Quotes About Effort

This is tantamount to saying, "My hand is weak. I cannot draw a straight line,—that is, a line which will be the shortest line between two given points,—and so, in order to make it more easy for myself, I, intending to draw a straight, will choose for my model a crooked line." The weaker my hand, the greater the need that my model should be perfect.

So much the worse for you!" he said mentally, like a man who, after vainly attempting to extinguish a fire, should fly in a rage with his vain efforts and say, "Oh, very well then! you shall burn for this!

He who wants results must allow for the means.

You do the best you can and try not to think about the opinion of others.

Anything loved so much, with a daily effort, grows.

A man knits and knits, and then entangles himself.

even damn fools can accomplish something now and then.

Cuando pensamos en lo que hemos sido capaces de hacer en el pasado, cuando pensamos que fueron las Cruzadas, esos miles de hombres que partieron para entregar la tumba de Cristo, ya no podemos desesperarnos de los hombres: son capaces de todos los esfuerzos

Los que titubean ante el esfuerzo, es porque tienen adormecida el alma

To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.

We're neither pure, nor wise, nor good We'll do the best we know. We'll build our house and chop our wood And make our garden grow. And make our garden grow!

Two things are necessary for great achievement: a plan and not quite enough time.

War is wonderful. They'll never stamp it out. It's one of the few times people can act their best. It's so economical in terms of gesture and motion, every single gesture is precise, every effort is at its maximum. Nobody goofs off. Everybody is responsible for his brother.

No juice to be hopeless, no heart to be sad. I tried in the wind, tried in the sand.

I did my best, it wasn't much I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you And even though it all went wrong I'll stand before the lord of song With nothing on my tongue but hallelujah

Perhaps we'll never know how far the path can go, how much a human being can truly achieve, until we realize that the ultimate reward is not a gold medal but the path itself.

What if you're practicing wrong? Then you get very good at doing something wrong.

The mental practice that underlies the anti-effort attitude is the act of evasion, of blanking out some fact of reality which one dislikes. This act constitutes the essence of irrationality and, therefore, of evil. Evasion is the Objectivist equivalent of a mortal sin. It is the only such sin that we recognize, because it is what makes possible every other form of moral corruption. 27

How many Christians there are who cannot pray, and who seek by effort, resolve, joining prayer circles, etc., to cultivate in themselves the ''holy art of intercession,'' and all to no purpose. Here for them and for all is the only secret of a real prayer life—''Be filled with the Spirit,'' who is ''the Spirit of grace and supplication.'' —REV. J. STUART HOLDEN

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.

Work on. " Work as if every time you started with and every time you finish.

The "bad slut" is the girl or woman who exposes the effort behind being hot.

For unfortunately, simplicity is a state which is mostly achieved only through great difficulty, or the complicity of others.

But very good isn't always good enough, Miss Flynn.