effort quotes

People who can’t be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

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

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

I explain the law of compensation like this: ‚Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

When you write a song like ‚Forrest Gump,‘ the subject can’t be androgynous. It requires an unnecessary amount of effort.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around .600.

When you create circumstances together, when you try everything, then you can lose. But you need to show the importance.

To all the musicians who are making reggaeton, let’s put some more effort into it and bring something new to the people!

Talent and effort, combined with our various backgrounds and life experiences, has always been the lifeblood of our singular American genius.

Those places I don’t understand, just doing bad food. It takes some doing. Making good pasta is so much easier than making bad stuff. It actually takes quite an effort to make poor linguine pomodora.

They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited ‚first chapters‘. I have indeed written many.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of ‚escape of energy,‘ that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.

It’s one of the few regrets of my presidency – that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There’s no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I’ll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman’s heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

It’s a rule to give all, and it can make the difference if you work more. If you don’t have to give all, and you still win, what’s this?

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.

I probably work harder, putting in a lot of time and effort, than a lot of drivers because all I think about, and all I do, is to do with racing, trying to make myself a better driver.

It is no use saying, ‚We are doing our best.‘ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can’t wait for a feeling to motivate you.

I make such big efforts to forget things and I can’t tell the story of my life because, thank God, I’m still living it.

There is something about building up a comradeship – that I still believe is the greatest of all feats – and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

My priority is cricket. Everything that I get apart from it is a result of the effort on the field. Everything else follows. I am pretty aware of my priorities, and I don’t really focus on things that are not as important to me as cricket.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

What you put into life is what you get out of it.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.