Quotes About Effort

I speak Japanese the way a bear dances. It's not that the bear dances well that impresses people, it's the fact the bear dances at all.)

Nothing you can't spell will ever work.

Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.

Plans get you into things but you've got to work your way out.

sThat's enriched my life more than I can say. Of course you could do more—you can always do more, and you should do more—but still, the important thing is to do what you can, whenever you can.

When we denigrate mediocrity, we discourage ourselves and others from trying new things. It would be great to be a great painter, but it's also great just to paint. Or sing or throw pots or knit scarves or play chess.

Of course you could do more—you can always do more, and you should do more—but still, the important thing is to do what you can, whenever you can.

An English gentleman never shines his shoes, but then nor does a lazy bastard.

There's nothing you've ever been successful at that you didn't work on every day.

If you're not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I'd rather be with someone who does a horrible job, but gives 110% than with someone who does a good job and gives 60%.

Wetenschap is de titanische poging van het menselijk intellect zich uit zijn kosmische isolement te verlossen door te begrijpen

Hellingafwaards. Je wil wel, maar moet lopen alsof je niet wil.

Resolution is almost omnipotent. Those little words "try" and "begin" are sometimes great in their results. "I can't" never accomplished anything. "I will try" has achieved wonders.

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.

Does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?

Marcus: "Yes, they say that life is more like wrestling than like dancing.

The Stoics, for example, did not sit around apathetically, resigned to whatever the future held in store; to the contrary, they spent their days working to affect the outcome of future events.

With stupidity, even the gods struggle in vain.') Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805)

But the better the training, the greater and more detailed the preparation, the more men are at the mercy of the impossible.

No pain, no gain," they say. But many change efforts fail because the people affected experience only the pain. The company may gain, but for employees it seems to be all loss. Trying to talk them out of their feelings will get you nowhere.

Come let us mock at the greatThat had such burdens on the mindAnd toiled so hard and lateTo leave some monument behind,Nor thought of the leveling wind.

It's certain there is no fine thing Since Adam's fall but needs much laboring.

I said, "A line will take us hours maybe;Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought,Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.Better go down upon your marrow-bonesAnd scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stones."

I said: 'A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.