Quotes About Effort

Everyone is doing what they have to do, and everyone is doing the best they can. And soon you will be going home.

He was one of those people things came easily to, but he did little to demonstrate that he deserved to be gifted.

She drew the line at television. It took no effort to watch – it was infinitely more beneficial to the soul, and to the intelligence, to read or to listen – and what she imagined there was on TV appalled her.

She was a passionate reader, and she thought that reading was one of the noblest efforts of all; in contrast, she found writing to be a great waste of time—a childish self-indulgence, even messier than finger painting—but she admired reading, which she believed was an unselfish activity that provided information and inspiration. She must have thought it a pity that some poor fools had to waste their lives writing in order for us to have sufficient reading material. (page 236)

Always be suspicious of easy work, Dr. Wilbur Larch once said to Homer Wells.

Treading water, a little dog-paddling—it's a lot like writing a novel, Clark," the dump reader told his former student. "It feels like you're going a long way, because it's a lot of work, but you're basically covering old ground—you're hanging out in familiar territory.

But she drew the line at television. It took no effort to watch—it was infinitely more beneficial to the soul, and to the intelligence, to read or to listen—and what she imagined there was to watch on TV appalled her; she had, of course, only read about it.

There are no ordained results in this world, I've discovered. The trying is what counts most.

Impossible is for the unwilling

Men can labor to make sense out of single steps toward the goal without ever pausing to reflect that the goal itself is ludicrous.

The income men derive from producing things of slight consequence is of great consequence to them.

There can be few fields of human endeavor in which history counts for so little as in the world of finance.

Out of that belief, thus instilled, then comes action—the bidding up of values, whether in land, securities, or, as recently, art. The upward movement confirms the commitment to personal and group wisdom. And so on to the moment of mass disillusion and the crash. This last, it will now be sufficiently evident, never comes gently. It is always accompanied by a desperate and largely unsuccessful effort to get out. Inherent

You can do more! A lot more. If you want a...record you can be proud of, you'll do a heck of a lot more than just what you have to.

It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life.

It's hard to accuse someone of not working hard when he's got that earpiece as a constant reminder of how busy he might be. He

If at first you don't succeed - you haven't planned properly!

All wealth is the product of labor.

Haven't you known highly talented people who have squandered their potential because they wouldn't do anything? And don't you know people less talented than you who are more successful? That is often due, in part, to commitment.

These costs include the time, effort, and money spent in the process of doing business—both those incurred by the buyer in addition to the actual price paid, and those incurred by the seller in making the sale.11

I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.

If we make consistent effort, based on proper education, we can change the world.

Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.

Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself.