Quotes About Effort

It is all very well to say that a man should play for the pure love of the game. Perhaps he ought, but to the working man it is impossible.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Our habitual efforts to extricate ourselves, far from freeing us, actually keep us locked in the pain we're trying to escape.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Knowledge without action is empty as a shadow.

Formula for Success- Rise Early, Work Hard, Strike Oil

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.

Short cuts make long delays.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

Such a dream would be the moral or even emotional equivalent of a poor person suddenly winning the lottery: without effort, suddenly all your problems are over! Just pray about it and there won't be any more moral battles! But virtue is not like that, and Christian moral living is not like that either. The romantic dream of an inner transformation that will make moral effort unnecessary is untrue both to the New Testament and to worldwide and millennia-long Christian experience.

There is nothing remarkable about it, all one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.

There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.

What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve.

I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed . . . equally well.

Ha sempre sospettato che la signora madre, in un lontano passato in cui era giovanissima e immaginosa, ha scelto di farsi morta per non dovere morire. Da lì deve venire quella sua speciale capacità di accettare ogni noia col massimo della condiscendenza e il minimo dello sforzo.

You have never done enough, so long as it is still possible that you have something of value to contribute

Whatever betterment we have today was carved out of a world of stone by men of the hammer, not men of hope.

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening the door to your own life is, in the end, more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe.

Whatever forms of meditation you practice, the most important point is to apply mindfulness continuously, and make a sustained effort. It is unrealistic to expect results from meditation within a short period of time. What is required is continuous sustained effort.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Code of the Grunt: You ain't Superman. You do what you can and then you try to live with the fact that it wasn't enough.

Chesterton says that thinking is the hardest work in the world. And hard work, he says, is repugnant to our nature.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.