Quotes About Effort

I tried--I swear I tried. But you didn't want to hear what I was saying, and I used that as an excuse to let it go on.

Do what you don't want to do to get what you want to get.

You can use the same motto for everything in life. If you put that effort in, you'll get what you want.

Momentum,' She repeats. 'You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run.

When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through physical gesture.

Yes. I tried to use the same technique with you. I didn't want to pass out.

I like Americans. They always make an effort when they meet you. They want to be liked and to like you; it is always easy to be with them.

People asked me what I want as an epitaph: 'He tried'

Do any exercise you want as long as you're willing to do it. You see gym equipment on TV advertisements all the time, but guess what? It's only good if you actually use it.

In a world that's ugly and a lie, it's hard to even want to try.

I remember I used to come up to my teacher crying because I couldn't read. She would say: 'You can do this. You just don't want to do this.

On God for all events depend; You cannot want when God's your friend. Weigh well your part and do your best; Leave to your Maker all the rest.

In my Olympic history I don't think I have achieved my potential as an athlete. That's what I want when I look back at my career. I want to be able to say I gave it my best shot.

Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise, for the result is waste of time and general stagnation.

From the outset of the war, the Canadian people have clearly shown that it is their desire to help in every way to make Canadas war effort as effective as possible.

Every painting is a war. You have to struggle every day, and to struggle every day with your inadequacies is a damn nuisance.

Concentrate your energy and hoard your strength.

Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

Four elements make up the climate of war: danger, exertion, uncertainty and chance.

He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid.

Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.

The reason that so many times we don't win the battle is that we never show up for the war!

Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.