Quotes About Effort

It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one's bed and there, abandoning all effort and all resistance, to bury even one's head under the cover, giving one's self up to it completely, moaning like branches in the autumn wind. But there is still a better bed, full of divine odors. It is our sweet, our profound, our impenetrable friendship.

Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.

Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.

One must labor for beauty as for bread

Don't be afraid of making mistakes or failing. You never really fail anyway unless you actually give up and quit!

Really good anything takes timing.

We strive for the best we can attain within the scope the world allows.

It's hard to light a candle, easy to curse the dark instead

The problem with fighting at a lower level is that it doesn't simulate reality well. You want to train harder than real combat, not easier.

No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All admit irregularity as they imply change; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort. There must be the will to produce a superior thing.

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

Imperfections have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be effort, and the law of human judgment mercy.

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… Quality also marks the search for an ideal after necessity has been satisfied and mere usefulness achieved.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

Therefore, to every spirit which Christianity summons to her service, her exhortation is: Do what you can, and confess frankly what you are unable to do; neither let your effort be shortened for fear of failure, nor your confession silenced for fear of shame.

Quality is more important than quantity as it is always the result of intelligent effort

Well, Lily, we must go through a little dreadfulness, that's a fact: no road to any good knowledge is wholly among the lilies and the grass; there is rough climbing to be done always.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated

but failed, and

THEY SPENT FORTY-FIVE MINUTES plowing through the minutiae of the campaign.

Space junk had made low Earth orbit space almost unusable by the mid-thirties, and it had taken a decade of concerted and costly international effort to clear out the big stuff.