Quotes About Effort

Las cosas fluyen hacia donde tiene que fluir y por más que te esfuerces e intentes hacerlos lo mejor posible, cuando llega el momento de herir a alguien lo hieres. La vida es así. Parece que está aleccionandote, pero ya es hora de que aprendas a vivir de este modo.

Al poner demasiado empeño en olvidar, sólo recuerdo; ¿por qué, cuando uno trata de olvidar, no olvida?

Friendship is not a gift, but is the result of hard work.

Frenchwomen always give one to understand that arranging themselves is full-time work.

It only shows, said Aunt Sadie, that nothing really matters the least bit, so why make these fearful efforts to keep alive? Oh, but it's the efforts that one enjoys so much, said Davey...

There's a considerable distance between seeking perfection and irretrievable haste

No one had made her talk to me, or be in my company. I couldn't understand why she would have gone to the trouble just to be unpleasant.

I'd been trying really hard not to learn their names, but it wasn't going very well

Well, I don't know, yet, the dragonet said, but I mean to find a way: just because the business will be difficult is no excuse for not making the attempt.

No matter how hard you've worked, there's always something to worry about.

In short, he tried to teach me as best he could, and to advise me in my blundering through my new forest, though it was foreign country to him. He did still resent my success, not from jealousy but as a matter of principle: it offended his sense of the proper order of things that my slapdash workings did work, and he scowled as much when I was doing well as when I had made some evident mistake.

It certainly went quicker to throw money away than to make it

En zo begon het hortend en stotend over de startbaan te rollen als een half afgebouwd vliegtuig dat letterlijk door een aantal mensen omhoog en bijeen werd gehouden terwijl anderen nog de wielen, de vleugels en de stoelen aan het monteren waren en de stuurinstallatie en de motor op orde probeerden te brengen, terwijl weer anderen er met de bagage in hun armen achteraan renden.

Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat.

The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe.

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Power is organized effort, as has already been stated! Success is based upon power!

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Organized effort is produced through the coordination of effort of two or more people, who work toward a definite end, in a spirit of harmony.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

Seldom does an individual enter upon highly creative effort in any field of endeavor before the age of forty. The average man reaches the period of his greatest capacity to create between forty and sixty

Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

Failure is not a disgrace if you have sincerely done your best.

Life has no bargains. Everything that you get that's worthy of having has a price upon it.