Quotes About Effort

Sometimes a hard day's work is easier than a lot of things you can meet in life.

No person can get very far in this life on a 40 hour week.

The answer to the big questions in running is the same as the answer to the big questions in life: Do the best with what you've got.

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Living the dream is simply a form of living out your passion, of making that passion gradually, through persistence and effort, a central part of your life.

In this life we get only those things for which we hunt, for which we strive, and for which we are willing to sacrifice.

You run and you run to catch up to the sun but it's sinking, racing around to come up behind you again.

You have to pay the price. You will find that everything in life exacts a price, and you will have to decide whether the price is worth the prize.

One should not say that it is impossible to reach a virtuous life; but one should say that it is not easy. Nor do those who have reached it find it easy to maintain.

Life is like a tennis game. You can't win without serving.

The life contest is primarily a competition for available energy.

Forget about the reasons why you can't in life and start to try

Don't judge those who try and fail. Judge only those who fail to try.

You get what you give. What you put into things is what you get out of them.

My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.

Everyone gets caught inside when surfing. You have 2 options. Give up or paddle outside. Life is the same. Keep paddling!

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.

Remember, you have only one ride through life so give it all you got and enjoy the ride.

If you fall during your life it doesn't matter because you're never a failure if you try to get up.

That which is easy is bad for your inner life.

You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is 'never try.' Homer Simpson

On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.