Quotes About Effort

The prize and the punishment are incentives toward unnatural or forced effort, and, therefore we certainly cannot speak of the natural development of the child in connection with them. The

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

Human life – an Everest that all sorts of thoughts and desires are trying to climb.

A veces parece que el camino más arduo de la guerra es el que conduce a la paz.

If you had to find the time, you would.

You can scare yourself into stuckness by assuming you have to make radical life changes in order to make progress. You don't. Real change is practically invisible as it's happening. No trumpets sound. A marching band will not play at your door. Meaningful progress doesn't feel particularly exciting. Most days, it feels like work. You show up, grind it out (sometimes joyfully, sometimes not), and repeat.

Most of us start out with a positive attitude and a plan to do our best.

Step by step a mountain is conquered.

It is not work that kills men

Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort.

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

If you don't make mistakes you are not really trying.

exercise will never be my lover. Or even my friend. For me, a workout is more like an annoying coworker I have to see a few times a week.

When you do hit the gym, you should push yourself. This is what makes fitness phenomena so interesting.

A sweet life is a sweaty life.

Change doesn't come in nickels and dimes. It comes in dedication and sweat.

Diet food is for lazy people.

Those places I don't understand, just doing bad food. It takes some doing. Making good pasta is so much easier than making bad stuff. It actually takes quite an effort to make poor linguine pomodora.

There can be no permanent progress in the battle against hunger until the agencies that fight for increased food production and those that fight for population control unite in a common effort.

Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.

Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.

There's forgiveness if you ask forgiveness, you truly repent, and you do make an honest effort not to do that anymore.

The real trouble about the duty of forgiveness is that you do it with all your might on Monday and then find on Wednesday that it hasn't stayed put and all has to be done over again.

What strange perversity is it that induces a man to set his heart on doing those things which he has not succeeded in and makes him slight those in which his achievement has been respectable.