Quotes About Effort

This last labor grant me, O Arethusa.

Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises. Easy is the descent to hell the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work; that is labor.

Facilis descensus Averno: Noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis; Sed revocare gradium superasque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus, hic labor est. (The gates of Hell are open night and day; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way: But to return, and view the cheerful skies, In this task and mighty labor lies.)

We knew this wasn't going to be easy, but people before us have done it, and so can we. Nothing in this life is guaranteed. You make the best choices you can and try your hardest." He paused. "I reckon we can trust God to take care of the rest.

Good shot, bad luck, and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified.

This is always a problem. Someone saying "I'm going to paint a thoroughbred at full gallop", does not mean they can. More often than not, they end up scrawling something that just about looks like a squashed rat.

Why are certain people determined to fuck up their lives while for others it seems so easy to do things the way they are supposed to be done?

Such return awaits thy passion as thy passion merits.

At the same time, he must struggle hard to acquire these things — firstly, knowledge, and secondly, wealth. It is his duty, and if he does not do his duty, he is nobody. A householder who does not struggle to get wealth is immoral. If he is

To work we have the right, but not to the fruits thereof:

A householder who does not struggle to get wealth is immoral. If

for the householder who struggles to become rich by good means and for good purposes is doing practically the same thing for the attainment of salvation as the anchorite does in his cell when he is praying;

Life is going to give you just what you put into it. Put your whole heart in everything you do.

No, what mattered here was that Alice had spent a lifetime struggling to become a conscious human being whose primary delight was the use of her own mind; and now she was locked up in an atmosphere constructed to ignore—nay, discard—that long, valiant effort, when the only thing owed a human being—yes, from first to last—was to have it honored.

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Sisyphus would hardly stop if even he is on the top.

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need

Work is often the father of pleasure.

Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

Business is the salt of life.

even the finest of plans can fail when they're poorly instantiated.

To keep happy seems like walking on stilts. When one is tired, one falls off.