Effort Quotes

When your efforts run in the face of conventional wisdom and accepted mastery, persistence can look like madness. If you succeed in the end, this extreme originality reformulates into a new level of mastery, sometimes even genius; if you fail in the end, you remain a madman in the eyes of others, and maybe even yourself. When you are in the midst of the journey…there’s really no way of knowing which one you are.” (p.129)

~ Hilary Austen

A tire spins aimlessly, being pulled a different direction by forces larger and stronger and with little consideration of its wasted effort. Sometimes, no matter how hard you try, you can't leave the road you're on.

~ Kimberly Morgan

Every decision is easy once you make it. The important thing is to think carefully, make your decision, and then work to make your choice the right one. That is the secret to a happy life. There are very few wrong decisions in life, but very few people who are willing to make the effort it takes to make their decisions the right ones.

~ John Kramer

Everything has an advantage and disadvantage but, choose an option that will bring you back to the track. Even if you see a poor man on the street choose an option that will left you up, but don't just choose, apply action.

~ Ben Bereng

I think that in our earlier history--the Gettysburg Address or something--there was the conscious sense that democracy was an achievement. It was not simply the most efficient modern system or something. It was something that people collectively made and they understood that they held it together by valuing it.

~ Marilynne Robinson

The same thing that makes friendship so valuable is what makes it so tenuous: it is purely voluntary. You enter into it freely, without the imperatives of biology or the agenda of desire. Officially, you owe each other nothing.

~ Tim Kreider

The quality of life that you have is determined solely by the effort you put into giving your life value, purpose and a reason.

~ Steven Redhead

So I picked the book up and did my usual 123 test. I don't bother reading the blurb on the back, or the first page - the writer's obviously going to be trying their hardest there, aren't they? It's how they're getting on by page 123 that's the real test. If they're crap at writing or bored with their story then you can bet they won't be making any effort at all by that point.

~ Siobhan Curham

Yet the human heart is disheartened by the most unreasonable self-judgments, because even when we take on giants, we too often confuse failure with fault, which I know too well. The only way back from such a bleak despondency is to shape humiliation into humility, to strive always to triumph over the darkness while never forgetting that the honor and the beauty are more in striving than in winning. When triumph at last comes, our efforts alone could not have won the day without that grace which surpasses all understanding and which will, if we allow it, imbue our lives with meaning.

~ Dean Koontz

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

~ Helen Keller

You’d have a list of notes of things that the player did and they’d want you to do it that way in practice. So they’d say, ‘He’s a guy who bites really hard on play action, so every time you see this play, do it that way. You want to give the quarterback a good look. You’re not reading it as you, you’re reading it as them. Play how they play and not how you play.’ Now, you’ve got to learn all your stuff, too, because you want to be on the team. So you’re watching film of you being him and you being you.”- Matt Chatham

~ Michael Holley

Don't think you can act perfectly. A perfect person doesn't exist. Always strive to give your best effort, and that's it.

~ Eraldo Banovac

Before you speak... I have already heard. Before you see... I had seen a million times. Before you reach... I came and departed, so is the way and life of a versatile soul.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.

~ Samuel Johnson

The bike does this; it is an apotheosis of self-sufficiency, in which a well-loved machine will unhesitatingly and quietly mediate intentional being into momentum. As you ride a bike and start to ride it well, there are moments when it becomes an affirmation of life devoid of separation and distinction; you ride through the earth unthinkingly rather than across it. There is no need to account for who you are in others’ terms, in language, even. Your characteristics give way to your being. The effort put into the bike can take you out of your socialized, represented self into what Heidegger called ‘disclosing self’, where you simply are ever-shifting endeavour.

~ Robin Holt

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind, it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

~ Helen Keller

Accept not a mediocre effort but any end result of a super effort

~ Manoj Arora

Making the attempt is what matters most.

~ Gary Hopkins

Simply giving something ‘a shot’ is not giving something our ‘best,’ for our best is made up of as many ‘shots’ as it takes in order to be our best.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I've always been like that, I give 100 percent. I can't do it any other way.

~ Emma Watson

Ever notice the word 'rough' in through? There is truth to that, though the way may be rough, we are still able to get through it.

~ Anthony Liccione

Like yeast, it’s impressive how considerably an ounce of determination can make one’s efforts grow and expand.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

When life brings you mountains, you don’t waste your time asking why; you spend your time climbing over them.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Beyond the clumsy, brute force tools of will, determination and hard work — and free from the heavy attachment of want, and the illusions of burden and blocks, is the true technology of creation through beingness.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Value the effort you put forward. Be determined, committed, and involved.

~ Lorii Myers

For a while there's nothing I can do but stand in the middle of the road, because going forward hurts too much. Going forward means continuing to try, when trying is so hard. The world is filled with idiots and assholes and monsters. Where are the guardian angels?

~ Carolyn Lee Adams

I am not what you see.I am what time and effort and interaction slowly unveil.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

When there is not enough time to do your best, do the best you can with the time you have.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The least effort is the feat most likely to be accomplished.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Gift ain't what you take by effort, as swag ain't what you worthy have.

~ Toba Beta

While real sacrifice is committed to the result, it relishes the effort

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

...the child trying not to appear as a child, of the strenuousness with which she tried to present the face of a convincing adult.

~ Joan Didion

Loving is effortless.. while Relationships, they require your time and patience... the two things we all lack..

~ Sanhita Baruah

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

~ Samuel Johnson

One of the most difficult lessons life has taught me is that if, despite my best efforts, something is not working out, it may be time to step back and assess what other opportunities are coming my way.

~ Andrena Sawyer

One of the most difficult lessons life has taught me is that if, despite my best efforts, something is not working out, it may be time to step back and assess what other opportunities are coming my way..

~ Andrena Sawyer

I have always found that effort is most easily produced when performed for the benefit of something external to ourselves.

~ Chris Matakas

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is for free, even in heaven.

~ Toba Beta

Love, it takes you so much effort without needing something in return.

~ Mean