Quotes About Effort

In the Greek myth, Sisyphus, with great effort, rolls a large rock up a mountain. At the top, the rock, of its own inertia, rolls back down again. Doomed to roll the rock up the mountain over and over again to no avail—this is what life often feels like to those in extreme despair.

Forget perfect on the first try. In the face of frustration, your best tool is a few deep breaths, and remembering that you can do anything once you've practed two hundred times.

You only love when you love in vain. Try another radio probe when ten have failed, take two hundred rabbits when a hundred have died: only this is science. You ask the secret. It has just one name: again.

After all the trouble you go to, you get about as much actual "food" out of eating an artichoke as you would from licking 30 or 40 postage stamps.

Some days, doing "the best we can" may still fall short of what we would like to be able to do, but life isn't perfect on any front-and doing what we can with what we have is the most we should expect of ourselves or anyone else.

no pain no gain , no money no honey

It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.

You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

Success is not just the destination; it's the entire journey, every bit of it. It's not just the outcome rather it's the entire process."

Soit qu'on fasse bien ou soit qu'on fasse mal, on est toujours payé de même sorte.

I find that it is the best trade of all; for, whether we manage well or ill, we are paid just the same.

I always do the first line well, but I have trouble with the others.

Tous les discours n'avancent point les choses; il faut faire et non dire, et les effets décident mieux que les paroles.

Of course one wants to feel better. But are we willing to have new experiences? Are we willing to work for it? Do we want it bad enough?

The human problem, as Watts sees it, is the attempt to gain control of the "streaming," a habitual tension that sets up a chronic frustration, the belief that force or effort or will can solve our difficulties.

Ooit zal iedereen onherroepelijk achter de tijd aan hollen tot zijn tong zijn schoenen hangt.

Sisyphus. Have you people nothing better

Grumpiness was less time-consuming and tiring than cheeriness.