Quotes About Effort

would not, could not, make a significant overture. My pride depended on this. She would have needed to make the effort, enough to be openly vulnerable; she would have had to risk my revenge. I like to think I wouldn't have rebuffed her, but it's possible that I would have. It's possible that I would have felt the need to exercise the power if I'd had it. But she didn't grant me the opportunity

I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort

No it is not easy to write. It is as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel.

you perfect results. What I can promise you is that you won't get it right if you don't commit to keep trying.

But if anyone believes that he is working harder but is being paid less than another person, it would be like transplanting cancer into this company.

People who truly love what they do and who think their work is meaningful have a distinct advantage when they arrive at work every day. They throw their best effort into their jobs, and it makes them very good at what they do. This

There's an old saying: find a job that you love and you'll never work a day in your life. People who truly love what they do and who think their work is meaningful have a distinct advantage when they arrive at work every day. They throw their best effort into their jobs, and it makes them very good at what they do.

In the old days, when Hawaiians wanted to give a gift, they doesn't have Safeway. Or any money. They had to take from nature what the gods gave them. Gather the flowers, make the twine, string the flowers. Lots of time and effort. We do the work just to say, 'I love you.' No meaning when we buy a lei in the supermarket.

already know. It's like finding a needle in a haystack—

All things are hard, it said. There is nothing easy.

Sensing the strange, nagging frustration of a worker who knows his work is nonproductive.

You get what you work for not what you wish for

You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave.

You could sometimes guide people's opinions, but if they didn't want to buy what you had to sell you could shout yourself hoarse trying to make them do it and it would never work.

Can you hear me, Todd? There's an ambulance on its way." For a moment his eyes opened a little wider, and he seemed to be making an effort to concentrate on the face in front of him. "It's Maxine," she said. "Remember me?

There is a difference, he said, between the wise man who gives up because the task is beyond him, and the coward who does not even consider trying. You are brave, but bravery is not enough.

She was indeed tired , as she'd claimed , but it wasn't the cooking that exhausted her. It was the effort of suppressing her contempt for he damn fools who were gathered in the lounge below. She'd called them friends once , these half-wits , with their poor jokes and poorer pretensions.

She was indeed tired , as she'd claimed , but it wasn't the cooking that exhausted her. It was the effort of suppressing her contempt for the damn fools who were gathered in the lounge below. She'd called them friends once , these half-wits , with their poor jokes and poorer pretensions.

It's like asking a gang of kids to lift a Patton tank out of Lake Erie with a few ropes and a raft.

toward the truck. Sam shoved

You didn't need to be lucky to be successful. You just needed to work hard.

He who gets behind in a race must forever remain behind or run faster than the man in front.

He was a mote cycling in the wheels of a giant clock. Millions of people tended to this magnificent contraption, they lived and sweated and toiled in it, serving the mechanism of metropolis and making it bigger, better, story by glorious story and idea by unlikely idea. How small he was, tumbling between the teeth.

the immense exertion white people put into grinding them down