Quotes About Effort

she thought about what happily-ever-afters were about, and decided that true love didn't mean effortless, and ever-after wasn't about cruise control. You started with the attraction, and then you opened your heart and your soul—but all that, which was no small

eaning down, it became amply clear that Rhamp had deployed the hot bomb. And Qhuinn had to admit, as he undid the buckle and got the kid back out, that he kind of respected the effort, man to man. Yeah, no pussy loads for his son. The boy dropped that shit like he owned it. Um … literally. Yeah.

Luck is like a cat." Susan wagged her forefinger at him, as if she were correcting a child who should know better. "The more you go after it, the more it eludes you. You can chase what doesn't want you, but you only catch what chooses to be in your palm.

You're wasting your time on me. Might as well go find another girl to charm.

Relationships are tough. And sometimes, one side has to do a lot of work. - Playing To Win

You can't win unless you try to win, but you can lose by trying not to lose.

It is impossible to consistently outperform the market by using any information that the market already knows.

Don't waste your time wishing for things you don't have. Do your best with what you do have.

is easier to maintain a level of fitness than it was to achieve that fitness.

Look at that party the other night. Everybody wanted to have a good time and tried real hard but we all woke up the next day feeling sorta sad and separate.

I'm back in these regions of fumbling dark uncertain creation, but it's my one and only world, and I'll do the best I can.

Look at that party the other night. Everybody wanted to have a good time and tried real hard but we all woke up the next day feeling sorta sad and separate. What do you think about death, Ray?

Sam widzia?e?, jak si? szarpa?em i urabia?em sobie ty?ek, ?eby wyj?? z twarz?, ale sam wiesz, ?e to si? nie liczy, bo obaj wiemy, co to czas... jak go spowalnia?.

It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild. (Ch.1)

To have a full stomach, to daze lazily in the sunshine--such things were remuneration in full for his adors and toils, while his ardors and toils were in themselves self-remunerative. They were expressions of life, and life is always happy when it is expressing itself.

Martin heaved a sigh of relief when the door closed behind the laundryman. He was becoming anti-social. Daily he found it a severer strain to be decent with people. Their presence perturbed him, and the effort of conversation irritated him. They made him restless, and no sooner was he in contact with them than he was casting about for excuses to get rid of them.

It is not in what you succeed in doing that you get your joy, but in the doing of it. 

Merely because you have got something to say that may be of interest to others does not free you from making all due effort to express that something in the best possible medium and form. [ Letter to Max E. Feckler , Oct. 26, 1914]

It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life.  It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild.

He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish.

In short, the things he did were done because it was easier to do them than not to do them.

It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. 

I've been competitive since day one. Even in little things as a child, like having a twin and a direct competitor for who makes better cookies.

Comedy, not screaming at someone, can make someone lift their legs higher. There is a way to do a push-up and a sit-up, and it doesn't have to be so complicated. Everyone is putting a difficult twist to it and making you do way too much.