Quotes About Effort

The horses have all been found. No harm was done." "It took us two days to gather them! On foot! I will never hear the last of it!

Every fairy tale, it seems, concludes with the bland phrase "happily ever after." Yet every couple I have ever known would agree that nothing about marriage is forever happy. There are moments of bliss, to be sure, and lengthy spans of satisfied companionship. Yet these come at no small effort, and the girl who reads such fiction dreaming her troubles will end ere she departs the altar is well advised to seek at once a rational women to set her straight.

It was like he was in a contest to see who could do the least work, only he was the only contestant.

Fixin' onything is man's work," came Opal's firm answer. Tearin' down or killin', that thar's easy. Any addle-pated fool kin pull the trigger of a rifle-gun or fling a rock. It's fixin' that's hard, takes a heap more doin'.

Things are so easy to do, so hard to undo.

We're all just doing our best.' I left out the second part. 'Even if it doesn't look so good from the outside.

Hard work can sometimes substitute for natural ability, but natural ability almost never makes up for not being willing to do the work.

there's something about standing on the top of a mountain you personally climbed at great sacrifice.

You're supposed to make mistakes. You're just starting out. Mistakes are a good thing. They mean you were brave enough to try something hard.

I could try." "For your own sake. Yeah." "It's just . . . I've been like this for so long." August pulled in a deep breath. Sighed it out again. "Yeah, I imagine you have. But I'd still appreciate it if you'd let go of the idea that you constantly need to impress me." "I'll try." But he didn't sound too sure about his chances of succeeding. "Toast?

I worked on smiling at her, so she'd smile back. But it was an effort for me, a trip into the unfamiliar. It made me think of the tin man in The Wizard of Oz,

It's a lot of work for something that's always going to fall down at the end. But then, all of life is like that. Right?

You're trying to change things that're not within your control to change. And whenever you try to do something that's impossible to do, you're going to find yourself a little on the tired side. Make sense?

It's better to do what you can, fitness-wise, than to do nothing at all.

I didn't know if I had saved a life or not. For that, the person you tried to save has to survive.

There's more to bagging groceries than you think. It's not as easy as it looks. There's a lot to know.

Everybody is careful these days to maintain just the right attitude toward the war effort.

The hard work is the lion's share of the battle. Hard work can sometimes substitute for natural ability, but natural ability almost never makes up for not being willing to do the work.

You may not know it but the keeping of a large house by one girl is the hardest work going on earth. I heard there's fire in hell but I'll bet the Devil just hands you a bucket and tells you to get moving, this place ain't gonna clean itself.

Still, I did love him. He never minded if I wore my pyjamas for a week and didn't brush my hair. That's a good quality to have in a man. Maybe the best a girl could hope for, considering. And, by Jove, he loves that child. Did you know you can fall in love with the way a man loves someone else? Love takes so much effort. You have to get up ever so early in the morning to really love someone properly.

Imagine having so much energy to spare after finding food and shelter and clothing and some tiny goddamn scrap of company that you figured you'd make a beautiful silver cup, not because some kid did the best job, but just because she tried the hardest. I tried the hardest all the time , and everyone's just permanently fucking mad at me. Imagine having that much left over that you give one single ghostly shit about the eight-best daffodil.

The Party is a wonderful, marvelous invention, and it has taught us wonderful, marvelous things—chiefly, that we can cause more trouble with less effort by filing complaints than by breaking teacups.

Perhaps memory is a thing that everyone involved has to work at, like stitching up a big quilt out of everything that ever happened to you.

they climbed their ladders to wheedle and prune the trees into holiness