Quotes About Effort

There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have to prove our worth anew each day; we have to prove that we are as good today as we were yesterday. But when we have a valid alibi for not achieving anything we are fixed, so to speak, for life.

They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor. (Eric Hoffer 1902-1983)

You can't do it right too often:author bob wyrick. A fanatic is a person who redoubles his effort after he's lost sight of his aim.

A nation's preoccupation with history is not infrequently an effort to obtain a passport for the future. Often it is a forged passport.

I am still tired, and I begin to realize that the cure for tiredness is not rest.

Marriage is hard work, and you have to show up in hard hat and boots every day of every year.

we take on the impossible and fell miserably!

People who are accomplished at anything have learned that "perfect" is the enemy of the good.

Perhaps the most surprising recent finding uncovered by the large collaborative effort on the genetics of schizophrenia is that some of the same genes that create a risk for schizophrenia also create a risk for bipolar disorder. What's more, a different group of genes that creates a risk for schizophrenia also creates a risk for autism spectrum disorders.

La vie n'est ni un jeu ni un match, sinon il y aurait des gagnants.

Nasza przesz?o?? ma taki ci??ar, jaki jej nadamy; refleksja i praca pozwalaj? uczyni? j? lekk?.

Kindness needs greater effort than dark thinking.

Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort.

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies

Without effort and willingness to experience pain and anxiety, nobody grows, in fact nobody achieves anything worth achieving.

People are confused and unsure, they seek answers to guide them to joy, tranquillity, self-knowledge, salvation?but they also demand that it be easy to learn, that it require little or no effort, that results be quickly obtained.

God explains to Jonah that the essence of love is to "labor" for something and "to make something grow

Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.

trying his best to discourage them,

Achievement, n. the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.

Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture.

In soloing--as in other activities--it is far easier to start something than to finish it.

Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets.

Someday what's easy might not be enough