Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery–isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you’ll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you’re going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It’s the only good fight there is.

Do not mop around and mourn about your problems, get up, keep your head up and do what you have to do to make things better for you. You cannot let this difficult time be your whole life. Let it pass and start a new.

Keep your chin up. No one expected you to save the world, otherwise you would have been born wearing a cape and tights. Just do the best you can.

Keep your head up and keep it high. You did the best you could at the time and that is what matters in the end.

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

When all your effort has no efficiency, and you can’t progress, don’t wait! Be more decisive and start your new adventure.

Each day is another chance to begin with something that you’ve wanted to do all along. Make a conscious effort to do something new every day instead of going on around in the same old pattern.

Sometimes the only solution is to give up and to move on to something new and healthier. That wont happen automatically though. You have to

Starting fresh is not impossible. It takes time and effort, but it is never an impossible task. All you have to do is to take the first step.

All we can do is our best. And sometimes the best that we can do… is to start over.

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.

Why worry? If you’ve done the very best you can, worrying won’t make it any better. I worry about many things, but not about water over the dam.

People often ask me if I know the secret of success and if I could tell others how to make their dreams come true. My answer is, you do it by working.

Mom, I’m real, a person. A living part of this world, not just a prop. But being part of the world means putting in effort.

Let that not discourage you. Don’t be reluctant to make the effort!

God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.

Everyone has desires from the moment they’re born, so that’s easy to understand. But kindness is something that each person has to craft for themselves. It’s easily misinterpreted or taken for hypocrisy. But you, Tohru…I want you to believe. Anyone can doubt. That’s easy. Become the kind of girl who can believe in other people. And I’m sure you will give someone strength.

We as African Americans knew that if we wanted to see change, we had to step up to the plate and make that change ourselves. Not everyone comes to that realization in their lives, but thank God Linda Brown’s father felt that way.

Get clear today on what you really WANT for yourself!

Oftentimes we settle for what we think we can get – quit settling, and go after your biggest Goals.

All we can do is try, do our best. Give as much time as we have to give, one day at a time. One breath at a time.

“Potential,” I said, “doesn’t mean a thing. You’ve got to do it. Almost every baby in a crib has more potential than I have.”

I promise I will always do whatever I can to bring a smile to your face.

I’m ready to do anything to be your everything.

I love how you take care of me and how you keep working to be a better man even on days that I fail to be a better woman.

It’s simple. Never give up on me and I’ll never give up on you.

So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.

If only it was effortless to understand you because if it wasn’t so. . .there wouldn’t be any point to be by your side…

I have not found it for I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard.

Good Morning, dear! May all your efforts be recognized, valued, and rewarded today!

If you’re tired of starting over, stop giving up.

Happy February, friends! Together we can make this month a memorable one.

Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, ‘Don’t try.’ That fits the writing, too. I don’t try; I just type.

A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then, the weak man must become strong of himself. He must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.

No matter how you’re feeling today, get up, dress up, and show up. Never give up!

God has a plan for every individual. We must only strive to achieve what we have to. He takes care of the rest.

Things will get better – despite our efforts to improve them.

A truck driver gets to his destination driving down the road, not leaning back to enjoy the view.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Let me tell you something about Tunechi – about that boy. That boy comes to the studio every day and grind as if he doesn’t have a dollar in his pocket.

I got it out the mud. Ain’t nobody ever gave me nothing.

I have to… try my best. Or I’ll… become worse and worse. Even if I can’t make up with them, even… if they all ignore me… I still have to try my best.

If you’re gonna half-ass being nice and encouraging someone, then it’d actually be kinder to leave them alone from the start. And another thing – if someone’s being nasty to you, you should sass them right back. Just standing there and taking it means it’s partially your fault too.

The family is threatened by growing efforts on the part of some to redefine the very institution of marriage, by relativism, by the culture of the ephemeral, by a lack of openness to life. These realities are increasingly under attack from powerful forces, which threaten to disfigure God’s plan for creation.

If it was an overnight success, It was one long, hard, sleepless night.

What you sow, you reap. It’s a law of nature. Network Marketing is perfectly aligned with that. You get truly, EXACTLY what you’re worth! No nepotism, no favoritism. That’s rare today.

Success is buried on the other side of frustration; unfortunately some people don’t do what it takes to get to the other side.

It’s just there. You can’t do anything without it. It’s in everything. I like to work problems. If you do your best, nobody can ask you to do it over again. I never had to repeat what I did.

Follow your passion. Whatever you’re doing, do your best at all times and make it as correct as possible. Work as if someone is watching you. Then you’ll be prepared when an opportunity presents itself. And you’ll have the answers.

All jobs are important to somebody. They had to be important to somebody. My theory is, do the best you can all the time. No fooling around.

Administrations and administrative faculty work very hard to see that schools are diverse as much as possible.

Doing the same things you did when the economy was good is not good enough. You will have to put more coals on the fire in a poor economy to get the same heat you received in a good economy. You must give more energy, more thought, more service, and get into positive thinking material more frequently. Become more selective about who you spend time with. Love a little more, hate a little less. Think about it. You can progressively move on an upward path toward any goal. The choice is yours as to who or what controls you!

Let’s try our best? I hope that someday the many, many tears that were shed will be worth it.

Why give 100% when 35% will get you paid and laid.

True kindness isn’t something we’re born with. It’s something we have to work at. Not everyone has it. But I think everyone has the potential. Sometimes you just have to look really close before you can tell it’s there.

God has a plan for all of us, but He expects us to do our share of the work.

Making the beginning is one third of the work.

We go the distance.

Truck drivers: No rich parents, no assistance, no handouts, no favours. Straight hustle all day, everyday!

But [Pooh] couldn’t sleep. The more he tried to sleep the more he couldn’t. He tried counting Sheep, which is sometimes a good way of getting to sleep, and, as that was no good, he tried counting Heffalumps. And that was worse. Because every Heffalump that he counted was making straight for a pot of Pooh’s honey, and eating it all. For some minutes he lay there miserably, but when the five hundred and eighty-seventh Heffalump was licking its jaws, and saying to itself, “Very good honey this, I don’t know when I’ve tasted better,” Pooh could bear it no longer.

Barber Truth: A beard is a commitment. It represents an act of devotion to oneself.

Run, run, run—with everything you have—into everything you are meant to be.

When I get involved, I give it my heart,
I mean my mind, my soul, my body: I mean every part.
But if it doesn’t work out, yo, it just doesn’t.
It wasn’t meant to be, you know, it just wasn’t.

I’m not a ‘what if’. I want to just do it, try it, give it my all, and if it’s not meant to be, I can accept that. But I had to do it.

Whatever’s meant to be, will be. I’m a firm believer in that and I’ll make it work.

Emeritus John Farrington said, “Sometimes God’s creation does not yield to scientific research without great effort and our results are not always what we would like or predicted.

The Jeep windshield was doing its damnedest to stay clear, but the amount of water flowing over it threatened to overwhelm the ionizer.

Nothing can save something that is not meant to be, no matter how hard you try.