Quotes About Effort

He is beginning to master wisdom when he tries to learn how not to try.

The Overself is not a goal to be attained but a realization of what already is. It is the inalienable possession of all conscious beings and not of a mere few. No effort is needed to get hold of the Overself, but every effort is needed to get rid of the many impediments to its recognition

There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.

They dug and they dug, so their day went by for them, their night. And they did not praise God, who, so they heard, wanted all this, who, so they heard, knew all this. -There was Earth inside Them

Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.

Any conditioned cat-hater can be won over by any cat who chooses to make the effort. Only an unregenerate ailurophobe can't be reached. I'd say he's really sick.

It's not a hill it's a mountain, as you start out the climb

Running from the presence of God has the futility of "trying to shovel smoke with a rake".

This side of heaven good marriages are good marriages because the people in those marriages are committed to doing daily the things that keep their marriages good. Things go wrong when couples think they have reached the point when they can retire from their marital work and chill out, lie back, and slide.

His discipline, therefore, is never the result of his rejection, but the fruit of his acceptance.

A good relationship is a good relationship because the people in the relationship never quit working on the relationship.

want something hard enough and work for it, and you'll get it, but when you get it it will either prove to be not wholly what you wanted, or something will happen to spoil it.

I thought I did well for someone who has been out for 10 or 11 months. Then I was sub against Liverpool and tried to play for the guys and work on my fitness.

Low pay generally means harder work under worse conditions.

If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning and focused effort.

Writing is more than typing words: Any action that is instrumental in completing a writing project counts as writing.

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To become a great leader, you have to keep trying.

After all, it's rather difficult to achieve the exact minimum, and it involves risks.

All individual and social woes are born of passion for work.

Life may be a marathon, but sometimes you have to sprint to save a life.

Fucking things up only takes a few minutes. Making things right, now, that's a lifetime job.

Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.