Quotes About Effort

Cuanto menos intentemos, menos riesgo tendremos de fracasar.

Understand: the more you want the prize, the more you must compensate by examining what getting it will take.

When you look at the exceptionally creative work of Masters, you must not ignore the years of practice, the endless routines, the hours of doubt, and the tenacious overcoming of obstacles these people endured. Creative energy is the fruit of such efforts and nothing else.

Un verso [de un poema] quizá pueda llevarnos horas; pero si no parece una inspiración del momento, todo el trabajo habrá sido en vano. LA MALDICIÓN DE ADÁN, WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, 1865-1939

In other words, concentrated practice over time cannot fail but produce results.

They experience it as an inner calling. It tends to dominate their thoughts and dreams. They find their way, by accident or sheer effort, to a career path in which this inclination can flourish.

So even when luck has only a minor influence on performance, the most talented and hardworking of all contestants will usually be outdone by a rival who is almost as talented and hardworking but also considerably luckier.

Your job today tells me nothing of your future--your use of your leisure today tells me just what your tomorrow will be.

The fact is, as the proverb says, before you can cook your rabbit you first have to catch it.

Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.

Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain... The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion... and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself--ultimate cost for perfect value

I have never known anyone else, Egwene said to him, who will work so hard to avoid hard work, Matrim Cauthon.

You got further plucking the chicken in front of you than trying to start on one up a tree. Especially when the tree was in another country and there might not even be another chicken.

The best of men are not much better than housebroken. But then, the best of them are worth the trouble of housebreaking.

Who would rule a nation when he could have easier work, such as carrying water uphill in a sieve?

A slow horse does not always reach the end of the journey

My Lady has been thinking? My Lady must have a headache from all that effort.

Oh, very well. The best of men are not much better than housebroken." Nynaeve paused, and added half to herself, "But then, the best of them are worth the trouble of housebreaking.

The best of men are not much better than housebroken." Nynaeve paused, and added half to herself, "But then, the best of them are worth the trouble of housebreaking.

prize isn't worth the arrow

He kept up a constant chatter as they hunted through the packed streets. Rand made an effort to listen, and even to say something now and then, but it was an effort. He was not tired; he did not want to sleep. He just felt as if he were drifting.

No masterwork comes without a price, he thought. That doesn't mean it's not worth forging.

Bu da baÅŸka bir denemedir.

When it comes to money, the only skill most people know is to work hard.