Quotes About Effort

Remember that life is not measured in hours but in accomplishments.

Working hard will allow you to be useful to successful people. Working smart will allow you to enter their ranks.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness

He who would accomplish little need sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much.

A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.

He who would accomplish little need sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much. He who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

Luck is created by the prepared.

The idea that we need to "pay our dues" is a lie told to us by people who wanted our efforts and labor on the cheap.

It's a choice: Either you try to make it look easy or you emphasize how hard it is.

You're only working with if you count the money at the end of the night. Otherwise you're working for.

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.

El afán es el deseo de ser un gran hombre y de hacer grandes cosas, y la pena y la agloria que todo eso produce. Eso es el afán.

El afán es el deseo de ser un gran hombre y de hacer grandes cosas, y la pena y la gloria que todo eso produce. Eso es el afán.

Il m'arrive de penser que ce serait sympa de trouver des mecs intelligents qui veuillent bien travailler seize heures par jour pour des clopinettes –mais bon, s'ils le voulaient bien, ils ne seraient pas si intelligents.

Isaiah calls the Church barren because her children are born without effort by the Word of faith through the Spirit of God. It is a matter of birth, not of exertion.

I attempt all day, at work, not to think about what lies ahead, but this costs me so much effort that there is nothing left for my work. I handle telephone calls so badly that after a while the switchboard operator refuses to connect me. So I had better say to myself, Go ahead and polish the silverware beautifully, then lay it out ready on the sideboard and be done with it. Because I polish it in my mind all day long—this is what torments me (and doesn't clean the silver).

IDÉE POUR UN COURT DOCUMENTAIRE Des représentants de l'industrie alimentaire essayent d'ouvrir leurs emballages.

The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.

It is a poor sort of fatalism which makes men fold their hands and wait for fortune.

That is the best sermon, not which is a great pulpit effort, but which is helpful. If, young men, you have preached a sermon and some one comes up to you and says that was a great pulpit effort, hide your head in shame and go home and never write another like it.

Perhaps we expect time to work for us, when time is only given us that we may work.

tried to do you proud.

Life asks for a preparation as complete as we can afford; the great contest should be fought with spirit but with good temper always; we should never think the game lost while it is still going; and finally we should have the satisfaction of quitting the field able to say: I did my best.