Quotes About Effort

Women, more often than not, do things which aren't remotely relaxing but are all about preening, which is just another sort of work.

While success takes hard work, there's something to be said for taking the path of least resistance.

I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.

The fact is,' David Lacey wrote in The Guardian, 'that failing to finish opponents off is one of the prime reasons why Tottenham, after playing some of the most attractive football, have ended the season without a prize.

According to our calculations, just to reach their 1973 standard of living, they must work 245 more hours, or 6plus extra weeks a year.'8

y al final el ridículo lo he hecho yo porque nada hay más lamentable que un hombre esforzándose por mover a otro que está muy bien como está, que se siente perfectamente en la posición que le da la gana.

Casi siempre tuve que abrir los ojos a la ceniza de un amanecer, buscar una bata fría y ver llegar la fatiga anterior a todo esfuerzo, el sabor a pizarra de un día interminable. No sé vivir sin cansancio, sin dormir; no sé por qué la noche odia mi sueño y lo combate, murciélagos afrontados sobre mi cuerpo desnudo.

Cada uno en la vida hace lo que puede. Y lo que le toca hacer…

They both started out with the basic ingredients, but it took a special touch for them to spread their wings and fly.

Each morning, before Jackie started her studies, she wrote on a clean piece of paper: Tarde venientibus ossa. To the latecomers are left the bones.

Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won't work.

You try every trick in the book to keep her. You write her letters. You quote Neruda. You cancel your Facebook. You give her the passwords to all your e-mail accounts. Because you know in your lying cheater's heart that sometimes a start is all we ever get.

I sat down next to her. Took her hand. This can work, I said. All we have to do is try.

I seem to be allergic to diligence, and Lola said, Ha. What you're allergic to is trying.

Al fin y al cabo, al éxito le encanta tener testigos, pero el fracaso no puede existir sin ellos

You breathe nonstop, like a marathon runner, but it doesn't help.

You try every trick in the book to keep her. You write her letters. You drive her to work. You quote Neruda.

Parece que soy alérgico a la actividad. Y Lola dijo: Ja, me parece más bien que eres alérgico a todo tipo de esfuerzo.

Sometimes you can be good at something that you still find really hard. Sometimes, to be good at something, you just need to keep showing the fuck up.

Sometimes this place is like a big rudeness contest, but it's worth the hassle.

I've never stopped and never ever will. But the words got tangled up somewhere between his mouth and his brain, and the moment slipped away.

A lot of life, Michael had learned, came down to trying to fix things that weren't fixable.

Life's very precious. You've got to give it 120 per cent. Just celebrate the fact that we're alive and enjoy it.

He tried again, reaching as high as he could, feeling the stitching in his jacket give way under the arms. He couldn't possibly die needing a new jacket. The Doctor gritted his teeth, ready for one last try.