Quotes About Effort

There's life alone in duty done, And rest alone in striving.

Vain the ambition of kings Who seek by trophies and dead things To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind.

I feel like at the Olympics I gave the best performance of my life and I wasn't rewarded for that as an athlete. Yes, my fans and my mom were happy about it, but I didn't win that gold medal.

All life is the struggle, the effort to be itself.

Perfection is worth striving for, even if it is ultimately unattainable in this life.

Her life was like running on a treadmill or riding on a stationary bike; it was aerobic, it was healthy, but she wasn't going anywhere.

I make such big efforts to forget things and I can't tell the story of my life because, thank God, I'm still living it.

No point in thinking, you just have to get on with life. We only have one after all, we should try and do our best. We can never get it right, but we must try.

I've been second my whole life.

As long as he had life, who deserved it so little, he would use it, wield it, and do whatever he could in its name, even if it was not, was never, enough

That's always the way in life: the longer you leave things, the harder they are to do.

All my life, I've been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I've come is a bogey.

I've tried to do away with lying in my life in the last few years, but it's hard.

Some things in life are not pleasant but they have to be done. For instance, German and maths.

All life is a struggle in the dark.

Life is like riding a bicycle. You get nowhere standing up, so get up on that seat and go!

Life is all business.

Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.

You learn in life that a lot of things are the result of effort, but some things, in terms of scale, are random.

It's not just songs and glamour. It's sweat, blood, broken toes, and mistakes... It's life.

Life is a Sisyphean race, run ever faster toward a finish line that is merely the start of the next race

As has so often been said, there is, as yet, no recorded abduction experience that proved, upon investigation, to be a reflection of some other trauma or experience, despite a great deal of effort on the part of investigators to find some other source for these experiences.

diligently on their homework and making good progress

Incidentally, one should make a distinction, as Freud did a long time ago, between mental items that are not conscious but that can be brought to consciousness with effort, like the things in our memories—Freud called that mental domain the preconscious—and things in the unconscious that are unavailable and cannot be recalled. We simply don't know they are there.