Quotes About Effort

Good luck. Maybe that's all it was. Maybe the whole of life depended not on how hard you tried, how determined you were, how sensible, how smart: maybe the whole shooting match depended on luck.

What are you doing?" "Can't you see? I'm sawing down this tree." "You look exhausted! How long have you been at it?" "Over five hours, and I'm beat! This is hard work." "Well, why don't you take a break and sharpen that saw? I'm sure it would go a lot faster." "I don't have time to sharpen the saw. I'm too busy sawing!"[*]

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

THE TAHITIANS don't have a word that means "art." The closest expression in their language translates to something like "I'm doing the best I can." Ever since I heard this it has become a kind of mantra to me. I try and apply it to my own work, to my students and anyone who shares his or her work with me. If we live with the idea of perfection, we will never do anything. The notion paralyzes us, but doing the best we can, this is possible. I

It's clearly easier to get the snake out of the sack than it is to shove it back.

designing the effort to fit the constraints, rather than computing the constraints from the design, is absolutely the most effective way to achieve reliable delivery.

We must make a heroic effort to rid our lives of all but one motive, that "impractical" spirituality of the saints, a life in union with God.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

All of the heroes you see falling down were filmed trying to stand up.

The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.

None strive to know their proper merit But strain for wisdom, beauty, spirit And lose the praise that is their due When they've the impossible in view

There is no right," she says. "There's the best you can do. And that's fine. That's normal.

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.

Maybe all men should have to fight for something sometime in their lives. I'm thirty-three years old and I've never had to fight for a blessed thing, have I?

Busy hands and idle minds have knitted many a sweater; Busy minds and idle hands have knitted many a brow.

Agatha Swanburne - "Do your best before lunch and do your best after lunch. During lunch, have a sandwich.

Agatha Swanburne - "Doing your best is no cause for regret.

For those who don't believe in themselves, hardwork is worthless." -Maito Gai (Naruto)

Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

como afirma Cicerón. Me siento satisfecho sabiendo que, sin importar el resultado real, estoy haciendo todo lo que puedo.

Shift your goals from the external to the internal: repeat to yourself that your objective is not to hit the target, but to deliver the best shot of which you are capable

Real ethical development is hard work and takes a long time.