I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have the light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labours it has cost me.

If we'd known we were going to be the Beatles, we'd have tried harder.

Many things - such as loving, going to sleep or behaving unaffectedly -are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

Doing your best is more important than being the best.

I have done what I could-let those who can, do better.

In joy or sorrow, health or sickness, prosperity or the reverse, the effort must still continue. One must rise after every fall and gradually acquire courage, faith, the will to succeed and the capacity to love.

Your own efforts "did not bring it to pass," only God-but rejoice if God found a use for your efforts in His work.

He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

It is for us to make the effort. The result is always in God's hands.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.