Quotes About Effort

Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion.

Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster. Now we're paying the price. When you try to climb a mountain to prove how big you are, you almost never make it.

Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.

It's so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.

Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster… When you try to climb a mountain to prove how big you are, you almost never make it. And even if you do it's a hollow victory. In order to sustain the victory you have to prove yourself again and again in some other way, and again and again and again, driven forever to fill a false image, haunted by the fear that the image is not true and someone will find out. That's never the way.

We often rush when we should plod, forgetting that we usually accomplish more by persisting than by hurrying.

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Het valt niet te ontkennen dat wij in elke afzonderlijke tak van het menselijk kunnen zo veel vooruitgang boeken dat wij terecht het gevoel hebben het niet bij te kunnen houden; zou het niet mogelijk zijn dat daaruit ook het gevoel ontstaat dat wij geen vooruitgang beleven? Uiteindelijk is vooruitgang niets anders dan het resultaat van alle gezamenlijke inspanningen, en eigenlijk kun je dus al van tevoren zeggend at de werkelijke vooruitgang altijd juist dat zal zijn wat niemand wilde.

Talent should not imply a need for great exertion. =

But the first one had not been successful. It had not been successful because in the midst of the process I tried to discover the truth and not the facts.

Maybe mountaineering shouldn't be considered heroic at all, since the whole effort is 'useless' and in no way to be compared with sitting down at the wrong lunch counter in the early-sixties South, or going into battle. Nevertheless, situations arise in the useless enterprise of mountaineering that present people with choices, that make emotional and physical demands that few can meet.

It was the same in just about every trade. Sooner or later someone decided it needed organizing, and the one thing you could be sure of was that the organizers weren't going to be the people who, by general acknowledgment, were at the top of their craft. They were working too hard. To be fair, it generally wasn't done by the worst, neither. They were working hard, too. They had to.

I tried to be good to Judith, I tried to be kind and loving, but our hatred kept coming between us.

The only difference between a rich person and a poor person is what they do in their spare time . . . When at work, work hard, but remember that what you do after work with your pay cheque and your spare time will determine your future.

Thinking is the hardest work there is. That is why so few people engage in it.

Life is much like going to the gym. The most painful part is deciding to go. Once you get past that, it's easy.

Remember, the easy road often becomes hard, and the hard road often becomes easy.

As Henry Ford said, Thinking is the hardest work there is. That is why so few people engage in it.

One of the quotes credited to Ford goes: Thinking is the hardest work there is. That is why so few people engage in it.

Luck is created. So go create yours.

Taxes punish those who produce and reward those who don't produce.

The trouble with selling your labor for money is that there is only so much you can do.

It cost a valuable asset, my time, to go out looking for them.

In the Information Age, the people who work the hardest physically will be paid the least. It is already true today and has been true throughout history.