Quotes About Effort

good looks aren't enough. Skill is the most important thing. Skill and talent.

Talking does not heal; taking action does. While it is essential to work at maintaining a positive attitude whatever your illness, healing requires dedication and commitment.

Rick pushed the cart

We are not the masters of our own destinies. We are called to plan and strategize, to work and live active lives, to attempt things that are beyond us and tackle challenges that stretch us to the limit. Yet the outcome of our efforts, even our ability to exert ourselves, is always in God's hands.

hunting for a needle in a haystack.

What all the stories and romances don't say is that happily ever after doesn't just happen. You have to work at it. You have to keep working at it.

Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.

Coborâtul este partea cea mai grea din orice c???rare.

we must remember that we all make the things of this earth of value because of labor.

Neither task appealed to a man of his temperament. One required action and the other thought. Both were anathematical to Constable Mason. His working life had been centered around the skillful 'referral to higher authority' of anything involving any effort.

people who say its a long story, mean it's a stupid short one that they are too embarrassed and couldn't be bothered to tell

Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

Why can't people just be really good at something? Why do they have to be the best at something?

the more you try to simplify things, the more you complicate them.

The heart knew that something was missing and it was having to work extra hard to make up for it.

If you have a dream, you want to at least be able to try to achieve it in some way. Something that is seemingly beyond your grasp but that you know that with a bit of hard work you could possibly achieve.

He was too detached from the family to start trying in one evening to check himself into a place where there was currently no vacancy.

don't act like I didn't for you. I did. Hard. And for a long time. So please, forgive me if now that we're over, I'm exhausted.

She didn't want to be one of those girls who said the exact opposite of what she meant, but still—it would have been nice to see Easy try.

About accidents we do not have many choices. Our job is to make better the world God gave us. We are partners with God. One day you will understand. We have to work hard to make it a good world. But it is not an impossible job.

a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of life is nothing, But the man who lves that span, he is something… A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life. It is hard work to fill one's life with meaning.

It would have made me a whore to leave it incomplete. It would have made it easier to leave future work incomplete. It would have made it more and more difficult to draw upon that additional aching surge of effort that is always the difference between integrity and deceit in a created work.

It's in the tilting and thrashing that we wangle our luck.

My mouth was dry as cotton and my head hurt like hell. I tried to lift it, and the effort left me shaken and nauseated. I satisfied myself with just shifting my eyes around. I thought of all the books I'd read, all the mysteries. Spencer wouldn't have ended up this way. Neither would Kinsey Milhone. Or Henry O. Or Stephanie Plum, Well, yeah, maybe Stephanie Plum.