Quotes About Effort

I want you to learn that you cannot have anything without working for it. The only way you can be taken advantage of is if you think you can get something for nothing.

Can I do it? I'd rather not try and fail. That's stupid talk, Maya. Every try will not succeed. But if you're going to live, live at all, your business is trying. And if you fail once, so what? Old folks say, Every shuteye ain't sleep and every goodbye ain't gone. You fail, you get up and try again.

Give it everything you've got. I've told you many times, 'Can't do is like Don't Care.' Neither of them have a home.

Preparation is rarely easy and never beautiful.

A person must make the effort to learn, and growing is the inevitable reward of learning.

On my way out of the house one morning she said, "Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait." Another time she reminded me that "God helps those who help themselves.

That's what you want to do? Then nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything you've got. I've told you many times, 'Can't do is like Don't Care.' Neither of them have a home. Translated, that meant there was nothing a person can't do, and there should be nothing a human being didn't care about. It was the most positive encouragement I could have hoped for.

I washed walls, polished door knobs and the tiny window. The scales and stench of defeat floated into the pail's dirty water.

A smile struggled free and limped across his lips.

When access to a better life has been denied often enough, and successfully enough, one can use the rejection as an excuse to cease all efforts [...] And if I do nothing, I have every right to my idleness, for, after all, haven't I tried?

Easy reading is damn hard writing." —

Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait

The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned, pricks most deeply and draws more blood.

This is hard... Never said it would be easy. Nothing good ever is.' -- Josie & Ash

Nothing good is ever easy. Or worth it.

Falling in love is the easy part. It's everything else that happens afterward that's hard and takes work.

I love you, Faith. Lord knows I've tried not to.

Nothing worth having is ever easy. And you don't get things without fighting for them.

Never said it would be easy. Nothing good ever is.

Though I imagine in your case, trying not to fall just made you fall harder.

I don't know why the world has to be populated by so many unpleasant people. I really don't. It really takes an effort to be rude, too. The amount of energy people expend on being a jerk astounds me sometimes.

Itulah, aku sadar, yang harus mulai kulakukan: berhenti berharap punya bakat yang lebih, dan mulai menggunakan bakat yang kumiliki sebaik mungkin.

not a portal back to Danville. He pressed the button again and again

It's up to you how far you go. If you don't try, you'll never know." —Merlin, The Sword in the Stone