Quotes About Effort

If we suddenly become successful almost effortlessly, then people are envious. It really annoys them that we didn't have to go through all kinds of anguish, pain, and suffering to get there. Their mind believes that such anguish is the cost that must be paid for success.

By experience, we know what it is to plant our faces in the floor and plead for God to accomplish the work that our best efforts in preaching cannot.

It is not that practice makes perfect but that practice is perfect, combining effort with an openness to grace.

The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in war.

Mindfulness is a habit, it's something the more one does, the more likely one is to be in that mode with less and less effort…it's a skill that can be learned. It's accessing something we already have. Mindfulness isn't difficult. What's difficult is to remember to be mindful.

I have a lot of money, many millions some earned and more inherited. What I don't have is a desire to work. I'm not sure where I left it, but it's been missing for a while, and I haven't searched real hard.

respond that we unfortunately seem to be running

Trying to save Western society was exhausting.

When I look at a lot of older stuff that I've written, I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when you see people trying too hard.

I keep a box in which I store his artwork and writings, like his response to an assignment in which he has been asked if you should always try your best. "I don't think you should always try your best all the time," he writes, "because, let's say a drug atick asks you for drugs you should not try your best to find him some drugs." Another assignment that goes into the box is

It's not that I'm so smart," Albert Einstein once said. "It's just that I stay with problems longer." Einstein's simple statement is a clarion call for all who seek greatness, for themselves or their children. In the end, persistence is the difference between mediocrity and enormous success.

sergeant thinking about an excellent detective who's threatening to quit) For a squad sergeant, having Worden working for you was like having sex: When it was good it was great and even when it wasn't so hot, it was still pretty damn good.

his attempts at baking being closer to brickmaking than bread.

Como todo en la vida, sólo lo que puede salir mal merece la pena intentarse.

Yo no respondí pero pensé que la diversión deja de ser diversión cuando se vuelve obligatoria. Tener veinte años sin tener veinte años era un esfuerzo que no me tentaba.

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Very well," replied Auntie Flip. "I came ninety-seventh!" "Congratulations. Ninety-seventh!" "Thank you." Flip blushed with pride. "How many entrants were there?" "Ninety-eight," replied Frank.

Don't go into the relationship expecting it to be perfect, only to be let-down and angry once you all realize that y'all have work to do.

struggle and striving always came before success, even in the dictionary.

Effort showed that he wanted the relationship just as bad as she wanted it. Effort reminded a woman that she was not alone, and provided her with the fuel needed in order to match her man's strength. A woman couldn't match a man who couldn't show her what to match.

Strange isn't it, people spend their time making nice things and other people come along and brake them.

Hard fun is, of course, the idea that we take pleasure in accomplishing something difficult: the joy in meeting and mastering a challenge. As a result, when someone is doing something that is hard fun, moment by moment it looks more like "work" than "fun," but the net effect is pleasurable overall.

People like me know that there is no magic. There is only the grind. Work looks like magic to those unwilling to do it.

Yes. That, right there, is the difference between the heroes and the nobodies. The difference between people like you and people like me. People like me know that there is no magic. There is only the grind. Work looks like magic to those unwilling to do it.