Quotes About Effort

Happiness is in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Boxing's not that straightforward," said Eldric. "You can practice and practice, but the real experience will always be different. Lots of things are like that, actually.

Ich gebe mir Müh, nichts zu wollen, zu denken.

The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.

The first is that learning to preach is difficult, and the difficulty is not greatly relieved by having a skilled instructor or by the discovery that one seems to be naturally a "good talker.

I'm proud of you for the times you came in second, or third, or fourth, but what you did was the best you have ever done

Try your best to make goodness attractive. That's one of the toughest assignments you'll ever be given.

It's not easy to keep trying, But it's one good way to grow. It's not easy to keep learning, But I know that this is so: When you've tried and learned You're bigger than you were a day ago. It's not easy to keep trying, But it's one way to grow.

Some days, doing "the best we can" may still fall short of what we would like to be able to do, but life isn't perfect—on any front—and doing what we can with what we have is the most we should expect of ourselves or anyone else.

Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime's work, but it's worth the effort.

I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

in police work ninety-nine percent of the effort is routine, unspectacular enquiry, checking and double-checking, laboriously building up a web of parts until the parts become a whole, the whole becomes a net, and the net finally encloses the criminal with a case that will not just make headlines but stand up in court. He

tejido. Nada. El jersey de cuello de tortuga que había llevado el hombre fue tarea

This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps.

Teachers work twice as hard as the general public will ever imagine.

From word to deed is a great space.

There is no flying without wings.

I have been trying. For over two years, I've been trying. I continue to try. Why do you always imply it's something I have the power to change?

The difficult is what takes a little time, the impossible is what takes a little longer.

Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

Life always gets harder toward the summit—the cold increases, responsibility increases.

The doer alone learneth.