Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.
Sandra Day O'ConnorTags: accomplishment advancement effort
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Samuel JohnsonTags: perseverance effort
Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.
Lloyd JonesTags: effort
People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach.
Marguerite de NavarreTags: french effort achievement medieval grapes troubador vines
I took off my sweatshirt and dropped it on the grass and set off around the track. As soon as I started running, the world changed. The bodies spread out across the green of the football field were parts of a scene remembered, not one real at this moment. The secret of effort is to keep on, I told myself. Not for the world would I have stopped then, and yet nothing- not even if I had been turned handsome as a reward for finishing- could have made up for the curious pain of the effort.
Harold BrodkeyTags: persistence effort
All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.
Chuck PalahniukTags: inspiration effort
Now we cannot...discover our failure to keep God's law except by trying our very hardest (and then failing). Unless we really try, whatever we say there will always be at the back of our minds the idea that if we try harder next time we shall succeed in being completely good. Thus, in one sense, the road back to God is a road of moral effort, of trying harder and harder. But in another sense it is not trying that is ever going to bring us home. All this trying leads up to the vital moment at which you turn to God and say, "You must do this. I can't.
C.S. LewisNothing [...] will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.
Samuel JohnsonTags: effort achievement obstacles
The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind.
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyMankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
Samuel JohnsonTags: knowledge thought effort
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