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Quotes About Effort

Do the best that can be done and then . . . be resigned.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Life is graded on the curve. It's not how big you are, how strong you are, how smart you are. It's how good you are at the things that count relative to the people around you.
~ Robert H. Frank
The students realize that it's their life I'm talking about: it's out of balance, they're struggling to put it into balance. How are they going to do it?
~ Robert McKee
The greatest things in life all require commitment, sacrifice, some struggle and hardship. It's not easy. But absolutely worth it.
~ Robin Sharma
Life helps those who help themselves.
~ Robin Sharma
Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game.
~ Rod Kanehl
In life or in football, touchdowns rarely take place in seventy yard increments. Usually it's three yards and a cloud of dust.
~ Rush Limbaugh
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?
~ Sarah Dessen
Who wants a life of ease? And who wants a life in the office that you hate, and who wants to play golf?
~ Sebastian Junger
Anything worth achieving in life has a dip
~ Seth Godin
Life is gamble, It's harsh and painful most of the time, and it's not for the timid. Spoils go to the victor, not to the one who doesn't even show up for the battle." -Acheron
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Life is effort. So says the body. Life is blessing. So says the soul.
~ Sri Chinmoy
I am trying my best to stay above the water. Right now ACID does not only offer animation. I offer real life productions as well and also compositing (animation composited into real life video)
~ St. Lucia
What we all like in life, I think, is the challenge of making something... that is not easy to do.
~ Stanley Donen
I'm not lazy on set. I'm lazy in the rest of my life.
~ Stellan Skarsgard
...for the first time in my life, writing was hard. The problem was the teaching...by most Friday afternoons I felt as if I'd spent the week with jumper cables clamped to my brain.
~ Stephen King
In real life I can play guitar, sure, but badly.
~ Stuart Townsend
I've never worked so hard for anything in my life as I have for you.
~ Sylvia Day
I'm trying as hard as I possibly can each and every day to get my life better and better and stronger. And if I win championships along the way, so be it.
~ Tiger Woods
...Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears.
~ Victor Hugo
A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying to get the better of it, as it was of her.
~ Virginia Woolf
Life is fits and starts, mostly fits.
~ Walker Percy
There is no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it.
~ Walter Savage Landor
I even tried to tell myself to live my best life today.
~ John Green