Quotes About Effort

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?

The ultimate goal is victory. And if you refuse to work as hard as you possibly can toward that aim, or if you do anything that keeps you from achieving that goal, then you are just cheating yourself.

Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.

The good things in this world aren't done by saints. They're done by compromised people doing the best they can.

The fan wheezes in its losing battle against the heat. But it's trying, Art thinks. It's fighting the good fight.

What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110 percent all the time.

original ideas are the easy part. Actually producing the idea as a successful product is what is hard.

Work is a four-letter word that ends with "K.

WORK is a four-lettered word, that ends with a "K

Theres always the tension between losing an audience and doing the odd things you might want to try. The effort is always to make what you write nourishing or useful to readers. You do cut out some readers by idiosyncrasies of form. I regret this.

Perception may seem effortless, but in fact it requires considerable energy. Each precious calorie you burn on perception is a calorie you must find and take from its owner—perhaps a potato or an irate wildebeest. Calories can be difficult and dangerous to procure, so evolution has shaped our senses to be misers.

A sculptor can tap-tap-tap all day and night, he often said, and remain lazy.

If work is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it, death is a powerful stimulus to work. Get done what you can.

In his journals Emerson wrote, "To every reproach I know but one answer, namely, to go again to my work. 'But you neglect your relations.' Too true, then I will work the harder. 'But you have no genius.' Yes, then I will work the harder. 'But you have detached yourself from people: you must regain some positive relation.' Yes, I will work the harder.

Perhaps all human effort is absurd. --pg112

Whosoever insists on winning must play at trivial games; no interesting victory is ever assured.

Nothing is going to be handed to you -- you have to make things happen.

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I'm finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden.

Talk without effort is nothing.

Nobody likes to fail but failure is an essential part of life and of learning. If your uniform isn't dirty, you haven't been in the game.

Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.

Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.