Quotes About Effort

In short, his entire life became a race against the natural—and he was winning.

Maybe they were. Very little was beyond Noah's capabilities when he wasn't mounting a concerted effort to flunk.

After politics, journalism has always been the preferred career of the ambitious but lazy second-rater.

You can't break eggs without making an omelet, said Butler sententiously.

These books are a great deal harder to read than they were to write.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

One has no talent. I have no talent. It's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.

Terror was always just behind her shoulder: she was wasted by the effort of not turning round.

A book takes me a year to write. It's too hard work for a revenge. -If you knew how little you had to revenge....

I have no talent; it's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.

Terror was always just behind her shoulder: she was wasted by the effort of not turning round. She dressed up her fear, so that she could look at it—in the form of fever, rats, unemployment. The real thing was taboo—death coming nearer every year in the strange place: everybody packing up and leaving, while she stayed in a cemetery no one visited, in a big aboveground tomb.

A man may die yet still endure if his work enters the greater work, for time is carried upon a current of forgotten deeds, and events of great moment are but the culmination of a single carefully placed thought,' said Vitali, reciting the ancient words of wisdom as though they were his own. 'As all men must thank progenitors obscured by the past, so we must endure the present so that those who follow may continue the endeavour.

After things settle down, we can all take our turn sticking our heads through the hole in the Sisyphus mural.

challenge and difficulty mattered less to the great majority than accomplishment and gain

If he's choosing not to make a simple effort that would put you at ease and bring harmony to a recurring fight, then he doesn't respect your feelings and needs.

path of least resistance, or the walk over hot coals.

Sometimes it was as effortless as breathing. Sometimes it was as hard as living.

I'm not saying it's easy. I'm saying it's worth doing. Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

People born rich don't try so hard. They know they don't need to. They already have everything they want, and they never have to break a sweat to show it off. Showing it off is for those at risk of ending up back where they started.

Getting rid of a body did not get easier as he got more practiced at it.

effort.While people involved in religious forms of the flesh may believe they are taking sin seriously by persistently reminding people to stop doing it, they are actually trivializing sin by depicting it as something that can be overcome through behavior modification.

I think the future is like anything else that's important. It has to be earned. If we don't earn it, we don't have a future at all. And if we don't earn it, we don't deserve it, we have to live in the present, more or less forever. Or worse, we have to live in the past. I think that's probably what love is - a way of earning the future.

And I'd learned, the hard way, that sometimes, even with the purest intentions, we make things worse when we do our best to make things better.

each one of us, we all have to earn our future,' she said slowly. 'I think the future is like anything else that's important. It has to be earned. If we don't earn it, we don't have a future at all. And if we don't earn it, if we don't deserve it, we have to live in the present, more or less forever. Or worse, we have to live in the past. I think that's probably what love is—a way of earning the future.