Quotes About Effort

Creativity comes with that little bit of extra effort.

If you perfect your skills, you won't have to depend on breaks - someone will discover you. Breaks are tremendously overrated. Its not the breaks. The way to succeed in anything is to be good at it and to keep getting better.

It is the struggle itself that is most important. We must strive to be more than we are. It does not matter that we will not reach our ultimate goal. The effort itself yields its own reward.

hefted the pickaxe and attacked the three-inch-thick layer of gray-white ice. Frozen chips and droplets of water speckled his face as he swung the chopping tool. He pushed and scooted the bigger chunks to the edge of the trough with the pickaxe, then gritted his

She'd been trying to improve her written Korean from appalling to merely bad.

Nobody knows how things will turn out, that's why they go ahead and play the game...You give it your all and sometimes amazing things happen, but it's hardly ever what you expect.

Now I understand. When you love someone, you have to try things even if they don't make sense to anyone else.

Right when I was about to serve (which was traumatic enough, because I am even worse at volleyball than I am at Jenga),

For he that naught n' assaieth, naught n' acheveth.

The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne,Th' assay so hard, so sharp the conquerynge.

Nowher so bisy a man as he ther nas,And yet he semed bisier than he was.

Myn be the travaille, and thyn be the glorie!

The wrastling for this world axeth a fal.

The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.

In general, Americans would walk a mile uphill in the rain to avoid pain, unless the walk could be shorter and level and the day sunny, which they'd prefer.

Indeed if they ever once saw the endless supply of eternal opportunities The Adversary offers them every temporal moment of day after day of their fuddled little lives, they would stagger at the sheer industry and prodigality of His efforts. Conversely, if they ever gained a glimpse of how their ordinary actions actually effect and shape things not only under time but without, the very vast weight of that would almost certainly end in their becoming humble.

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

Greatness has nothing to do with results or with success.

The only literary men are those who have to work at it.

We may have given to us, in this life, a few things that will give us satisfaction, temporally; but the things that are eternal, the things that are "worth while", are those eternal things that we reach out for, and prepare ourselves to receive, and lay hold of by the effort that we individually make.

Success is what you do with your ability. It's how you use your talent.

Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day.

To be successful, work hard; and when things get tough, work harder.

When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work.