Quotes About Effort

when we exert ourselves toward positive endeavors, we should not grimace, but rather have the joy of an elephant jumping into a pool of cool water on a hot, dusty day.

They envy the distinction I have won; let them, therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

Maybe you've made something mediocre—there's plenty of that in any artist's cabinets—but something mediocre is better than nothing, and often the near-misses, as I call them, are the beckoning hands that bring you to perfection just around the blind corner.

The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.

Success has a simple formula do your best, and people may like it.

A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it.

I figure practice puts your brains in your muscles.

Some people put more effort and money into the wedding day than they do into the marriage itself, then it's all downhill from there. I was happy for a simple start; things could only get better.

Some people put more effort and money into the wedding day than they do into the marriage itself, then it's all downhill from there.

The less identifiable one person's effort is, the less effort they put in.

The hardest work begins in dry dock.

Don't leave a stone unturned. It's always something, to know you have done the most you could." -Charles Dickens

All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. (Worstward Ho!)

It is far safer to know too little than too much. People will condemn the one, though they will resent being called upon to exert themselves to follow the other.

God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.

There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the general rule.

To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.

It is far safer to know too little than too much.  People will condemn the one, though they will resent being called upon to exert themselves to follow the other.

nothing is well done nor worth doing unless, take it all round, it has come pretty easily.

The other masters and masters' wives were not forgotten. Alethea laid herself out to please, as indeed she did wherever she went, and if any woman lays herself out to do this, she generally succeeds.