Quotes About Effort

Aucun volume gros et durable ne pourra jamais être écrit sur la puce ; bien que beaucoup s'y soient essayés

I abominate all honorable respectable toils, trials, and tribulations of every kind whatsoever.

Thus, some minds for ever keep trimming boat.

El alba pone al hombre en camino, y lo pone también a trabajar.

As with most situations in my life, Emery's dress was much harder to get out of than it had been to get into.

The science books are right about potential. It's easier to lose it than to get it back.

There is no greater fame for a man than that which he wins with his footwork or the skill of his hands.

A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.

What greater glory attends a man, while he's alive, than what he wins with his racing feet and striving hands?

He who jumps for the moon and gets it not leaps higher than he who stoops for a penny in the mud.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

Arrivés à ce point, nous nous trouvons devant une question très troublante. Désirons-nous vraiment agir ? Est-ce que la majorité de la population estime qu'il vaut bien la peine de faire des efforts considérables pour arrêter et si possible renverser la tendance actuelle vers le contrôle totalitaire et intégral ?

And even a small amount of talent can go an appallingly long way, these days.

Civilization depends on continually making the effort, of never giving in. It needs to be cared for by men of goodwill, protected from the dark.

He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.

Bond liked fast cars and he liked driving them. Most American cars bored him. ... All the fun of driving had been taken out of them with the abolition of a gear-change... All effort had been smoothed away and all of that close contact with the machine and the road that extracts skill and nerve from the European driver.

Bond didn't defend the practice. He simply maintained that the more effort and ingenuity you put into gambling, the more you took out.

He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure Ã¢â'¬â€œ the pain of failure that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.

Work - the ultimate badge of health.

Now human blubber draped his efforts.

We have many shelves of poetry at home, but still, it takes an effort to step out of the daily narrative of existence, draw that neglected cloak of stillness around you — and concentrate, if only for three or four minutes. Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.

As with alchemy, it's never the result that matters; it's the time spent on the process, the discipline of repetition.

Now climb, young grasshopper, so your Kung Fu won't be weak.

We should clap or something. Curran said. She's trying so hard.