Quotes About Effort

order for mindfulness to work for us, we need to make an effort to strengthen our ability to be mindful.

put the least effort into dealing with a disturbing feeling that will do the job.

more success tattooing a soap bubble

Women's work is never easy, never clean.

There are too many loose ends in the world in need of knots. You can't attend to all of them, but you have to try.

yellow frock with puffed sleeves and an empire waist had seemed elegant on the pattern envelope. She didn't care much for the finished product, but having spent too much time tracing the pattern and reinforcing buttonholes, she couldn't just throw it away because of a puckered neckline and an unflattering cut.

You got to work with the god you were given.

[W]hen you're dealing with stress, the problem may not be the stressful situation, as much as the effort to avoid that situation and the feelings it arouses.

Sex isn't what makes a relationship real; the willingness to expend effort maintaining it is.

Some lovers break up with each other the first time they have a big argument; some parents do as little for their children as they can get away with; some pet owners ignore their pets whenever they become inconvenient. In all of those cases, the people are unwilling to make an effort. Having a real relationship, whether with a lover or a child or a pet, requires that you be willing to balance the other party's wants and needs with your own.

Being pretty is fundamentally a passive quality; even when you work at it, you're working at being passive.

Based on our experience with human minds, it takes at least twenty years of steady effort to produce a useful person, and I see no reason that teaching an artificial being would go any faster.

I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again.

Far and away the best price that life has to offer is a chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Far and away, the best prize that life has to offer is a chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.

You can't win any games in the Spanish league by giving only seventy or eighty per cent. You always have to step on the gas.

I'm terrible at languages. I'm trying to learn Spanish. I tried to learn French as a kid.

I've been trying to learn Spanish, but it has been hard for me. It's a slow process, but I'm trying.

I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.

You don't have any days to spare if you want to improve!

Rod and I are naturally in love, and that is what binds us together. But to keep the spark alive in your relationship, you really have to work at it.