Quotes About Effort

When you've lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour.

The easier a thing is to write then the more the writer gets paid for writing it. (And vice versa: ask the poets at the bus stop.)

On this "way," if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way

And somewhere along the way it is necessary to see that human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability. It comes through the tireless efforts and the persistent work of dedicated individuals who are willing to be co-workers with God.

There is no gain without struggle.

Whites, it must frankly be said, are not putting in a similar mass effort to reeducate themselves out of their racial ignorance. It is an aspect of their sense of superiority that the white people of America believe they have so little to learn.

I guess one of the great agonies of life is that we are constantly trying to finish that which is unfinishable

Whites, it must frankly be said, are not putting in a similar mass effort to reeducate themselves out of their racial ignorance.

Nothing worthwhile is gained without sacrifice.

Prayer is a marvelous and necessary supplement of our feeble efforts, but it is a dangerous substitute.

We were two years in the making and ten minutes in the destroying.

Who ever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.

Whoever said, It's not whether you win or lose that counts, probably lost.

Whoever said 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts' probably lost.

There is something infinitely better than happily-ever-after. There is happiness. Happiness is a living, dynamic thing, Eve, and has to be worked on every moment for the rest of our lives. It is a far more exciting prospect than that silly static idea of a happily-ever-after. Would you not agree? - Aidan Bedwyn

There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.

But that is what life is all about, he said. It is about dreaming and making those dreams come true with effort and determination - and love.

When we last out at ourselves for having lost control, we are reminded that we never can be in total control, that all life asks of us is to do our best to cope with what is handed to us.

Was something worth having, though, if it didn't present a challenge?

L'homme c'est rien, l'oeuvre c'est tout»

I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.

El hombre no es nada, la obra lo es todo.

Surely the game is hardly worth the candle.

A solitary cyclist was coming towards us. His head was down and his shoulders rounded, as he put every ounce of energy that he possessed on to the pedals. He was flying like a racer.