Quotes About Effort

Collecting stones does not make fruits. (Des pierres - Cueillir - N'en fait - Des fruits)

Oysters speaking doesn't give a pearl. (Les huîtres qui parlent n'ont pas de perle)

Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.

The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

A long pull, and a strong pull, and a pull all together.

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.

Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not.

things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up

In journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to go down hill than up

It's always something, to know you've done the most you could. But, don't leave off hoping, or it's of no use doing anything. Hope, hope to the last!

Weel, ma´am' said Stephen, making the best of it, with a smile; 'when I ha´finished off, I mun quit this part, and try another. Fortnet or misfortnet, a man can but try; there´s now to be done wi´out tryin -cept laying down and dying.

It is indeed a much greater thing that I do now than I have ever done.

Ah, that 'if.' But it's of no use to despond. I can but do that, when I have tried everything and failed, and even then it won't serve me much.

Wo-ho!" said the coachman. "So, then! One more pull and you're at the top and be damned to you, for I have had trouble enough to get you to it!—Joe!

Fortune or misfortune, a man can but try; there's not to be done without trying - accept laying down and dying.

It only shows how true the old saying is, that a man never knows what he can do till he tries, gentlemen. From "Pickwick Papers" ch. 49 page 646

If great criminals told the truth—which, being great criminals, they do not—they would very rarely tell of their struggles against the crime. Their struggles are towards it. They buffet with opposing waves, to gain the bloody shore, not to recede from it.

Ama ne yaz?k ki elimden gelenler içimden gelenlerin gerisinde kal?rd?.

Blažene žene: one nikad ništa ne rade dopola. One uvijek u sve unose svu strast.

Grindstone III. The Shadow IV. Calm in Storm V. The Wood-Sawyer VI.

up hill in the mire by the side of the mail, as the rest of the passengers did; not because they had the least relish for walking exercise, under the circumstances, but because the hill, and the harness, and the mud, and the mail, were all so heavy, that the horses had three times already come to a stop, besides once drawing the coach across the road, with the mutinous intent of taking it back to Blackheath.

Good gracious, Arthur,—I should say Mr Clennam, far more proper—the climb we have had to get up here and how ever to get down