Quotes About Effort

If you look closer, if you go slowly, there can be story even without progress or plot, life in small change, like Dante and Beatrice, like fish swimming hard against the current just to stay where they are. They're not getting anywhere, neither Dante nor the fish, but that doesn't mean there isn't effort, growth, triumph, and beautiful poetry. Trust me, stasis is challenging. And challenge is story.

If we hadn't broken every single WHO rule many times over, we would never have defeated samllpox. Never. - Arita, leader of smallpox eradication effort

Perhaps desire will never be fulfilled. But to live is only worth the effort if you live in hope.

Life must not be squandered. A person got from life what he put ino it.

A man does what must be done,' Karl said, trying to concentrate on his board-making. "But you never complain." 'What good would complaining do? A job takes so many hours of work, complaining will not shorten those hours.

How such incredibly powerful creatures could be so vulnerable was a crime against the universe. The tragic futility of it all was what really got me. The rhino's brilliant million-year evolutionary effort to build up three tons of muscle, bone and horn to defend itself meant nothing in a modern technological world that didn't care a fig about them. The fact that our grandchildren may never see a rhino in the wild again was a pivotal reason to continue to try and save them.

They say you get out of life what you put in, but that is only true if you can understand what it is that you are getting.

California is a queer place -- in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.

Aquí, ya ves, hay que correr todo lo posible para quedarte en el mismo sitio. Si quieres ir a algún sitio, debes correr al menos dos veces más rápido. Lewis Carroll, Alicia a través del espejo (monólogo de la reina roja)

Here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast. —The Red Queen in Alice Through the Looking Glass

Every lawyer shall tell his or her client that becoming involved with the legal system is like three years of experimental chemotherapy, one hundred percent guaranteed not to work.

Close but no cigar

tried-and-true methods. Once, he had sifted through a hundred bags of garbage

It's really the striving-the person becomes aware that whatever he is striving for becomes the cost.

If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.

Boredom is a sickness the cure for which is work; pleasure is only a palliative.

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more of it I have.

It was never a case of just going through the motions.

I believe in talent. I know you're not supposed to believe in that anymore because you're supposed to believe if you just work hard you can do anything. That's how you succeed, maybe. But talent is something you're born with. You cannot acquire it by working hard, and you cannot lose it by lying around either.

Easy dosen't matter to Lyudmila. Easy has never mattered. Possible is what matters.

Pray to God, but row towards shore.

That which is written without much effort is seldom read with much pleasure.

There is no such thing as a natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls

There are two things that won't last long in this world, and that's dogs chasing cars and pros putting for pars