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Quotes About Effort

T]he whole point is the wishing and remembering--not if what you want happens, not if remembering hurts. Because when you wish for something, you're askin. And when you ask, you're trying. And all anyone can do really is try, right?
~ Melissa Senate
Work at learning to have fun. Apply yourself with dedication to learning enjoyment. Work as hard at learning to have fun as you did at feeling miserable.
~ Melody Beattie
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
~ Menander
Mereka yang tekun bekerja, tidak pernah kecewa, sebab semua tercapai dengan kegigihan dan kerja keras.
~ Menander of Athens
I'm tired of having to struggle for what seems to come easily to everyone else.
~ Mercedes Lackey
Humans given no incentive to do more . . . generally will not.
~ Mercedes Lackey
Do what you can, do everything that you can, do it to the best of your ability, and leave the rest to fate. Or the gods. Or random luck. Your choice.
~ Mercedes Lackey
Do what you can, do everything that you can, do it to the best of your ability, and leave the rest to fate. Or
~ Mercedes Lackey
Do what you can, do everything that you can, do it to the best of your ability, and leave the rest to fate.
~ Mercedes Lackey
The reasons for bearing young should simply be love and respect for the incipient child, and for the world they will be born into. If it took more effort to produce a child than the exercise of a moment's lust, perhaps there might be less misery in this world. Perhaps my gryphons will be happier creatures than their creator.
~ Mercedes Lackey
I wanted to work hard. I wanted to prove myself somehow worthy of the good things I had known.
~ Bear Grylls
But, that guy who quit also missed the real point. Good things come through grit and hard work, and all things worthwhile have a cost. In the case of the SAS, the cost was somewhere around a thousand barrels of sweat.
~ Bear Grylls
The DS had told us the parameters – run, you pass; walk, you fail.
~ Bear Grylls
And when it comes to life and mountains, it is really very simple: what we put in is what we get out. And in order to get, we first have to give.
~ Bear Grylls
Few people try, because few people dare. And most don't want to give up on the easy.
~ Bear Grylls
Life is quite simple: you only get out of it what you put in.
~ Bear Grylls
Trying often comes before failure. Endeavour more often leads to success. But they are just words, I hear you say. Why does it matter whether we say 'try' or 'endeavour'? It matters, believe me. Our words become our attitudes and our attitudes become our life.
~ Bear Grylls
The greater the effort, the better the reward. So learn to embrace hard work and great effort and risk. Without them, there can be no meaningful achievement.
~ Bear Grylls
herself for such a place—something between a sweat shop and a mortuary. Instead, she caught
~ Becky Lee Weyrich
In patriarchal culture men are especially inclined to see love as something they should receive without expending effort. More often than not they do not want to do the work that love demands. When the practice of love invites us to enter a place of potential bliss that is at the same time a place of critical awakening and pain, many of us turn our backs on love.
~ bell hooks
In truth, true love is all about work.
~ bell hooks
Within white supremacist capitalist culture in the United States there has been a concentrated effort to bury the history of the black farmer.
~ bell hooks
It's not what you do but that kind of job you do that makes the difference.
~ Ben Carson
When we have done our best, we also have to learn that we still need to rely on God. Our best — no matter how good — is incomplete if we leave God out of the picture.
~ Ben Carson