1,905 Quotes About Effort

There is no state of being called "trying".

No one ever drowned in sweat.

...when people already know they're deficient, they have nothing to lose by trying.

The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.

It is always the start that requires the greatest effort.

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.

Es saku jums jau dienas simt un piecas - lai puķi dabūtu ir jānoliecas.

If one's intellectual equipment was not great, one's spiritual experience not deep, the result of doing one's very best could only seem very lightweight in comparison with the effort involved. But perhaps that was not important. The mysterious power that commanded men appeared to him to ask of them only obedience and the maximum of effort and to remain curiously indifferent as to the results.

Don't put your all into someone if they treat you like dirt.