Quotes About Effort

Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.

The sky's not for us. We weren't meant to fly. All we can do is try not to fall.

Before Google, I don't think people put much effort into the ordering of results. You might get a couple thousand results for a query. We saw that a thousand results weren't necessarily as useful as 10 good ones.

Whenever I have met with our elected officials they are invariably thoughtful, well-meaning people. And yet collectively 90% of their effort seems to be focused on how to stick it to the other party.

Freedom is not an individual effort. Yours comes only when you grant others theirs

I'm not the most romantic guy, although I do try.

Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.

a natural law of cause and effect, when we improve ourselves, the things we would like to have in our lives follow naturally. Improve who you are, and by that same law, you will improve your life.

success, ultimately, is up to the individual. It isn't the pen—it's the writer; it isn't the road—it's the runner that counts.

You never win the silver. You only lose the gold.

I lifted two hundred pounds today, Tenth once bragged to Fourth after a triumphant afternoon at the gym, flexing his arms and chest. Why? Fourth had asked. We have machines to do that for us now. It was a genuine inquiry, but Tenth had tackled him and held him in a headlock until Fourth admitted that lifting heavy weights was a reasonable pursuit despite mankind's significant mechanical progress.)

She had been trying hourly to ensure that this new friendship remained such, to be certain that it would not slip out of the careful grasp of her fingers and into the darker champers of her heart.

All that effort," he mused, "merely to avoid me. How gratifying.

I found this quote more relevant today than it was yesterday: 'Man is born to live in the convulsions of anxiety or the lethargy of boredom. Hard work is the final solution - it prevents all of the above.' - Voltaire

Try. The tiniest dream that you try to make happen, is worth more than the biggest dream you never attempt.

I cut all day and I squared all night And I thought I'd mined the mountain's might Then I saw all my work by the bright dawn light The mountain was the world and my labor a mite

We did it!" says Draculaura. "It wasn't perfect," Frankie says. "Eh, perfect is boring.

Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.

He must have screwed hundreds of girls in his effort to get that chick out of his system. Hadn't worked so far, but hey. He was nothing if not persistent.

Doing your best is more important than being your best.

Maybe five extra push-ups won't matter that night, but what if you do five extra push-ups twice a day six days a week for a year? Or for fifteen years, as I did? Eventually you realize it does make a difference. I was one of those that did extra. If Steve said, "Do a hundred toe-raises and twenty pull-ups," I would do a hundred and five toe-raises and twenty-two pull-ups, while he counted.

Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God's way to say nobody's perfect.

Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God's way of saying nobody's perfect.