Quotes About Effort

Keeping a website or a software program afloat is like keeping a yacht afloat. It is a black hole for attention. I

There is no way that you can change anyone else's behavior. You can only change your own and when you make a genuine effort to do that, the strangest thing happens. It allows the other people in your life to make the behavior changes you've been hoping for.

The biggest lie you'll ever tell yourself is, "I'm going to try to do that." There's no trying. There's either doing it or not doing it. Trying is a state of mind. The difference between trying and doing? The level of commitment.

Being rich, of course, meant it was easier to just keep getting what you wanted. It took less and less effort to keep it.

Fixing bugs is not making progress. You aren't paid to debug. Debugging is waste.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

There are a lot of movies I'd like to throw away. That's not to say that I went in with that attitude. Any film I ever started, I went in with all the hope and best intentions in the world, but some films just don't work.

I languish around in my life, never quite doing what I set out to do. I am tired of being a silver medalist, and tired of fighting uphill battles that I only sort of win.

Writing. It's a trivial pursuit, hardly worth the effort, inconsequential on any cosmic level. It's just blood and sweat and guts and bone hauled out of our bodies and fed through a typewriter to slosh all over the platen.

One more word of advice from an old woman, hmm?" She nodded, as if he'd spoken an agreement. "Make a determined effort to acquaint yourself with Daphne Severt's character. I'm certain it will not be easy—she has been doubly blessed with external beauty, which would distract the most mature gentleman—but for the sake of avoiding heartbreak, you must try.

But it's so hard, Papa... Those things that are most beneficial to us generally are. But they are also worth the effort.

There is no such thing as getting more than you put into anything.

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.

I've been trying to write for as long as I can remember. But those first fifteen years didn't produce much of great interest. I mean, it embarrasses me very much to look back on my early poems--very few lines of any merit at all and lots of affectation. But there were quite a lot of them. That's a point in one's favor.

How hard can it be?

Gathering wool, are we? (Ewan) Nay, merely practicing irritating you, and by the looks of your face, I'd say I'm doing a rather remarkable job of it. My mother always says that any effort worth pursuing is worth pursuing well. (Nora)

Tell me," he whispered, "why it is you alone hold no fear of me?" "I can't imagine. Surely I am foolish. Aelfa assures me you eat small children every morn to break your fast. Do you?" "Nay, I find them to be too harsh on the belly. All that moving around once they're swallowed. Not worth the effort, really." -Sin & Callie

Aelfa assures me you eat small children every morn to break your fast. Do you? (Callie) Nay, I find them to be too harsh on the belly. All that moving around once they're swallowed. Not worth the effort, really. (Sin)

Perhaps that's why they had been so happy to learn a new tongue in the first place : the self consciousness of it, the effort of it, the grammar of it, pulled you up; a new language provided distance and kept the heart intact.

She was willing to put in as much effort as necessary to discipline Ravan and bring him back to the straight and narrow. But Ravan's mute forbearance wore her down. All her life she had assumed that persistent endeavour was always followed by success. She now realized she was wrong.

I'm not out here to win a beauty contest.

Most things worth doing come with their fair share of risks

You're going to have to do better than that.