Quotes About Effort

To join a great club is nice and all, but you have to play the games.

I've always said, when you join a club like United, it's a tough place to play at. But if you play and train and give 100%, then get your opportunity - I've always said you always get your opportunity there.

I joined Sunderland, a great club, to be successful, to feel at home again. It hasn't worked out, but that's not through lack of effort.

Once I failed in cricket, I joined a law course, but when it also did not work out, it was another setback. When you get back-to-back failures, you automatically start to work harder in life.

When I joined Arsenal in 2000 I learned a lot from Dennis Bergkamp. He was the mind of the team and he made things look easy.

Housekeeping ain't no joke.

The Joker,' I made the album in 17 days and it was my last shot.

Among various joys, the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

for some of us, one mile can be more to walk than thirty.

The result is often disappointing, but the process is highly exciting.

For better it is to make a beginning of that which may lead to something, than to engage in a perpetual struggle and pursuit in courses which have no exit.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

By breaking the link between individual effort and reward, collectivization undermined incentives to work, leading to mass famines in Russia and China, and severely reducing agricultural productivity.

A man has only so much knowledge as he puts to work.

The growth of New England was a result of the aggregate efforts of a busy multitude, each in his narrow circle toiling for himself, to gather competence or wealth. The expansion of New France was the achievement of a gigantic ambition striving to grasp a continent. It was a vain attempt.

Our most successful bubbles, our only successful ones are doubtless those that are the least worked. For can one work on a bubble? Surely not, - unless (carefully) with the very breath that gives it birth. It is only necessary to blow it with an even enough breath, with just the right pretentiousness, a movement of the soul at once measured and persistent, yet not too much so - until it detaches itself quasi-spontaneously from the pipe.

We spend our midday sweat, our midnight oil; We tire the night in thought, the day in toil.

Relationships are a never-ending work in progress.

A task begun is easier than a task contemplated;

who seeks shall find; Who sits with folded hands or sleeps is blind.

La muerte trabaja a largo plazo.

Give form to your vision. Disregard the fact that it appears to entail efforts. Express what you have inside and communicate it everywhere.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

We are a big country, with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time... to ask for an effort in the battle against debt.