Quotes About Effort

The whole of human history was full of people who tried against the odds. Some succeeded, most failed, but that hadn't stopped them.

imagined seeing herself as just another brilliant freak of nature. Just another sentient animal, trying their best. And in doing so, she imagined what it was like to be free.

Legacy. What a meaningless thing. All that work for a future in which they don't appear.

Total fame was when you reached the point where looking like a hero, or genius, or god, required minimal effort.

Life is a Sisyphean race, run ever faster toward a finish line that is merely the start of the next race

Vain is the effort to forget. Some day I shall be cold, I know, As is the eternal moonlit snow Of the high Alps, to which I go-- But ah, not yet, not yet! Vain is the agony of grief. 'Tis true, indeed, an iron knot Ties straitly up from mine thy lot, And were it snapt--thou lov'st me not! But is despair relief?

I slip from workaholic to bum real easy.

Marriage takes work, otherwise you're home together all day.

Only when we discover that the pain of being the way we are is greater than the pain of trying to change will we put forth the effort necessary to make significant progress on our inward journey.

Every disciplined effort has its own multiple reward.

Working halfheartedly may reap you the same financial compensation as working with all your heart and soul, but it will slowly begin to rot your heart and mind and soul. Humans were not designed for halfheartedness

doesn't stop, but he slows down. "How are you?

Working halfheartedly may reap you the same financial compensation as working with all your heart and soul, but it will slowly begin to rot your heart and mind and soul.

Working halfheartedly may reap you the same financial compensation as working with all your heart and soul, but it will slowly begin to rot your heart and mind and soul. Humans were not designed for halfheartedness. So often I have heard people talk about how they will get back at their boss by being lazy or dragging their feet on a project. This is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

Take some small action. Resistance hates action.

Remember - try to stay focused on progress, not perfection.

nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

Almost all of it was a reconstruction of recent vintage, part of the government's effort to increase tourist revenue after the devastation of the Cultural Revolution.

His noble negligences teachWhat others' toils despair to reach.

One of the things I have come up against time and again in my career is the notion that because a book is easy to read it was somehow easy to write .

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The human beings I know are mostly wonderful people, but they often fail to distinguish clearly between what they worked for and the good things that came their way. They also are not so good at seeing the difference between the character flaws of other people and bad things that happen to them.

The point wasn't always to do what you want. The point was to do what you did and to do it well. She had worked hard for years, and if she had nothing to show for it but her house and her son's education, there was still the fact of its having happened, which no one could erase from the record of human lives, even if no one was keeping one.

achieving durable happiness as a way of being is a skill. It requires sustained effort in training the mind and developing a set of human qualities, such as inner peace, mindfulness, and altruistic love.