Quotes About Effort

With just a little effort, life can be more or less exceptionally tolerable.

If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.

Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life.

The ideal is the only absolute real; and it must become the real in the individual life as well, however impossible they may count it who never tried it.

Still all the day the iron wheels go onward, Grinding life down from its mark.

Life is short, and the Tour de France long.

I couldn't throw a knuckleball if my life depended on it.

When there's a piano to be moved, don't reach for the stool.

Discipline in the spiritual life is the concentrated effort to create the space and time where God can become our master and where we can respond freely to God's guidance.

Learn to labour and to wait.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

You can bloom wherever you're planted, if you put enough effort into it.

Nothing important happens in life without a cost.

I had spent 10 days of my life digging for garbage.

I tried, it was hard, I quit, the end. Story of my life.

Sport teaches you about commitment and to dedicate yourself. Whether you make it to the top or not, sport gives you great skills that you can use in life.

The true Losers in Life, are not those who Try and Fail, but those who Fail to Try.

Trophies separate the winners from losers, and life is about winning and losing. Go into business and you see. You're competing every day.

It wasn't a conscious effort to have kids later. It was just the way life goes.

Every single day, you're trading your life for who you're working with and what you do.

Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of very part of your life.

The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when all your arrows are spent.

I believe that in life, you have to give things your best shot, do your best. You have to focus on what needs to be done, do the right thing, not the popular thing.