Quotes About Effort

The hardest work is to go idle.

Slump I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.

I tell the kids, somebody's gotta win, somebody's gotta lose. Just don't fight about it. Just try to get better.

It's 90% mental. The other half is physical

For every beautiful thing, you have to pass through a valley of hardship. There is no liberation without labor. There is no freedom which is free. To create in you the power to create the intelligence which will give you power to be effective in your own living and give you satisfaction in your own joy, you have to work for it, you have to earn it. E

Solving a problem for which you know there's an answer is like climbing a mountain with a guide, along a trail someone else has laid.

He discounted the value of his own efforts, and seemed to feel that anyone would have done the same.

Unhappiness and misfortune attend those who are voluntarily feeble. "Their defect deprived them of the joy derived from happy efforts. They will be the prey of duplicity and untruth. "They are the vanquished in life, and scarcely deserve the pity of the conqueror; for their defeat lacks grandeur, since it has never been aurioled by the majestic strength of conflict.

There's not much benefit in attacking an empty house.

The only miracles of any value are the ones you work.

We had two field goals and a touchdown and they had five field goals. So ... for us, to lose to a team kicking five field goals was like --? that was an extra slap in the face. It was like, it was the Giants, No. 1. No. 2, it was our three-peat. No. 3, we fumbled with it kind of in our hands. And we got beat by five field goals. It was rough to say the least.

Thus in a single phrase I can define the great illusion concerning 'love' in this world. It is the effort to join reality with the apparition.

Thus in a single phrase I can define the great illusion concerning 'love' in this world. It is the effort to join reality with the apparition. Presently I came to realize that my conviction—the conviction that I could never be loved-was itself the basic state of human existence

As a species, humans prefer power to truth. We spend far more time and effort on trying to control the world than on trying to understand it—and even when we try to understand it, we usually do so in the hope that understanding the world will make it easier to control it.

if some issue seems exceptionally important to you, make the effort to read the relevant scientific literature.

When Epicurus defined happiness as the supreme good, he warned his disciples that it is hard work to be happy.

Whenever they decided to do a bit of extra work – say, to hoe the fields instead of scattering seeds on the surface – people thought, 'Yes, we will have to work harder. But the harvest will be so bountiful! We won't have to worry any more about lean years. Our children will never go to sleep hungry.' It made sense. If you worked harder, you would have a better life. That was the plan.

There's no difference between a pessimist who says, 'It's all over, don't bother trying to do anything, forget about voting, it won't make a difference,' and an optimist who says, 'Relax, everything is going to turn out fine.' Either way the results are the same. Nothing gets done.

KaynaÄŸa ulaÅŸmak için ak?nt?ya kar?? yüzmeli. Ak?nt?yla yüzüp giden ÅŸey çöptür sadece.

If you always do the easy and comfortable thing, life ends up being difficult and uncomfortable. If you do the difficult and uncomfortable thing, however, life ends up being easy and comfortable.

Overnight success happens only in fairy tales, trashy novels, and bad movies.

They're not willing to admit that I've also shed blood and tears and often paid dearly for my success. This makes me feel extremely sad.

Hard work gives marvellous outcome.

A good completion takes a long time; a bad completion cannot be changed later.