Quotes About Effort

You rescued me when I thought nobody would. When I thought I wasn't worth the effort. You gave me everything and asked for nothing.' She pressed her face to mine. 'If this is love on the other side of the rescue, then I want to live it. With you. But,' She shook her head. 'But if you give you to me, then'- she placed her palm flat across my chest -'come heavy

Here's the secret you should remember whenever you hear someone lamenting how tough it is to get ahead in the postindustrial global economy: Few people work nearly as hard as they could. The few who do have it made.

After a couple of hours of intense work, I look at the paragraph I'm struggling with and know that it will be easier to finish it tomorrow. Other writers who talk about their routines usually make the same point—three or four hours a day is about the maximum that can be expected.

Try hard. Be true. Enjoy. Godspeed.

Why is it a good thing to understand this movie so well? Because it will help you live a good life. Absorbing the deep meaning of the Nicomachean Ethics will also help you live a good life, but Groundhog Day will do it with a lot less effort. 35.

Taking the trouble out of life strips people of major ways in which human beings look back on their lives and say, "I made a difference.

this is the abstract, this is the cold doing, this is the almost impossible

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

It's hard to convince people when you're just staring out the window that you're doing your hardest work of the day.

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

It's not supposed to be easy. Anyone who finds it easy is stupid.

Competition is good, and the only way to win is to try a little harder than everybody else in the game. The sooner young people find that out, the better off they'll be.

Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.

We are born to a time. What you do with it is on you. Do the best you can. Try to be good. And live.

As kids we're not taught how to deal with success we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?

Achieving excellence is being passionate about what you're doing and working so hard that they have to hire two people to replace you.

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

We all have to practice, and we have to practice with all of our might for the rest of our lives.

The effort of decision, we have seen, is the greatest effort of life; not the doing of the thing, but the making up of one's mind as to which thing to do first. It is commonly this sort of mental indolence, born of indecision, which leads to dawdling habits.

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.

Do you love him enough to do something to win him — to really put yourself out somewhat for that purpose?

I pulled and she shook, I shook and she pulled, and before morning we had peeled off yards of that paper.

But I find I get pretty tired when I try.

But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way — it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief.