Quotes About Effort

It's all very simple. But maybe because it's so simple, it's also hard.

Let's try our best? I hope that someday the many, many tears that were shed will be worth it.

In order for men to partake of the fruit of felicity,they must plant the seeds thereof.

The winter fortress was prepared for an all-out assault. All these heightened defenses signaled the importance of the atomic program to the Nazi war effort

Just what do we tax under our current system? Work, that's what. Hard work and productivity. The harder you work, the more you achieve. The more you achieve, the more you're taxed. To make matters worse, under our "progressive" income tax system, the harder you work, the more severe the punishment actually is!

I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.

The choice is not working or not working, but which type of work; even feeling guilty because of procrastinating takes some effort. When you commit to a goal, you're committing to a form of work that brings ongoing rewards. When you procrastinate, you're choosing a self-punishing form of work.

Replace "This project is so big and important" with "I can take one small step.

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.

Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion; you must set yourself on fire.

Only a mediocre man is always at his best

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In life, people tend to wait for good things to come to them. And by waiting, they miss out. Usually, what you wish for doesn't fall in your lap; it falls somewhere nearby, and you have to recognize it, stand up, and put in the time and work it takes to get to it. This isn't because the universe is cruel. It's because the universe is smart. It has its own cat-string theory and knows we don't appreciate things that fall into our laps.

It's hard enough losing with out the confusion of knowing I tried.

The next best thing to winning is losing At least you've been in the race.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another. Since

En las competiciones campo a través, el entrenamiento es más importante que cualquier talento innato, y eso me permitía compensar mi falta de aptitudes naturales por medio de la disciplina y la diligencia. Aplicaba este principio a todo lo que hacía.

Criminals were a lazy bunch. If they weren't, they'd get their MBAs and rob with impunity.

Security was now a thing of the past though it took a conscious effort to remember it; with no enemy in all the world there was little but the force of habit in it.