Quotes About Effort

She was struggling, as she always had struggled, not to show what she could do but to hide what she couldn't do. A life made up of advances that were actually frantic retreats and victories that were concealed defeats.

Mark my words, there will be an intensive effort to privatize Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid.

You don't have to swing hard to hit a home run. If you got the timing, it'll go.

I tell the kids, somebody's gotta win, somebody's gotta lose. Just don't fight about it. Just try to get better.

We spend most of the time searching for love, but once we get what we want, we stop working, but the real work still has to be done.

What are you working on?" Mr. K. was asked. Mr. K. replied: "I'm having a hard time; I'm preparing my next mistake.

Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government's confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?

Sto lavorando duro per preparare il mio prossimo errore.

what is work? Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first one is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid.

finding the time to practice takes a little effort and thought. For many of us, already feeling maxed out in terms of time constraints, being told that we need to set aside more time five days a week to do something else is in itself stressful. As you make your wellness and wholeness a priority, you will find it becomes easier to protect your practice by creating a special place and time in which to work on yourself.

If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.

After that, work and hope. But never hope more than you work

And Lord did I push, for thee more hours I pushed, I pushed so hard I shat, Pushed so hard blood vessels burst in my neck and in my chest, pushed so hard my asshole turned inside-out like a rosebud.

Nobody knows (for real, for true) how hard someone is trying.

Heartbreak is more common than happiness. No one wants to say that, but it's true. We're taught to believe not only that everyone deserves a happy ending, but also that if we try hard enough, we will get one. That's simply not the case. Happy endings, lifelong loves, are the products of both effort and luck. We can control them, to some extent, and though our feelings always seem to have a life of their own, we can at least be open to love.

I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.

You have to work for everything. Marriage should not be any different.

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for any lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Keep in mind that life produces no maestros, only students of varying shades of ineptitude.

Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.

I was almost to the top, so I took a deep breath, and grabbed onto the edge of the desk. Then I PULLED-PULLED-PULLED myself up and there I was, sitting on top of the tall desk along with stacks of books, a telephone, a computer and several pencils.

it was difficult to stay upright. Once rolling, the oxen were as

A thing that is worth doing at all is worth doing badly... le mieux est l'ennemi du bien.

They'd also considered themselves distinct enough from the rest of the Blacks in the country to have met with Lincoln during the war in an effort to have themselves declared a separate class and thus eligible for the rights inherent in such a designation, but the effort had failed.