Quotes About Effort

No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work.

People who believe a problem can be solved tend to get busy solving it.

Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.

By the 1990s, Ericsson's research was demonstrating2 that the same phenomenon he had first discovered among concert violinists also applied to the creation of innovations: that the cost of becoming consistently productive at creative inventing is ten thousand hours of practice—five to seven years—just as it is for music, athletics, and chess.

There are two ways to get to the top of an oak tree: You can sit on an acorn and wait for it to grow, or you can climb the tree.

The concept of surfaces and gaps is one of several concepts that bear on tactics. It is of the same level of importance as mission tactics and the main effort, which will be the subjects of the two tactics lessons following this one. All of the concepts should be constantly at work during the execution of battle.

Lest too light winningMake the prize light.

We may outrun By violent swiftness And lose by over-running.

Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.

No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en;In brief, sir, study what you most affect.

This sweaty hasteDoth make the night joint-laborer with the day.

In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft,I shot his fellow of the selfsame flightThe selfsame way with more advised watch,To find the other forth, and by adventuring both,I oft found both.

The very life-blood of our enterprise.

I have had my labor for my travail.

And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.

The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything — and it works.

The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works.

Everybody is tense. Tad does his best to

Art is the effort to appreciate and express the God who is its Beauty.

There's no end to the absurd things people will do trying to make life mean something.

His high endeavors are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright.

we should see the earth Unthwarted in her wish to recompense The industrious