Quotes About Effort

There's no difference between a pessimist who says, "Oh, it's hopeless, so don't bother doing anything," and an optimist who says, "Don't bother doing anything, it's going to turn out fine anyway.

si no haces algo bien, no lo hagas a menos que estés dispuesto a dedicar tiempo a mejorarlo.

Si hicieras eso mismo con tu vida profesional, tendrías que dedicar cuatro mil horas, o dos años de trabajo.

It's easy to convince yourself that things need to be hard, that if you're not redlining, you're not trying hard enough. This leads us to look for paths of most resistance, often creating unnecessary hardship in the process.

Love of bustle is not industry. —SENECA

Most people exist between the on and off switch. They are unable to turn on and put out high power, and they are unable to turn off completely and enjoy true rest.

Por qué hacer el esfuerzo de explicar por qué algo no sirve si los demás no han hecho los deberes para comprobar si sirve?»

I don't like work," says Marlow in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, "but I like what is in the work—the chance to find yourself." Marlow

You realize that you will never be the best-looking person in the room. You'll never be the smartest person in the room. You'll never be the most educated, the most well-versed. You can never compete on those levels. But what you can always compete on, the true egalitarian aspect to success, is hard work. You can always work harder than the next guy.

Como si la dificultad y el esfuerzo y la tortura confirieran de algún modo seriedad al trabajo que has elegido.

Would it work? I had no idea, but I did know one thing: If the easy approach failed, the unending-labor-in-the-salt-mines approach was always waiting in the wings.

lo que haces es infinitamente más importante que cómo lo haces.

Life doesn't have to be so damn hard. It really doesn't. Most people, my past self included, have spent too much time convincing themselves that life has to be hard, a resignation to 9-to-5 drudgery in exchange for (sometimes) relaxing weekends and the occasional keep-it-short-or-get-fired vacation.

Creativity operates differently. You work hard because you're inspired to, not because you have to. Work becomes fun, and you have energy for days because this life is not a "young man's game." It is an "inspired person's game.

Greatness comes from humble beginnings; it comes from grunt work. It means you're the least important person in the room—until you change that with results.

Quizá la acción no traiga siempre consigo la felicidad, pero no hay felicidad sin acción.» BENJAMIN DISRAELI, ex primer ministro británico

It is so easy to coast!

I'm not happy with the way I talk to my children. I try to say the right thing, but I always end up blowing it.

Make every effort

The rest of this book is about hard work, but it is the best work you will ever do. If

mess. This side of heaven, relationships and ministry are always shaped in the forge of struggle. None of us get to relate to perfect people or avoid the effects of the fall on the work we attempt to do. Yet, amid the mess, we find the highest joys of relationship and ministry.

When states are absent, rights—by any definition—are impossible to sustain. States are not structures to be taken for granted, exploited, or discarded, but are fruits of long and quiet effort.

To blow and swallow at the same moment is not easy.

But any acquisition that doesn't correspond to the labour expended is dishonest