Quotes About Effort

Preparation is never time wasted. You cannot have great recitals, if you have poor rehearsals.

You can't get better without sacrifice. It requires a tolerance to discomfort.

Change can only made when a sincere effort is put forth.

The people who succeed the most are the people who have failed the most, because they are people who have tried the most.

If I won the award for laziness, I'd send somebody to pick it up for me.

It's a slow process, but quitting won't speed it up.

Everybody loves some fun, back-breaking manual labor!

the best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile

All of us, regardless of the circumstances we find ourselves in, can make a conscious effort to search for possibilities around and within ourselves.

the best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.

I believe you can only be lucky if you start out being very good

So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output.

Originalmente, para alguien de tan escaso talento y capacidad como yo, quizás habría sido una osadía tratar de ganarme el sustento como escritor. Si la tragedia me impidiera vivir y me dejara sin aliento, no habría nada más que hacer. Sin embargo, mientras me quede algo de vida, obviamente quiero dedicar a ello todas mis fuerzas.

I wanted to tell her that being loved is a talent too, that it takes as much guts and as much work as loving; that some people, for whatever reason, never learn the knack

That kind of friendship doesn't just materialize at the end of the rainbow one morning in a soft-focus Hollywood haze. For it to last this long, and at such close quarters, some serious work had gone into it. Ask any ice-skater or ballet dancer or show jumper, anyone who lives by beautiful moving things: nothing takes as much work as effortlessness.

All's you can do is your best," he says. "Sometimes it doesn't work out the way you intend it to. You just gotta keep doing it anyway.

I put my time and energy into bringing answers, not hugs and hot chocolate.

nothing takes as much work as effortlessness.

Everything about her is pure faultless middle-class–the accent, the clothes, the hair, the china patterns, it's as if she ordered herself from a catalogue–but you can see the incredible effort that goes into every second of it.

my friends and I were all poor together; it had very little to recommend it, but at least it had involved less effort.

No matter how good you are, this world is always going to be better at this game.

couldn't see fit to put more effort into this pretense. And Chris most likely because

You were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort to be connected.

Life, people learned, was not easy. Life was not cake. Life was not a carrot cake.