Quotes About Effort

Success on earth rests on both fate and effort. One cannot change the course of destiny but heroic acts can achieve wonders;

Como é bom ter terras para plantar! Eu já estava compreendendo o valor da terra que sabe recompensar o esforço do homem. E o ventre da terra é fecundo. A terra é feminina, é a mãe da humanidade.

Few things in every-day experience are harder than just to keep pegging away at a task which seems doomed to failure, yet which we cannot in conscience abandon.

Sometimes we speak and feel too much as if 'an education' were a finished product, to be bought and paid for, often with great sacrifice, and bestowed. In reality, education can only be attained by personal effort, and should be for each a continuing process, ending only with life itself, or possibly then just well begun. There are fortunately many roads to personal culture and usefulness, and not all lead through the college campus.

In nothing that we can produce here is there at present the slightest chance of any return on our labor. Yet we keep on working -- really harder than ever. I wonder sometimes whether we are any wiser than the ants.

You have to remind kids to stay connected to the meaning of Christmas. Sometimes it takes a little bit of effort, but it's so worth it.

Some good shit happens fast (a bestselling book), and some good shit happens slow (love).

The deliberate effort of memory for small detail is a social grace that will take a person far.

Happiness takes an effort of will,

fine enough, but getting there is no pleasure." She stood with her hands

It may not be terribly fruitful to rearrange deck chairs on the Titanic, but that doesn't mean it isn't satisfying.

If you think finding the right place just happens, you've got another think.

She liked going to the gym, or rather, she liked having been to the gym, and the only way to have been was to go.

I'm not much of a distance runner, more of a sprinter.

Opening my eyes takes effort, but it's worth it to see him, right there in front of me. He's so beautiful,golden. It's so hokey, but it's how he is. He is warmth to me.

Even a true artist does not always produce art.

hard work never killed anyone... but why take a chance?

The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.

Can't anybody here play this game?

Most games are lost, not won.

Most ball games are lost, not won.

They say some of my stars drink whiskey. But I have found that the ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.

Plea to the early 1960's NY Mets. "Can't anyone here play this game?

To fly from, need not be to hate, makind All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor is it discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain.