Quotes About Effort

I raise my glass to karma—which, I'm realizing, is sometimes a group effort.

Our minds must make an enormous effort to find the natural sweetness of life in its fullness. The way back is at least as long as the one that brought us here. For Hobbes and Locke nature is near and unattractive, and mans movement into society was easy and unambiguously good. For Rousseau nature is distant and attractive, and the movement was hard and divided man.

As in the case of the economy, an 'invisible hand' will often be a better cultivator of ideas and allocator of effort. The challenge for intelligence officials in the Information Age is to understand how to integrate these indirect mechanisms into their operations

Men should not trust in God as if God did all, and yet labor earnestly as is he himself did all.

The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.

Talent and intelligence, not to mention tireless hard work, got lab scientists through the door, but—this was the dirty secret—you needed luck.

There are people who can make love standing on a hammock, but it is not the easiest way.

Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Men expect too much, do too little.

Without struggle there is no progress.

Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back." - Chinese proverb

If you insist on the chase," I say, my voice much surer than I feel."Then you better start training. 'Cause, dude you're in for a marathon.

All you can do is give it your best shot. That's all anyone can ever ask of you.

But while her world was soft and comfortable, offering everything I could ever want, it all came too easy. There was something to be said for patience and hard work.

Tra il suicidio e la traspirazione non esitare. Versare il proprio sangue è ammirevole quanto è immondo versare il proprio sudore.

Para qué iba a hacer un esfuerzo? Yo ya estoy bien así... Para aceptar hacer un esfuerzo, es necesario no estar satisfecho con el destino de uno.

era, sin discusión, la más graciosa: poseía esa maravillosa soltura de movimientos, que es la suprema injusticia de la naturaleza, ya que la gracia se otorga o se deniega en el momento de nacer sin que ningún esfuerzo posterior pueda paliar la ausencia de la misma.

Yes. Work is love made visible.

Work hard and party harder...

It's very easy to front 'The Weakest Link;' it takes 10 minutes to prepare. But it takes three months to prepare an hour-long history programme.

When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness.

It is the doctrine of the oligarchy that there is nothing that we hold in common, that the commonwealth is a myth, that it is even a sign of softheadedness and weakness. The oligarchical power feeds on the sense that we are all individuals, struggling on our own, and ennobled by the effort.

I always train my weaknesses and work on my shortcomings - in the gym and outside the gym. Ha!

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.