Quotes About Effort

You continue to try to hammer out fastball command the best you can.

We're not saying people don't need fuel for strenuous work; they just don't need it constantly. People have many more resources at hand than they might think.

I think anything you do on your own, so to speak, I think, is worth more than something that is maybe looked upon as gifted to you or handed to you.

I have never known what to tell anybody. Except that it is better to do something than nothing, even if the cost is great.

I've been thinking that it's as if my ancestors are saying it's all right to make things. That's what I'm meant to do. Make things, and help the Abhorsen and the King. So I'll do that, and I'll do my best, and if my best isn't good enough, at least I will have done everything I could, everything that is in me. I don't have to try to be someone else, someone I could never be.

continue to love each other, something I discover is not an automatic state but must be worked at, like an ever-changing tactical problem, though I would never describe it that way to my beloved

It is better to do something than nothing, even if the cost is great.

So I'll do that, and I'll do my best, and if my best isn't good enough, at least I will have done everything I could, everything that is in me. I don't have to try to be someone else, someone I could never be.

She very rarely cried, but being brave all the time took an enormous amount of effort. Sometimes she just got tired of keeping everything together.

When we express appreciation, it means that we recognize the value of the other person's contribution to our relationship/ Each of us expends our energy and abilities in ways that benefit our relationship.

When an action does not come naturally to you it is a greater expression of love.

A gift is a gift only when given as a genuine expression of love, not as an effort to cover over past failures.

No matter what I did, it was never enough.

Like most business transactions, love has to be invested in before we will discover a payoff. — Steven Thompson —

They fall out of love, and at that point either they withdraw, separate, divorce, and set off in search of a new in-love experience, or they begin the hard work of learning to love each other without the euphoria of the in-love obsession.

Falling in love is not real because it is effortless. Whatever we do in the in-love state requires little discipline or conscious effort on our part.

That kind of love requires effort and discipline. It is the choice to expend energy in an effort to benefit the other person, knowing that if his or her life is enriched by your effort, you too will find a sense of satisfaction -- the satisfaction of having genuinely loved another

kind of love requires effort and discipline.

When we focus on doing our jobs and trust God to do His, everything works better. — Liz Collard —

The simplest melodies are the hardest to play

Extraordinary results happen only when you give the best you have to become the best you can be at your most important work.

Gary Paulsen - If you work on something hard and get some success. You can get some nice rewards.

Y)ou've got to do more than what's expected if you want to get ahead.

All of flying is easy. Just takes learning. Like everything else. Like everything else.