Quotes About Effort

Wringing your hands only stops you from rolling up your sleeves.

continued working on their joint project in the States, while she did

Wringin' your hands only stops you from rollin' up your sleeves.

Blessed are the horny hands of toil!

No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him; there is always work And tools to work withal, for those who will....

In creating, the only hard thing's to begin;A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak.

You've gut to git up airlyEf you want to take in God.

Why, oh why, must we always go through pigs to get our truffles?

Always do your absolute best. When you do your absolute best you can ALWAYS Expect To Win.

x. IT WAS EIGHT-THIRTY IN the morning by the time I got to storage, with a sore jaw from grinding

unfortunately it's necessary," he said, sniffling and wiping his nose on his sleeve. His course load was

THE SUMMER OF 1863 marked a crucial transformation in the Union war effort—the organization and deployment of black regiments that would eventually amount to 180,000 soldiers, a substantial proportion of eligible black males.

He would view each position as a test of character, effort, endurance, and will. He would keep nothing in reserve for some will-o-the-wisp future. Rather, he would regard each job as a pivotal test, a manifestation of his leadership skills.

If this were so; it meant the people I knew didn't belong in the governing class. And the other people did. And I intended to be in the governing class. If they proved too hard for me I would quit, but until I made the effort I would not quit. And find out if I was too weak to hold my own. -Theodore Roosevelt

While some men, he observed, were naturally fearless, he had to train his "soul and spirit" as well as his body. So, "constantly forcing himself to do the difficult or even dangerous thing," he gradually was able to cultivate courage as "a matter of habit, in the sense of repeated effort and repeated exercise of will-power.

the leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for tomorrow that can be done to-day." The key to success, he insisted, is "work, work, work.

students should be told that an effort is always required, when you start to read a serious author, to overcome mental laziness and reluctance, because you are about to enter the mind of someone who thinks differently from yourself. And that is the whole point and the only point: the literary treasure-house has many mansions.

Der Morgen... oh, wie schwer ist jeder Morgen, wenn der ganze Tag vor einem liegt... jede Aufgabe türmt sich wie ein Berg...

descubrir que hemos logrado de un modo tan fácil algo tantas veces deseado es decepcionante. Es como si no lo hubiera estado intentando. Conseguir algo que uno quiere por pura casualidad, no, no hay en ello placer, ni sensación de éxito.

Bad luck for both of us, we are both boulder-pushers.

You are trying to put something on the page worth what it costs you to put it on the page.

treat sex as a sport and are always in pursuit of their personal best.

Is that all it means to you?" Marthe said. "To me it means there is no disease. It means it's curable, provided you root out the cause of it. Is it not worth an effort? No one would bring back a man doomed to blindness, but what if he isn't?

If you are asking, did Eloise make no effort to avoid the explosion which killed her, the answer is probably yes. If you are also asking, was I her lover, the answer is no. After all,' said Lymond, 'that would be incest.' And with a click, the door closed finally after him.