Quotes About Effort

Maths seem to be based on predestination. You have the question, but the answer is already there. Your task is to get it correct, no matter how many times you have failed.

Most human activities take place at the mental level, but our challenge is to manifest them at the physical level.

Practice is necessary. You can't learn to swim just by reading a book about swimming. Otherwise, you will continue to look for teachers at each stop.

Sacrifice is necessary if you want to move forward or improve your life.

Some people can bear more fruits than others depending on how you invested your time and how dedicated you were to your Beloved.

Success is only possible to those who rely least on luck.

The inspiration for writing has become so deceptive, but putting everything you've said into practice is where the burden lies.

The majority of the people do not seem to agree upon one single law that can be used with less effort in attracting the ideal life partner to us.

The only social injustice in the world is that the harder the job, the less it pays off.

The salary is not good in engineering fields, it is just compensation for your hard work and the money you paid in college or university.

The wise man always put more energy in his cause than the expected outcomes and I hope that, you will follow the same path advised by our ancestors.

There are no shortcuts to the land of success. Your input must always exceed your output. This is the only way to be able to rely less on fortune and be certain of results.

There is no fight without losing something important. All that is great requires sacrifice.

To doubt your ability is to accept failure and embrace the worst, without even trying your best.

Try to work so hard for your benefit that you can compress a week into one day.

We crowd ourselves at work, then claim that there are too many competitions in the world.

We get wet from the rain and sweat from the sun.

You must avoid looking for shortcuts in life, if you truly wish to know the full procedure of doing things.

It is more comfortable to think about all we might do instead of working to achieve what we can do.

Writing the first 90 percent of a computer program takes 90 percent of the time. The remaining ten percent also takes 90 percent of the time and the final touches also take 90 percent of the time.

Virtue, in this strict sense, is what happens when someone has made a thousand small choices, requiring effort and concentration, to do something which is good and right but which doesn't "come naturally"—and then, on the thousand and first time, when it really matters, they find that they do what's required "automatically," as we say.

Sports provide us with dangerous metaphors. A sporting contest is a contest: a game of winners and losers.

Moral effort needs mental effort, and the mental effort needs to be focused on that victory and turned into prayer for the victory to be applied today and tomorrow. The sacraments will help here, but spiritual guidance and counsel will help a great deal too.

Virtue is what happens when someone has made a thousand small choices requiring effort and concentration to do something which is good and right, but which doesn't come naturally. And then, on the thousand and first time, when it really matters, they find that they do what's required automatically. Virtue is what happens when wise and courageous choices become second nature.