Quotes About Effort

You must be ready to confront difficulties if you would realise your hopes. It is the part of man to strive, and not to rely on the favours of Fortune.

There is no state of being called "trying".

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It is not the straining for great things that is most effective, it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.

Really I don't dislike to cook, but what you cook is eaten so quickly. When you sew, you have something that will last to show for your efforts.

You tried. That was all you could do. All any of us can do....

She tried to, anyway.

Be one of the best, or suffer like the rest.

Getting ready is the biggest part of any job, and the hardest, Jared...Lay your foundation true and firm, my boy, prepare your work well; the rest all but does itself.

Can't you see that it doesn't matter what the world thinks if you've done your work the best you knew how to do?

Besides, easy is overrated, and the only easy day was yesterday.

You trusted you would die soon enough, though you would do your damndest not to.

You'll be surprised at the number of table mats, napkins, curtains, and sport things that have to be ironed, even with only two in the household….

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There's an observation attributed to Aristotle, which goes to show how long the complainers have been a bother: If you don't want to be criticized, then do nothing, say nothing, be nothing, make nothing.

Education, culture, the exercise of the will, human effort, all have their proper sphere, but here they are powerless. They may produce an outward correctness of behavior, but they cannot change the heart;

Seest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men." "In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury." "The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing." "The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags." ...

Rather than praising their personalities or intelligence ("You are so smart" or "artistic" or "athletic"), criticizing them ("You are so stupid" or "uncoordinated"), or attributing their accomplishments to luck, we can praise their efforts or strategies.

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference.

La formación de un carácter noble es la obra de toda una vida, y debe ser el resultado de un aplicado y perseverante esfuerzo. Dios da las oportunidades; el éxito depende del uso que se haga de ellas.

My painting teacher in high school used to say, 'I can't paint like I want to, but through practice I'll get better.' But I don't think that's true. I think sometimes you just can't paint.

You can't get better at things you never play.

The pat on the back becomes more important than the music or the skating. One part of us becomes ever more committed to earning the pat on the back, while another subversive part—that we try to ignore—kicks and screams and resists the teacher's authority. This is the part that gives us all kinds of excuses for not practicing.

So you take her to the pictures, trying to become a fixture. Inch by inch trying to reach her, all the way through the second feature. Worrying about your physical fitness, tell me how you got this sickness?