Quotes About Effort

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

[Tolerance] is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Man is a gaming animal. He must be always trying to get the better in something or other.

God sells knowledge for labour - honour for risk.

It is no rest to be idle.

Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

Little wit in the head makes much work for the feet.

I feel as though there are things that I'm trying to do - you know, capturing truthfully some aspect of human experience - and I'm trying really hard not to be fake. And in writing, as in life, it's harder than you think.

It is to be deeply regretted that the clergymen would oppose an effort to teach the people the Bible truths; nevertheless, we find much opposition everywhere, and many clergymen will attempt to prevent the people from reading what is here written.

I'm not perfect; I make mistakes all the time. All I can do is to try my best to learn from my mistakes, take responsibility for them, and do a better job tomorrow.

I'm not perfect but I always try to give of my best.

The most important thing is to try to do your best.

The only failure is not to try.

I try to make it look easy, but the behind-the-scenes stuff is the challenge.

You never know what you can do till you try.

I'm not a good dancer, but I try. I don't really have the moves.

No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.

I'm a little bit of an eternal optimist. People always say to me, 'If you go do this and it fails, what are you going to do?' I don't care. I'm going to give it my best shot. That's what I'm going to do. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. And I'll try again.

Progress requires setbacks; the only sure way to avoid failure is not to try.

In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

You've just got to keep going through the tough times and try your best every time you play.

As long as you try your best, that is all that matters. You don't have to be the fastest runner or top of the class.