Quotes About Effort

You cannot catch trout with dry breeches.

I craft so hard I sweat glitter.

It is only the first step that is difficult.

Each of us can only do the best we can for as many as we can and that will never be good enough for those of us who care!

Many an angel, with its needle, toils beneath the snow.

Hope is wingèd — one wing faith-patience the other action-effort: and we must fly with both!

Cleanliness is next to impossible.

I fought the lawn and the lawn won.

The higher the monkey climbs, the more he shows his behind.

He had sought to equip himself with the tools of artistry. On the other hand, he had not sacrificed strength. His conscious aim had been to increase his strength by avoiding excess of strength. Nor

Whether you do or think you do, it's the same thing. You spend what you haven't got, and in return you get greater value from spending what you haven't got than I get from spending what I have got, and what I have sweated to get.

You cannot wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

stand ipecacuanha, and which of them were constitutionally unable to retain that powerful drug.  One who lay dead he ordered to be carried out.  He spoke in the sharp, peremptory manner of a man who would take no nonsense, and the well men who obeyed his orders scowled malignantly.  One muttered deep in his chest as he took the corpse by the feet.  The white man exploded in speech and action.  It cost him a painful effort, but his arm shot out, landing

for he could scarcely make them move together to grip a twig, and they seemed remote from his body and from him. 

it. The man with the high standard of living will always do more work and better than the man with the low standard of living.

the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild.

It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild.

snow on the alternative facet, striving

La vida llega a su más alto punto cuando se realiza, con todas las fuerzas de que se es capaz, aquello para lo cual se le dieron cuantos medios necesitaba.

1. You Get What You Give.

But even in my life I saw the leaching of spirit. A surfeit of honey cloys the tongue; a surfeit of wine addles the brain; so a surfeit of ease guts a man of strength. Light, warmth, food, water, were free to all men, and gained by a minimum of effort. So the people of Ampridatvir, released from toil, gave increasing attention to faddishness, perversity, and the occult.

Humanity is old, civilization new: the mesh of cogs is by no means smooth — and this is as it should be. Never should a man enter a building of glass or metal, or a spaceship, or a submarine, without a small shock of astonishment; never should he avoid an act of passion without a small sense of effort …

That's more easily said than done;

To fail and persevere is a harder test than any you will meet on the practice-field.