Quotes About Effort

God always strives together with those who strive.

We spend our life, it's ours, trying to bring together in the same instant a ray of sunshine and a free bench

You have to gather your energy together...conserving it and insulating it from dissipation in every direction other than that of your purpose.

There is one single thread binding my way together...the way of the Master consists in doing one's best...that is all.

Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing

Our goal is not to win. It's to play together and play hard. Then, winning takes care of itself.

It's hard to win in the NFL. You have to maintain a very delicate balance putting together the right team to be able to win and have any amount of success.

I've worked so hard to keep this family together.

The fundamentals of the game are the same wherever you go: pass, dribble, shoot, defend, rebound, screen, play hard and together

You spend so much time, so much effort, trying to hold yourself together. And then everything falls apart anyway.

The playoffs is all about showing heart and playing together.

For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.

We found out that no matter how good you are you can't go out there and compete against teams that have been together for quite some time.

The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.

What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a moment.

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?

And the need to dissemble after all these years of doing so just seemed too much of an effort now.

But she had to try. Her own love for Robert was a strong pain that she would have to bear for the rest of her life if she must. But if there was a chance that he loved her too and that their separation had not been of their own making, then she felt compelled to try to make possible a reconciliation. She had to put every ounce of effort into the attempt.

Henrietta was bitter. Nothing in her life had turned out well. Like everyone else, she had striven all her life to achieve happiness. Yet it seemed to her that she had never been happy.

Peace is hard won, and the effort to keep it is ongoing. We must never become complacent in life. We must never feel we have arrived and there is nothing left to do but enjoy.

I wanted to be able to give her all of myself. I tried.

You've worked hard at school and at gymnastics. That's no easy feat!

Creativity is a commodity and derives its value only in how energy is spent.

she wondered if men ever figured out that they were more appealing when they were pursuing their own work than when they were pursuing a woman.