Quotes about Effort

Terror was always just behind her shoulder: she was wasted by the effort of not turning round. She dressed up her fear, so that she could look at it—in the form of fever, rats, unemployment. The real thing was taboo—death coming nearer every year in the strange place: everybody packing up and leaving, while she stayed in a cemetery no one visited, in a big aboveground tomb.

While people involved in religious forms of the flesh may believe they are taking sin seriously by persistently reminding people to stop doing it, they are actually trivializing sin by depicting it as something that can be overcome through behavior modification.

It's not what you do, but how much love you put into it that matters.

To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it.

Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do — send for reinforcements?

When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.

Everything that's worth having is some trouble…

In everything you do aim to excel for what is worth doing is worth doing well

Remember it is harder still To have no work to do

Everything that's worth having is some trouble - Anne Shirley

I've done my best and I begin to understand what is meant by the 'joy of the strife.' Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement.