Quotes About Effort

sweat streaming killing hard in over kill i wake up screaming there's nothing to be done but go at it again

Duke was not what you would call a natural actor, but he learned. And when he learned, he mastered one of the hardest things of all - to act natural. And he does it so well that a lot of people still don't know he's acting. - Paul Fix

Focus isn't about hammering one nail all our lives. It's about hammering lots of nails, one way, all our lives.

What's the point of doing anything if it's easy? It's so much more valuable when a challenge has to be overcome.

Focus on building up others, and your own sense of self-worth will improve. Some call these random acts of human kindness. But the truth is, acting unselfishly is not random at all. Instead, it is a conscious, concerted effort to make the world better by making someone else's life better. The bonus: you will be happier by doing it.

This is the power of finishing first. This is the power of showing up, leveraging your strengths and weaknesses, and outworking everyone. My world would never be the same.

We're all dealt a different hand in this life. I don't know what hand you were dealt. But I know that the only thing we can do with our hand is play it—no bluffing. You can make the choice. You can either waste the opportunities you've been given, waste away in your regrets and failures, waste your gift, waste your time and energy and effort, and wait for your participation ribbon. Or you can choose to finish first. Which will you choose?

This is where grace lives - in the jumping in. In showing up, day after day. In trying and learning and trying again and again.

I think I can stand up, though!" He demonstrated the questionable optimism of this pronouncement by falling on his face.

A troupe learns to play like we all learn to screw, stumbling and jostling until everything's finally in the right place.

Hey," said Locke, scratching his stubble absently with his quill. "That sounds suspiciously like wisdom, damn your eyes. Why must you always flounce about being wiser than me?" "Doesn't require much conscious effort.

What good's slacking all the time if the ship comes apart beneath you while you sleep?

I think I can stand up through!" He demonstrated the questionable optimism of of this pronouncement by falling on his face.

Morning's for sweat, and night's for regret

In his classic book Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis wrote the following line about making changes, asking God for help, failing, asking for forgiveness when needed, and trying again: "Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again." Lewis is saying that real change comes from continuing to try. That is encouraging because, in his wisdom, Lewis is acknowledging the difficulty of making lasting changes.

Faith without works is dead

playing a game is a voluntary effort to overcome unnecessary obstacles.

Life wasn't about deserving anything. It was about earning everything.

To some people, I may seem calm. But if you could peer beneath the surface, you would see that I'm like a duck--paddling, paddling, paddling.

It was something like stirring concrete with my eyelashes.

In many fields a year of focused work plus caring a lot would be enough.

Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails.

As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note. The very gunfire braces us and the atrocious confers a worth upon the effort which it calls forth to confront it.

To work, her dumb lunge says, is to move a certain mass ...through a certain distance, is to pull your weight and feel exact and equal to it. Feel dragged upon. And buoyant.