Quotes About Effort

With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature.

It seemed impossible that men with hearts and brains were capable of it. Such devastation of cities, so many innocent lives lost. It seemed to him that if just a small part of the effort put into war could be put into peace, they'd be so much better off

The important thing is to keep trying. And to apologize when you need to.

We can't help but make mistakes. The important thing is to keep trying. And to apologize when you need to.

You couldn't keep up with life. It was like fabric running through a sewing machine, everything slipping through your fingers and moving away from you.

But a little perspiration never hurt anyone. Especially that sort of perspiration. And that sort of perspiration was definitely one of life's simple pleasures. Well, maybe that sort of perspiration wasn't so simple, she conceded.

God's beautiful woman spares no effort to provide the best she can for her beloved family.

Something is always better than nothing" no matter how small that "something" is.

People tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will descend like fine weather if you're fortunate. But happiness is the result of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly.

Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort.

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings.

We gallop through our lives like circus performers balancing on two speeding side-by-side horses--one foot is on the horse called fate, the other on the horse called free will. And the question you have to ask every day is--which horse is which? Which horse do I need to stop worrying about because it's not under my control, and which do I need to steer with concentrated effort?

Yoga is the effort to experience one's divinity personally and then to hold on to that experience forever.

Genetic randomness had already determined how much talent I'd been allotted, and destiny's randomness would account for my share of luck. The only piece I had any control over was my discipline. Recognizing that, it seemed like the best plan would be to work my ass off. That was the only card I had to play, so I played it hard.

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort.

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it.

What you absolutely must not do is turn around and walk out. Otherwise, you will miss the party, and that would be a pity, because—please believe me—we did not come all this great distance, and make all this great effort, only to miss the party at the last moment.

Struggle explained everything.

Never apologize for it, never explain it away, never be ashamed of it. You did your best with what you knew, and you worked with what you had, in the time that you were given. You were invited, and you showed up, and you simply cannot do more than that.

Every time you express a complaint about how difficult and tiresome it is to be creative, inspiration takes another step away from you

If you show up for your work day after day after day, you just might get lucky enough some random morning to burst right into bloom.

Work with all your heart, because—I promise—if you show up for your work day after day after day after day, you

So you are industrious, but not original?

I always try to remind myself that I am having an affair with my creativity, and I make an effort to present myself to inspiration like somebody you might actually want to have an affair with—not