Quotes About Effort

The natural thing to do is to work—to recognize that prosperity and happiness can be obtained only through honest effort.

If an employer urges men to do their best, and the men learn after a while that their best does not bring any reward, then they naturally drop back into "getting by." But if they see the fruits of hard work in their pay envelope—proof that harder work means higher pay—then also they begin to learn that they are a part of the business, and that its success depends on them and their success depends on it.

The biggest goal can be achieved if you simply break it down into enough small parts.

And when a man is really at work, he needs no title. His work honours him.

The natural thing to do is to work to recognize that prosperity and happiness can be obtained only through honest effort. Human ills flow largely from attempting to escape from this natural course.

A man ought to be able to live on a scale commensurate with the service that he renders.

Business is never as healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

The man who does not get a certain satisfaction out of his day's work is losing the best part of his pay.

There is this difference where a man works for himself, or where, when working for an employer, he takes his wages in kind, his wages depend upon the result of his labor. Should that, from any misadventure, prove futile, he gets nothing. When he works for an employer, however, he gets his wages anyhow—they depend upon the performance of the labor, not upon the result of the labor.

Laura tried her utmost, with an industry born of despair.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem

There is both a skill factor and an effort factor in dream recall. People can develop dream recall skills, such as lying still in the morning and writing down whatever comes to mind.

Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.

Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.

Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.

The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself.

I don't have talent, so I just get up earlier.

Knowledge without mileage equals bullshit.

The inward light is forever striving to gather enough additional light to penetrate the fog of our senses.

Use what talent you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.

It is better to burn the candle at both ends, and in the middle, too, than to put it away in the closet and let the mice eat it.