Quotes About Effort

The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine.

If you are careful,' Garp wrote, 'if you use good ingredients, and you don't take any shortcuts, then you can usually cook something very good. Sometimes it is the only worthwhile product you can salvage from a day; what you make to eat. With writing, I find, you can have all the right ingredients, give plenty of time and care, and still get nothing. Also true of love. Cooking, therefore, can keep a person who tries hard sane.

Students would be assessed on effort rather than skill. You didn't have to be a natural athlete to do well in gym.

This country's drifting into serious trouble because of the clamor for simple and immediate solutions to complex problems that will take years to solve—even with total effort on both sides.

En mi lápida quiero que diga: «Estaba loco, pero al menos lo intentó.» —¡Papá!

Incluso cuando se está condenado al fracaso, vale la pena poner en práctica todo lo que uno sabe, para que cuando llegue la derrota inevitable, uno tenga al menos la satisfacción de saber que hizo cuando estaba en su mano para evitarlo.

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

You've got to take your chances in life, don't ignore the opportunities when the crop up as you don't get that many, every little helps, the small victories are important because that's your lot.

Application is complication',

up all morning; it would not be unheard

It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.

A dreamer lives forever, and a toiler dies in a day.

It is hard to know what other way men can come at truth, to lay hold of it, if they do not dig and search for it as for gold and hid treasure; but he that does so must have much earth and rubbish before he gets the pure metal; sand, and pebbles, and dross usually lie blended with it, but the gold is nevertheless gold, and will enrich the man that employs his pains to seek and separate it.

Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.

There is no such thing as talent, there is only cleaning the mirror.

people work best and hardest in a place where they know they are valued.

Magic is a building of many small efforts towards a final, greater end," Hywel said. "Magic is slow.

You got one guy going boom, one guy going whack, and one guy not getting in the endzone.

The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.

Work is easier when its just work; it's much harder when you actually care.

Every day you guys look worse and worse. And today you played like tomorrow.

It,s hard not to be able. There, look there!/ I cannot get the movement nor the light;/Sometimes it almost makes a man despair/To try and try and never get it right./Oh, if I could -oh, if I only might,/I wouldn,t mind what hells I,d have to pass,/Not if the whole world called me fool and ass." Dauber (A poem). John Masefield. 1916. London William Heinemann

If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it.