Quotes About Effort

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It is just too much effort to be funny and entertaining and loving. It is just too much effort to talk, really.

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

library catalogs are a tangible example of humanity's effort to establish and preserve the possibility of order.

It is a dangerous thing for the perfecting of our minds to gain applause by works that do not call forth the whole of our energies; for in that case one generally comes to a standstill.

She had done all she could. It didn't feel like enough. Nothing, in fact, ever did.

You don't realize how much effort you've put into covering things up until you dig them out.

Man inser inte hur mycket man ansträngt sig för att dölja saker förrän man försöker gräva fram dem [Karaktärens ord]

You don't realize how much effort you've put into covering things up until you try to dig them out.

After all, only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them. Seriousness, after all, is only a sign of effort, and effort is a sign of imperfect mastery

Scholars who are worth anything at all never know what is call "a hard grind" or what "bitter study" means.

Labor is the true standard of value.

If you intend to go to work, there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to work, you cannot get along anywhere. Squirming and crawling about from place to place can do no good.

The victor shall soon be the vanquished, if he relax his exertion; and ... the vanquished this year, may be the victor in the next, in spite of all competition.

The human doesn't need long mathematical equations to hit a home run in baseball. The human body already understands the math involved and can do it with just some practice. Isn't that wonderful?

Study skills really aren't the point. Learning is about one's relationship with oneself and one's ability to exert the effort, self-control, and critical self-assessment necessary to achieve the best possible results--and about overcoming risk aversion, failure, distractions, and sheer laziness in pursuit of REAL achievement. This is self-regulated learning.

We're working on it." That's my standard answer in situations where I don't know squat. Tomasetti

It's easy to make a buck; it's tough to make a difference."4

It's not just the cheerleading thing I have a problem with, it's the whole jock enchilada. I'm all for a good game of basketball in teh driveway or a killer bike ride. But when there's tackling and grunting involved-- no thanks.

Better to say "I tried and failed and moved on" than "I never tried because I thought I might fail.

Helena Rubinstein, captures this concept perfectly: "There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.

Who looks back with pride at the end of the year (or at the end of their lives) on how much TV they watched, or how many Facebook posts they commented on? Most likely, every moment in your life you remember with fondness and pride took effort…and effort often means stress.

Working just a little harder than someone else who might be just as talented (or even a bit more) is what will win the day.