Quotes About Effort

Life is such an effort, Child. It's a war that is renewed each day, and its moments of joy are brief parentheses for which you pay a cruel price.

The whole economy of this lower world proves that it is by labor and perseverance only that good is obtained and evil is avoided.

War vies with magic in its efforts to get something for nothing.

As her lungs pumped and her head cleared, she wondered if all the effort she'd put into blotting out the pain had deadened her ability to feel pleasure, too. What a shame. What a loss.

This is a real pain in the neck," said Brandon M., wearing a yoke to carry two buckets of water.

If you want me, you'll have to earn me. And, mister, I don't come cheap.

He stopped to rest at a cart selling nuts and candy, bought himself some Jelly Belly's, flirted just enought with the Mexican cutie working there to convince her pull out the banana-flavored one. Although he liked his Jelly Belly's mixed up, he didn't like banana, but, since it took too much effort to pull them out himself, he generally tried to talk someone else into doing it. If that didn't work, he just ate 'em. - Kenny Traveler

We're all works in progress, honey. And believe me when I tell you that I've had to work harder than most.

There was something about a man with a shovel, and the sweat on his neck might as well have been chocolate sauce. It wasn't fair. Brains and brawns should be two separate categories, not bundled into one irresistible package. She needed to pull herself together before she went after him with a spoon. But where to start?

Ve?i je grijeh bio ne pokušati nego ne uspjeti.

Somos todos obras inacabadas, pequeña. Y créeme cuando te digo que he tenido que trabajar más duro que la mayoría. -Creo que ha hecho un buen trabajo.

Perder no es tan malo como dejar de luchar

Anything worth having is worth fighting for.

You can learn, but you've got to give yourself time to pick up the basics, to practice, and maybe even to fail once or twice.

Well, thank you, ma'am," he said still breathing hard, his heated body sleek with sweat, his smile angelic. "We … try.

All good things are possible if you try hard and stay stylish.

I don't do effortless myself, but I like it in other people.

Nothing worth having comes without a price.

What drives pure reason to efforts that seem to have neither end nor result?

inexhaustible effort that philosophers devote to a subject that brings no results.

how necessary, and how full of hope it is to collect these books and manuscripts and preserve them. It declares that all these stories matter, and so does every effort to create something that connects us to one another, and to our past and to what is still to come.

It declares that all these stories matter, and so does every effort to create something that connects us to one another, and to our past and to what is still to come.

Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in the practice. It does take work and it ain't easy - but man, the rewards!

Everybody works . . . . That's what life is. Work and a little play and a lot of prayer.