Quotes About Effort

For since, with a little well-directed effort, one can change the movements of the brain in animals devoid of reason, it is clear that this can be done even more successfully in human beings, and that even those who have the weakest souls could acquire a very absolute command of all their passions, if one were to take the trouble to train them and guide them properly.

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

To be resolutely " anti-modern " is not to be anti-Western. in any sense of the word; it means, on the contrary, making the only effort that can be of any value to save the West from its own confusion.

Au travail, le plus difficile, c'est d'allumer la petite lampe du cerveau. Après, ça brûle tout seul.

Man's brain, enlarged fortuitously, invented words in an ambitious effort to learn how to think, only to have them usurped by his emotions. But we still try." -- Nero Wolf in Death of a Dude.

Excellence is always a matter of effort, and no one is capable of more than a certain amount of effort.

You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love." Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)

Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Action will sometimes be required, but if you're really doing it in line with what the Universe is trying to bring to you, it's going to feel joyous. You're going to feel so alive. Time will just stop. You could do it all day

The difference between inspired action and action is this: Inspired action is when you are acting to receive. If you are in action to try and make it happen, you have slipped backward. Inspired action is effortless, and it feels wonderful because you are on the frequency of receiving.

I know ladies don't sweat, but something was running down my face in great rivulets.

At last he said, "I've been fourteen years on the police force. I've learned from seasoned veterans. I've handled all types of criminal cases. But my wife, newly arrived from the backwoods of Ireland, manages to tie up all my unsolved cases for me with apparently no effort at all. I should just quit my job and stay home looking after the babies while you go out to work for us.

We have been trained to believe that change isn't easy and requires a lot of effort and a lot of time. I've always found this to be simply not true.

Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.

Surely love is both work and wages.

I]f thou loiter when thou shouldst labour, thou wilt lose the crown. O fall to work then speedily and seriously, and bless God that thou hast yet time to do it; and though that which is past cannot be recalled, yet redeem the time now by doubling thy diligence (260).

Are you not in a race; and is not the prize the crown of glory; and should you then sit still or take your ease? (281)

Brethren, experience will teach you that men are not made learned or wise without hard study, unwearied labors, and experience.

God does not need to provide any resources for what you are not doing.

You're guaranteed to miss every shot you don't take.

hard-won things are more valuable than those that come too easily.

As you pursue your career, your efforts may sometimes meet with failure. Don't be discouraged -- one of the best ways to learn how to do anything is to make mistakes. It took time and a lot of errors before I achieved any successes.

In future just remember one thing: you're guaranteed to miss every shot you don't take.

Following through and establishing a baseline of unspoiling takes more work than does maintaining it.