Quotes About Effort

The reward for toil had been more toil. If you dug the best ditches, they gave you a bigger shovel.

There have been better attempts at marching, and they have been made by penguins.

Do not seek perfection. None exists. All we can do is strive.

Death stood alone, watching the wheat dance in the wind. Of course, it was only a metaphor. People were more than corn. They whirled through tiny crowded lives, driven literally by clock work, filling their days from edge to edge with the sheer effort of living. And all lives were exactly the same length. Even the very long and very short ones. From the point of view of eternity, anyway.

She was a beefy young woman and, whatever piece of music she was playing, it was definitely losing.

She prowled the city on moonlit nights, and OK, there was the occasional chicken, but she always remembered where she'd been and went round the next day to shove some money under the door. It was hard to be a vegetarian who had to pick bits of meat out of her teeth in the morning. She was definately on top of it, though. It was easy to be a vegetarian by day. It was preventing yourself from becoming a humanitarian at night that took the real effort.

He put more effort into avoiding work than most people put into hard labor.

Look, how about this? Let's pretend we've had the row and I've won. See? It saves a lot of effort.

Having to haul around extra poundage was far too much effort, so he saw to it that he never put it on and he kept himself in trim because doing things with decent muscles was far less effort than trying to achieve things with bags of flab.

Have you heard the saying 'The reward you get for digging holes is a bigger shovel'?

But can't you just wave your hand and make all the dirt fly away, then? [...] That works, but only if you wave them about on the floor with a scrubbing brush.

Really, you might make an effort. Honestly, I don't know what's the matter with all of you! I do, Tiffany thought. You're like a dog worrying sheep all the time. You don't give them time to obey you and you don't let them know when they've done things right. You just keep barking.

he'd experienced the lovely warm feeling of a bad job well done.

You are aware, are you, that painting a few stars on a perfectly ordinary broomstick doesn't mean it will get airborne?

If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing badly," said Granny, fleeing into aphorisms, the last refuge of an adult under siege.

I wanted Bird Dog to play that game like I wanted a sack of hammers across the jaw.

I believe one has to get one's hand dirty or you're nothing but a hobbyist.

Mutlu sonlar kendiliÄŸinden gelmez.Bazen bunun için çaba harcamak gerekir.

Law of Reversed Effect. The harder you try to remember something, the less likely it is you'll be able to recall it.

My job was to take care of that man, and I've got nothing to show for it. I might as well do the same work and get paid.

Doing your best is the surest way to remind those around you to do their best.

Unwholesome action, hurting self, comes easily. Wholesome action, healing self, takes effort.

every person who is burning time and energy seeking justification is doing so at the expense of the contribution he or she could be making to the overall results of the company.

What's the purpose of our efforts at work?" "To achieve results together