#effort

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#anything #appreciates #before #efforts #many

I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts. ↗

— Robert Walpole

#been #despise #disdain #efforts #i

(about William Blake) As for Blake's happiness--a man who knew him said: "If asked whether I ever knew among the intellectual, a happy man, Blake would be the only one who would immediately occur to me." And yet this creative power in Blake did not come from ambition. ...He burned most of his own work. Because he said, "I should be sorry if I had any earthly fame, for whatever natural glory a man has is so much detracted from his spiritual glory. I wish to do nothing for profit. I wish to live for art. I want nothing whatever. I am quite happy." ...He did not mind death in the least. He said that to him it was just like going into another room. On the day of his death he composed songs to his Maker and sang them for his wife to hear. Just before he died his countenance became fair, his eyes brightened and he burst into singing of the things he saw in heaven. ↗

— Brenda Ueland

#creativity #effort #freedom #glory #happiness

I hid this one in hopes that you would find it long after I'm gone. I hope you find this months from now, when I'm still out there, on the road, away from you. I can't imagine what the time apart has done to us. I'm hoping we're more in love than ever. I'm hoping that when I come back, you'll move in with me. In all honesty, I'm hoping that when I come back, you'll agree to marry me someday. Because that's what I want, what I dream about. You, mine, for the rest of my life. I hope you feel the same because I don't know what I would do without you. I love you so much. But, if for some reason we're not closer, if something has gotten between us, please, I'm begging you, don't give up on me. Stay. Stay with me. Work it out with me. Just don't leave me. Please. ↗

— S.C. Stephens

#kellan-kyle #s-c-stephens #dreams

Marriage is a team effort. Both of us share that philosophy. ↗

— Nick Lachey

#effort #marriage #philosophy #share #team

None of the things I have done would have been accomplished without a true team effort. ↗

— Nick Lampson

#been #done #effort #i #none

A national evil requires a national remedy; let not this any longer be delayed: let your minds expand, free from every narrow principle, and let the public good become the sole object of your united Christian efforts. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#become #christian #delayed #efforts #every

I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the 'security' out of Social Security. ↗

— Mary Landrieu

#effort #expand #flawed #i #must

I am not one for half measures or half-hearted efforts. ↗

— Jay Inslee

#efforts #half #half-hearted #i #i am

I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort. ↗

— Thomas Lynch

#eventually #generally #having #hoop #i