Quotes About Effort

Thinking is the toughest kind of work which is why so many people avoid it.

Success is simple, but isn't easy because it demands execution, not intentions.

You will never know what could have been done until you start doing what needs to be done.

The only thing tougher than developing leadership skills is attempting to be successful without them.

It's absurd to be upset by a lack of results when the cause is a lack of activity.

Those who row the boat don't have time to rock it while those who rock it don't have time to row it.

I stopped paying the price for success and started enjoying the price for success.

You cannot be upset about results you don't have from work you didn't do.

If talent is the floor and character the ceiling, then work-ethic is the altitude of personal achievement.

If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.

That man is intellectually of the mass who, in face of any problem, is satisfied with thinking the first thing he finds in his head. On the contrary, the excellent man is he who contemns what he finds in his mind without previous effort, and only accepts as worthy of him what is still far above him and what requires a further effort in order to be reached.

For me, then, nobility is synonymous with a life of effort, ever set on excelling oneself, in passing beyond what one is to what one sets up as a duty and an obligation. In this way the noble life stands opposed to the common or inert life, which reclines statically upon itself, condemned to perpetual immobility, unless an external force compels it to come out of itself. Hence we apply the term mass to this kind of man- not so much because of his multitude as because of his inertia.

The few individuals who are capable of spontaneous and joyous effort stand out. These are the select men, the nobles, the only ones who are active and not merely reactive, for whom life is a perpetual striving, an incessant course of training.

Learning is a another name of vanity, It is the effort of human beings not to be human beings.

When an artist is pumped up with the intention of creating a masterpiece, however, the work generally comes out poorly,

All men are alike... I believe that all of the so-called "anxiety of the age" — men frightened by one another, every known principle violated, effort mocked, happiness denied, beauty defiled, honor dragged down — originates in this one incredible expression.

I managed to maintain on the surface a smile which never deserted my lips; this was the accommodation I offered to others, a most precarious achievement performed by me only at the cost of excruciating efforts within.

Learning is another name for vanity. It is the effort of human beings not to be human beings.

We have a vague notion of the best place we should go, or the beautiful places we should like to see, or the kinds of places that would make us grow as a person. We yearn for a good life. We have real hopes and ambitions. We feel impatient for an unshakable faith that we can rely on. But it would require considerable effort to express such things in our typical life as a girl.

All of us say such things when we're at our wit's end! We're all doing our best to survive.

Humans are sorry, pitiful beings. No matter whether we succeed or fail, are intelligent or dimwitted, win or lose: we will harden our expressions and exert our strength, running around sweating from morning to evening, and meanwhile only grow older.

Failed attempt is just one step closer to finding a solution. Keep working through the failure, it will just be one step closer to success.

Luck will do nothing for you if you're not consistently earning the right to receive it.

Self-discipline is hard, and the more projects you have on your plate, the more your willpower will have to stretch.