Quotes About Effort

Access is one of the great dishonest words of our times. I have had as much access to a career in professional basketball as Michael Jordan had. He just happened to play the game a lot better. Indeed, practically everybody has played the game a lot better than I did.

To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

La felicidad es aceptar la lucha, el esfuerzo, la duda y avanzar, avanzar franqueando cada obstáculo.

he understands that taking more pains to create something can add to the sheer pleasure of offering it up to the universe.

Yes, it's hard to start seeing your mother as she is, hard to push aside all the resentment and anger that you may feel and see her as another woman. Hard, but worth every bit of the effort.

I can't do it!' I wailed, half in jest. 'You are doing it.' he replied.

She sighed and shook her head. "I'm not worth yer time or effort. Truly, I'm not." "And

As for laundry, I might characterize it as approaching the moral realm; there are days when it seems a miracle to be able to make dirty things clean.

Friends, no. But I would not waste my exertions cultivating anyone as an enemy.

When you are older and have swum out into the stream of life, you'll see - there are no 'good' people, little girl. We're all trying and failing, trying too hard and failing too often. Remember that. We shouldn't judge too harshly, in the end, the sins of others.

When you are older and have swum out into the stream of life, you'll see – there are no "good" people, little girl. We're all trying and failing, trying too hard and failing too often. Remember that. We shouldn't judge too harshly, in the end, the sins of others.

We're all trying and failing, trying too hard and failing too often. Remember that. We shouldn't judge too harshly, in the end, the sins of others.

We try and we fail, like archers who aim for the target but fall short of the mark.' ... 'When you are older and have swum out into the stream of life, you'll see -- there are no "good" people, little girl. We're all trying and failing, trying too hard and failing too often. Remember that. We shouldn't judge too harshly, in the end, the sins of others.

We try and fail, like archers who aim for the target but fall short of the mark.' Eva watched as she removed the lace shawl. 'When you are older and have swum out into the stream of life, you'll see – there are no "good" people, little girl. We're all trying and failing, trying too hard and failing too often. Remember that. We shouldn't judge too harshly, in the end, the sins of others.

The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. Edgar Bergen

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things. Benjamin Franklin

If you want to catch more fish, use more hooks. —George Allen

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of the creative effort. —Franklin D. Roosevelt U.S. president

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself. —Isak Dinesen writer

Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you're still trying, keep it up! You're right on track.

Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you're still trying, keep it up! You're right on track. - Matthew Keith Groves Life

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business. - Michael J. Fox

Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe