Quotes about Effort

I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.

The amateur tweets. The pro works.

Often times we feel like either we can't make a world of difference, or we feel that it's not going to change anything anyway. The truth is you can change someone's day, you can change someone's life, but you have to show up and do what you got to do to actually see any fruit coming from it.

The Lord is pleased with every effort, even the tiny, daily ones in which we strive to be more like Him.

We don't have to be perfect today. We don't have to be better than someone else. All we have to do is to be the very best we can.

I honestly feel like I've been mostly toiling in obscurity until a little bit after 'Day Of the Dog' came out.

Each of us at any time and space is doing the very best we can with what we have.

She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.

The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work. - Mark Twain

Today the same thing over. I've got it up the tree again.

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it—namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. And

When its steamboat time you steamboat.