More quotations tagged with “effort”
Certainly the effort to remain unchanged, young, when the body gives so impressive a signal of change as the menopause, is gallant; but it is a stupid, self-sacrificial gallantry, better befitting a boy of twenty than a woman of forty-five or fifty. Let the athletes die young and laurel-crowned. Let the soldiers earn the Purple Hearts. Let women die old, white-crowned, with human hearts.
—Ursula K. Le Guin
Just say something real. Everyone just always tries so hard, and it all comes out the same. I just want someone to say something real.
—Katie Alender in Bad Girls Don’t Die
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
—Peter Drucker
Continuous effort—not strength or intelligence—is the key to unlocking our potential
—Winston Churchill
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.… And one fine morning—
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby