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Quotes About Effort

When someone has tried to please you, it is rude, as well as disheartening, to respond by announcing that the effort was a failure.
~ Judith Martin
Life's greatest tragedy consists of men and women who earnestly try, and fail!
~ Napoleon Hill
It's me," said Jace. "Watching me play Scrabble is enough to make most women swoon. Imagine if I actually put in some effort.
~ Cassandra Clare
Women: We cannot love them all. But we must try.
~ Edward Abbey
If only Paris and the Harpies had gotten along. But Promiscuity had taken one look at the beautiful women and deemed them "too much effort.
~ Gena Showalter
God knows (She knows) that women try.
~ Gloria Steinem
Bigger women have more fat to live on. They can put out more effort.
~ Heidi
If you see a tennis player who looks as if he is working hard, that means he isn't very good.
~ Helen Wills
Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use.
~ J. G. Holland
Some women make it look so easy, the way they cast ambition off like an expensive coat that no longer fits.
~ Jenny Offill
I've learned that the effort sportsmen and women put in is incredible. Their commitment to their sport is phenomenal. Sometimes as a viewer, as a sports fan, you only see the end result.
~ Jill Douglas
Women love to impress and be their best.
~ Martin Lawrence
The truth is that you may mess up a bit. Don't panic. Relax and remember to give your best and let the chips fall where they may.
~ Stalina Goodwin
Pain that results in success is better than pleasure that results in failure.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If you shake a tree, fruit must fall, no matter how reluctant it is.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A bird does not give up flying because it failed on its first attempt.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Sure he was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything [Fred Astaire] did, .. backwards and in high h
~ Bob Thaves
I was satisfied that I had done my best. She was insane.
~ John Fante, Ask the Dust
Walking through life, we spend most of our energy choosing the right shoes.
~ Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
The aphorism "If you want something done, ask a busy woman" is in direct acknowledgment of the efficiency boot camp parenthood puts you through.
~ Caitlin Moran
A bird is born knowing how to fly, but has to learn to conquer the skies.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Step up your game and success will step up to you.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Stumbling up a hill strengthens you more than sprinting down a mountain.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Fortune hides behind action.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo