Quotes About Effort

Running through airports with pounds of luggage - that's a good workout.

Working with heart, then enjoy our time.

Flying from the U.S. to Tokyo takes approximately as long as law school.

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.

I wear myself out trying to render the orange trees so that they're not stiff but like those I saw by Botticelli in Florence. It's a dream that won't come true.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

The ripest peach is highest on the tree

I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.

If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

I said to them last week that I'd like them to win ugly and they certainly won ugly today. That was the ugliest thing I've seen since the ugly sisters fell out of the ugly tree.

I wish it grew on trees, but it takes hard work to make money.

Each day is a branch of the Tree of Life laden heavily with fruit. If we lie down lazily beneath it, we may starve; but if we shake the branches, some of the fruit will fall for us.

The fruits of life fall into the hands of those who climb the tree and pick them.

When I was young they used to say people only threw stones at the tree that was loaded with fruit.

First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.

How vainly men themselves amaze, / To win the palm, the oak, or bays; / And their incessant labours see / Crowned from some single herb or tree.

He's in the mold of a Tom Watson, in that he'll hit the ball in the trees and undaunted go it there, flail it out and make something out of it.

Everyone knows an ant, can't, move a rubber tree plant.

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

What are you up to?" "I was trying to climb that tree. But I fell. Now I'm bored.

Most people confuse wishing and wanting with pursuing. You must place your trust in action.

I realize I had to learn ... to stop chasing the perishable prizes of this earth ... and give my best effort unto God and trust Him with the results.

I am unlikely to trust a sentence that comes easily.