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Quotes About Effort

How often I spoilt things when I was trying so hard to do well.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
individuals who contributed their time and energy.
~ Cathy N. Davidson
We also thank, for their tireless contributions to
~ Cathy N. Davidson
The point is the effort
~ Geraldine Brooks
It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
First of all, nobody gave us anything. It makes me furious when I hear that they gave us suffrage. Excuse me? It took 72 years of unrelenting, unbroken organizing grassroots effort to get women's suffrage. It took 113 years to get rid of child labor by law. It took similarly long periods of organized effort to accomplish any advance in social policy.
~ Gerda Lerner
Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion by maintained by it.
~ Germaine Greer
I have never done anything in my life except try to make myself ill when I had my health and try to make myself well when I had lost it. I have been equally and thoroughly successful in both, and today in that particular I enjoy perfect health, which I wish I could ruin again; but age prevents me.
~ Giacomo Casanova
Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
~ Gian Carlo Menotti
Forse questa è filosofia a buon mercato, ma io credo che certi lavori dovrebbero essere fatti da quelli che non si sentono adatti [...]. Sentirsi un po' fuori posto aiuta, rende più vigili.
~ Gianrico Carofiglio
Un fantasma si aggira per l'Italia: l'idea che tutto sia dovuto, che non ci si debba impegnare per ottenere risultati e che la colpa dei nostri problemi sia sempre degli altri. Questo atteggiamento mentale autoassolutorio si traduce quasi naturalmente nell'offesa rispetto ai titolari dei privilegi, veri o presunti.
~ Gianrico Carofiglio
It's easy to do what is not good And things that harm oneself. It's very difficult to do Things beneficial and good.
~ Gil Fronsdal
Happiness is a direct consequence of personal effort.
~ Gilbert
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Students who proceed according to the master-slave paradigm will only work themselves to death. Students who flirt and dally with Japanese in a lover-like relationship shall live happily ever after
~ Giles Murray
nice to her. It had cost her quite a lot to push the door open. But
~ Gillian Cross
Long distance races ceased to be daunting, single entities – 12K, Half Marathon, Marathon. As if solving a riddle, I deciphered their true nature: incremental miles over time.
~ Gina Greenlee
All discomfort is not equal. Learning to listen will help you distinguish among effort, fatigue and pain. To what degree, under what conditions and over what period of time your body experiences these sensations will determine how you respond.
~ Gina Greenlee
Your body provides you with constant feedback that can help improve your running performance while minimizing biomechanical stress. Learn to differentiate between the discomfort of effort and the pain of injury. When you practice listening, you increase competence in persevering through the former and responding with respect and compassion to the latter.
~ Gina Greenlee
But be patient: you reap what you sow, you reap later than you sow, and you reap more than you sow.
~ Ginger Plowman
I did everything Fred did, only backwards and in high heels.
~ Ginger Rogers
The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.
~ Ginger Rogers
Comunicar los deseos imaginados y las imágenes deseadas es la tarea más ardua.
~ Giorgio Agamben