Quotes About Effort

Fallarás el cien por ciento de los tiros que no intentes».

Los hámsteres corren cientos y cientos de metros en su rueda y no van a ningún lado. En cambio, mira a los leones, tumbados veintitrés horas al día, pero cuando se levantan cazan un búfalo»

You think if you work hard enough, you can fix the precious things you've broken—rather than being careful with them in the first place.

Be intent on the action, not on the fruits of action.2

He's washin' dishes and baby clothes,He's so ambitious he even sews.But don't forget, folks,That's what you get, folks,For makin' whoopee!

The recovery must rather be—let me repeat—the result of an effort to be faithful, in both prayer and concrete commitments, to the will of the Lord in the midst of the poor.

Sunday is the only day you have to push like a handcart,' Thomas wrote in The Book Of Everything. ' The other days roll down the bridge by themselves.

Children's success in life depends not on whether they can read, but on whether they do

keeping order is a crutch for those who are too lazy to search for things …)

So if you, O subsequent ones, ever deign to look down at us from your summit of effortless superiority, remember that you have only scaled it on the back of our efforts. For it is thankless to grope in the dark and tempting to rest until the light of understanding shines upon us. But if we are led into this temptation, your kingdom will never come.

He had a sense—honed by experience—that what he'd contrived might achieve something of the effect he wanted. That, Martinius had always said, was the best any man in this fallible world could expect. [p. 67]

It was more than all right, Finn. You did everything right. Every single thing, from the very beginning.

A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.

You have to sit by the side of a river for a *very* long time before a roast duck will fly into your mouth.

E?er Homeros'tan ö?rendi?im aziz ve k?ymetli bir hayat dersi varsa,o da bir canl?n?n vaktini doldurmak için,zahmete de?er projeler yaratmas?n?n asl?nda ne kadar önemli oldu?udur.

You don't have to enjoy life, you simply have to do the best you can at it. Because every day you wake up and see yourself in the mirror, and that reflection is something you can never get away from. Not ever.

I try not to be but I'm super-neurotic about diet. I'm neurotic about trying not to be neurotic! I'm like every other girl. I have to try really hard my whole life to try to be fit. And I'm super-vain. And I want to wear cute clothes.

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To us this ladder has a descending movement, because the ascent , which evokes effort and difficulty, is toward the bottom. I say ascent downward because we ordinarily believe the descent is easy. The writers I love are descenders , explorers of the lowest and deepest.

His studies were pursued but never effectually overtaken.

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.

Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

If you're doing your best, you won't have time to worry about failure.