying again. What she's mourning is her own good will. She tried so hard, she tried so hard to be kind and nurturing, to do the best thing. But Tony and the twins were right: no matter what you do, somebody always gets boiled.
~ Margaret Atwood
You attempt merely power you accomplish merely suffering
~ Margaret Atwood
Hacer caso omiso no es lo mismo que ignorar, hay que esforzarse para ello.
~ Margaret Atwood
The tulip is not a reason for disbelief in the hanged man, or vice versa. Each thing is valid and really there. It is through a field of such valid objects that I must pick my way, every day and in every way. I put a lot of effort into making such distinctions. I need to make them. I need to be very clear, in my own mind. I
~ Margaret Atwood
I believe in effort, but not in unnecessary effort: Aunt Vidala was most likely negotiating her exit from this world all on her own.
~ Margaret Atwood
as he huffed across the rocky edge.
~ Margaret Feinberg
Joy is irrational and takes hard work and does not always deliver a happily ever after.
~ Margaret Feinberg
desear y conseguir eran dos cosas distintas. La vida no le había enseñado que correr no siempre significa alcanzar.
~ Margaret Mitchell
Scarlett knew the effort this involved both mentally and physically, for Melanie suffered torments of shyness in the presence of anything male.
~ Margaret Mitchell
I do not underestimate the difficulty of the challenge that global climate change presents to us. It will take a significant effort and the best talent and technology we have to solve the problem.
~ Federico Pena
Are you lazy or just incompetent?
~ Jeff Bezos
If I were to draw on a paper what gym does for me, I would make one dot and then I would erase it.
~ Elizabeth Berg, Joy School
I must be thankful that I get to do intense dramatic roles, because it takes so much more, whereas I've been doing L'Oreal forever, and I can do that in my sleep.
~ Andie MacDowell
We win some, we lose some, but there is always some.
~ Anthony Liccione
It took me three weeks to stuff the turkey. I stuffed it through the beak.
~ Phyllis Diller
The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.
~ Fridtjof Nansen
The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time.
~ Joe Girard
We need to make a change while there's still time, it is hard, and at times I struggle trying to reveal mine.
~ Hopsin
Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?
~ Carol S. Dweck
If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.
~ Robert Doisneau
My goal is to win the next game one possession at a time. That's it. I don't have any other goals
~ Brad Stevens