Quotes About Effort

You need mountains, long staircases don't make good hikers.

There's no such thing as perfect. Chasing ''Perfect'' is the shortest road to not achieving it.

Perfection is not to be attained, but to be pursued infinitely.

Perfection is a thousand mistakes behind curtains.

Why is this so hard?" I whispered.His pulse leaped crazily at my admission. "Everything worth fighting for is hard.

I tried.Can't do it.Brain's empty.

It takes more effort to avoid the truth than it does to face it.

do-it-yourself-with-lots-of-rough-edges-who-cares-we-tried spirit

A band should only think national," he told Boston Rock. "Selling records to a local market is a hobby, like making records for your friends. It doesn't justify the cost and effort.

Mirror sighed. I believe everyone deserves a happily ever after. But I think that happy endings don't just happen by accident- you can't wait for one. You have to make them happen.

She had been an exhausting woman to love. But he had loved her no less passionately for the hard work.

And yet in her eyes there was something unreadable, something that did not want to be read, the determined blankness that in predator animals conceals hostile calculation, and in prey forms part of an overwhelming effort to seem to have disappeared.

This effort had, in fact, come to represent a necessary counterbalance to the daily trial of mere coping, a hopeful inoculation against its wasting effects.

Literary talent is an accident of birth, like the ability to spot four-leaf clovers, and about as meaningful in the absence of hard work.

grappling in a hernia truss with steel kegs of Yuengling. For

I fully acknowledge that it is easier to knock something down than to build it in the first place. But

Aronson split off to go back to work on

True justice was the brass ring just out of reach.

luck could be a fleeting thing. It had to be earned and then guarded with everything you had.

Murphy personificada, tío. Tras un esfuerzo gigantesco, Bosch logró alzar la vista hacia Rourke.

Whatever it is you seek, you have to put in the time, the practice, the effort. You must give up a lot to get it. It has to be very important to you. And once you have attained it, it is your power. It can't be given away : it resides in you. It is literally the result of your discipline.

Most kinds of power require a substantial sacrifice by whoever wants the power…Whatever it is you seek, you have to put in the time, the practice, the effort. You must give up a lot to get it. It has to be very important to you. And once you've attained it, it is your power. It can't be given away: it resides in you." Ian Malcolm—Jurassic Park

We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change the world, despite our gifts and our unstinting efforts, our most extravagant hopes. We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep--it's as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out of windows or drown themselves or take pills; more die by accident; and most of us, the vast majority, are slowly devoured by some disease or, if we're very fortunate, by time itself.

a full week of their mother's quiet fury over the fun they don't seem to be having and their father's dogged attempts to provide it...