Quotes About Effort

Work gets done if you simply do it.

We are only doing what we can to get through.

We're all just a mess, Angelina, trying as hard as we can, we love imperfectly, Angelina, but it's okay.

But we do the best we can. Most of us are just trying to get through.

A steady flow of loans from the leading banks on Wall Street, led by J.P. Morgan, had enabled the British, French, and Russians to purchase what they needed to sustain the war effort as their gold reserves dwindled from larger and larger war purchases.

Out of the effort to cut back on civilian use of fuel, it was the Federal Fuel Administration that first introduced daylight saving time a year later, in 1918.

armed forces. Compared to the Soviet Union or Great Britain, more women remained at home rather than going to work—more than 60 percent. And the United States converted the least of all its economic output to the war effort, just over 47 percent in 1944 compared to almost 60 percent for Britain and more for Germany and the Soviet Union, only to outproduce everyone else put together, including Japan.5

Don't think, try. —John Hunter

The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition . . . is so powerful a principle, that it is alone, and without any assistance, not only capable of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often incumbers its operations.

American workers in war-related industries in 1942–43 died or were injured in numbers twenty times greater than the American servicemen killed or wounded during those same years.

A world where nothing is had for nothing.

How old am I? Old enough to know it's impossible to change the thinking of fools, but young and foolish enough to keep on trying.

sin is an effort to gain the ecstasy and the knowledge that pertain alone to angels, and in making this effort man becomes a demon.

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.

Holiness requires as great, or almost as great, an effort; but holiness works on lines that were natural once; it is an effort to recover the ecstasy that was before the Fall. But sin is an effort to gain the ecstasy and the knowledge that pertain alone to angels, and in making this effort man becomes a demon.

Man's labors! Explosions that, from time to time, illuminate my abyss.

Just as a blind man may, through labor and diligence, acquire an accurate theoretical or notional conception of many subjects and objects which he never saw, so the natural man may, by religious education and personal effort, obtain a sound doctrinal knowledge of the person and work of Christ, without having any spiritual or vital acquaintance with Him.

Fallire un suicidio non è poi la cosa più tragica al mondo: non si può riuscire sempre in tutto.

Ale je?li próba samobójcza ko?czy si? niepowodzeniem, nie zawsze musi to oznacza? najtragiczniejsz? rzecz na ?wiecie. Przecie? nie wszystko cz?owiekowi si? udaje.

En este oficio, pensó con una cínica mueca interior, el único día fácil es cuando estás muerto.

A menudo —dijo— la derrota llega cuando uno se siente inclinado a hacer sólo lo que puede.

Cuanto más se suda antes de la guerra, menos se sangra en ella.

Al nostro lavoro si viene avendo già pianto a casa.

Correr sólo vale para morir cansado.