Quotes about Effort

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

I find a lot of really hot people to be extremely boring because they haven't had to work at it.

A book takes me a year to write. It's too hard work for a revenge. -If you knew how little you had to revenge....

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.

If a writer is good at what he does, it's not easy to do a good job every day... To invent something new is almost an impossible task.

The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and focus.

All I can do is play as hard as I can play, make as many plays as I can make and try to help my team win football games.

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.