Quotes About Effort

Very few worthwhile things are not difficult, in some fashion

By the way, movies are like sporting events in that you're as good as the movie you're in. You can sit in a room for 20 years and go do a movie and you can just kill in it and you move to the head of the line again. By the same token, you can do five movies a year and if they're dreck, it's nothing.

Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.

Idleness is only fatal to the mediocre.

Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

We get new ideas from God every hour of our day when we put our trust in Him -- but we have to follow that inspiration up with perspiration -- we have to work to prove our faith. Remember that the bee that hangs around the hive never gets any honey.

If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

A fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them.

If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, where X is work, Y is play, and Z is keep your mouth shut.

People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.

I think it's the future. At least, it's the future we called "tomorrow." Here it is, "today": one hundred cups of effort, good intentions, small misunderstandings, stretching away from the bed and finally leading back to it.

Buff paused beneath a shut and locked window, some three feet from the ground. He gathered his waning strength f or one more effort, and sprang upward. Through the thin and cracked glass and the rotting sash he chose his way, alighting on the slimy concrete floor of the garage amid a shower of window particles.

No cesamos absurdamente de esforzarnos por conseguir riqueza o felicidad, prolongar la vida y continua salud, porque no podemos, por ningún esfuerzo, cambiar lo que está predestinado.

A man can only do what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

La mayor parte de la gente - responde Kustos - hace eso. ¿No? Trabajan para poder trabajar

They say that, if we manage to live without too great an effort, it is entirely owing to the automatism which makes us unconscious of a great part of our movements. In order to take one single step, it seems, we displace an infinite number of muscles, and yet, thanks to this automatism, we are unaware of it. The same thing happens in our relations with other people.

graba nu scurteaz? drumul, ci îl face doar mai obositor.

In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.

That the situation is hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

An unchangeable colour rules over the melancholic: his dwelling is a space the colour of mourning. Nothing happens in it. No one intrudes. It is a bare stage where the inert I is assisted by the I suffering from that inertia. The latter wishes to free the former, but all efforts fail, as Theseus would have failed had he been not only himself but also the Minotaur; to kill him then, he would have had to kill himself