Quotes About Effort

On occasions the war was like a Ping-Pong ball. You could put fancy spin on it, you could make it dance.

No matter how long you behest, to the fruit draped tree. It will do you no best, until a shingle you free.

Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended.

Think not because you are now wed That all your courtship's at an end.

Don't wish it was easier. Wish you were better.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

No one is wise by birth, for wisdom results from one own's efforts.

Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!

I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best.

Nothing is difficult, if you seek it through your Lord; nothing is easy, if you seek it through your self.

But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon plowed into the soil for compost.

Comforting Wealth comes by good work, by wisdom it increases, cleverness stabilizes it and by patience it is preserved.

If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.

You try too hard. Winners forget they're in a race. They just love to run.

It is the path of least resistance that makes rivers and men crooked.

You must learn to translate wisdom and strong feelings into labor.

It may be the rooster that does all the crowing but it's the hen that delivers the goods.

You only get out of it what you put into it. If you are a sheep in this world, you're not going to get much out of it.

He is beginning to master wisdom when he tries to learn how not to try.

All the things that are worth doing, take time.

Remind yourself that all men assert that wisdom is the greatest good, but that there are few who strenuously seek out that greatest good.

Willing is not enough, we must do.

If one has not given everything, one has given nothing.

Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.