Quotes About Effort

Perfection is too high a goal to strive for. Sometimes working hard brings more satisfaction in the end. We appreciate what we've almost lost more than what we've never doubted.

No hay nada que merezca la pena y sea fácil a la vez.

The difference between being ordinary and being extraordinary is that little extra.

An arrow is never afraid of shooting from the bow; but it is afraid of not reaching the target!

Attack work! Even the toughest work will start running away! Attack the difficulties! This is the Golden Rule of every kind of victory.

Both half success and half failure must be considered as a full failure!

Do the difficult thing; you can then have something that you can be truly proud of!

Every man is free to push the mountains, but mountains won't move with these pushes.

For an apple you can't reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won't bend down for you!

God generously helps to those who try to do their best without asking God's help!

God helps to those who try to do their best without asking God's help!

How very much horrible would it be, if achieving everything was so easy! We bear life because there is struggle!

However steep or ramshackle they may be, don't ever despise the stairs which take you up to higher levels!

Let your works climb the stars; but you yourself stay on the ground!

Some fool aims to go to heaven; some clever knows that there isn't any; and some intelligent tries to create one with his own effort! Be intelligent!

The key to success is not to seek for a particular key to success!

The most beautiful garden is always the one that we have made it with our own efforts!

There is no pleasure in flying to the top! The pleasure is climbing up there step by step, feeling every single muscle!

To be sure, this requires effort and love, a careful cultivation of the spiritual life, and a watchful, honest, active oversight of all one's mental attitudes towards things and people. It is not to be learned by world-flight, running away from things, turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, one must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind.

The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.

If water could talk, there'd be some trace of all these years. It would tell of all it had taught him. How the lightest, most transparent things are heavy. How much effort it takes to contain what cannot be held; water runs through your fingers, so you find yourself empty-handed and still thirsty. But as water has no memory, no trace of his rage and loneliness will remain. He has lost those years forever.

Indugia. Aspetta. Tra la disperazione e la speranza c'è solo un attimo. Quando cerchi di evitare qualcosa, è proprio questo sforzo che te la fa fronteggiare. Abbi coraggio......

Since when do you look at the side of wonder?" "I'm trying very hard. It's irritating me, but I'm not giving up. I try to think of a wondrous thought every day when I wake, if you'd really like to know." "Yes, it's very annoying, but slightly contagious.

Comfort zones are overrated. They make you lazy.