Quotes About Effort

There's a lot of effort expended once you begin to completely trash your life. Sometimes, writing feels like this to me.

A lot of cities are making a real effort, neighborhood by neighborhood, to make themselves into a place where life can be pretty good.

Ultimately, I think the movie's about working as a means of finding meaning in your life. It's about the lesson, the great lesson, of just working, working and being productive.

Everyone tried with me. And everytime, it felt like the whole point of life was to see if trying was ever enough.

The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration.

My real-life athletic career was not very much. I played Little League baseball.

Even the contemplative life is only an effort, Nora my dear, to hide the body so the feet won't stick out.

In life every effort is marked down at the end as a win or a loss.

[The] public path of life Is dirty.

I'm trying my best to keep my private life guarded. It's not easy at all. Non, non, non.

I wear no makeup in real life. I'm very simple. That may be why I go over the top for the red carpet. But otherwise, I'm very plain. I should make more of an effort, actually.

Detest it [a certain difficult mathematics problem] just as much as lewd intercourse; it can deprive you of all your leisure, your health, your rest, and the whole happiness of your life.

There is competition in Zen. Let's not be ridiculous. There is competition in everything in life; being a winner in Zen means, competing and winning in the world of enlightenment.

There's no explanation for success. Success just comes out of life.

Life on earth is like college and we're all just trying to pass the courses.

In life, we all get scored on every day. The wonderful thing is, if we do our best with courage and tenacity, we might be outscored but we can never be beaten.

Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.

My struggle is to bring 'life' in 'file'.

Life's not about feeling better, it's about getting the job done.

Always saying, "I tried" when you didn't really try at all.

Despising anything that was easy to achieve because if no sacrifice was involved, it obviously isn't worth having.

Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!

Life is a race. If you delay starting, how can you have any hope of winning?

Writing is the only thing in my life that doesn't get easier. It just doesn't.