Quotes About Effort

the French, who had put large expectations in the abasement of Britain that American success would cause, had been disappointed by the weakness of the American military effort. Instead of an aggressive ally, they were tied to a dependent client, unable to establish a strong government and requiring transfusions of men-at-arms and money to keep its war effort alive.

His one essay in love had exhausted his powers in that direction.

Remember that the true pleasures of life consist in the exertion of our own powers. If you were to feast every day upon roasted partridges from off Dresden china, and dip your whiskers in syllabubs and creams, it could never give you such true enjoyment as the commonest food procured by the labor of your own paws.

Those who work hard ought to eat plentifully, or they will find that they are burning the candle at both ends. Surely no science is required to prove this. Work is, so to speak, a furnace, and the brighter the fire the more coals it ought to be fed with, or it will go out.

Fairness is an illusion. Neither effort nor intention holds title to the nature or form of either the present or the future. And if the sincere effort has no title, what interest can the bellow or the lamentation hold?" - Davigde. "The humans on Amadeen have a different way of saying it... Tough shit." - Yazi Ro

When we make a conscious effort to be our best selves and to set aside our differences, we encourage our loved ones to do the same. The reward is lasting, loving relationships.

The world pretty much sucks most of the time. But the point of life isn't to live in a world that doesn't suck. The point is to try to make it suck a little bit less.

It's just a base hit, people. It means nothing unless we put a string of them together.

But you know, sometimes the fight itself is worthwile, even if the prize at the end ain't.

All our efforts won't make water any wetter.

Immediate work, even poor, is worth more than dreams.

The more one works, the better one works, and the more one wants to work. The more one produces, the more fertile one grows.

Too often we define success as financial achievement. I view success as doing your very best at all costs.

There's nothing you can do that can't be done Nothing you can sing that can't be sung Nothing you can say, but you can learn how to play the game It's easy

My biggest mistake: not wanting to help myself into thinking I am happy, that change would come about without really trying to change, or wanting to change. Procrastinating about changing. I do want to change.

In reality shows, you have to perform once and prove yourself, and after that, it is a process to prove yourself every day.

You do your best with the realization that nothing gets you in ring-shape better than being in the ring.

Winning is the easiest thing that I ever did in the NBA, but being able to come to the realization of what it means to compete in this league no matter what - win, lose or draw - was the most difficult thing.

With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie.

At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and I realized that my success was directly proportionate to the work I put in.

What I realized was how difficult an hour show is and how miserable you can be if you're not happy doing it.

I was always trying to find the balance between trying my best and being an incredible parent. I literally realized that it was chaos - but it was happy chaos.

So I got into growing grapes, not realizing that there was a heck of a lot more to it than meets the eye.

The hardest part about acting is realizing it doesn't matter.