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Quotes About Effort

The conjunction of effort, concentration and balance in asana forces us to live intensely in the present moment, a rare experience in modern life.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.
~ Grantland Rice
You have to compete in life because if you don't have no competition - no competition, no spirit, you know, you'll fall under the slightest struggle.
~ Mike Tyson
Almost is almost a way of life for almost everybody
~ Arthur L. Williams, Jr.
Your life's course will not be determined by doing the things that you are certain you can do. Those are the easy things. It will be determined by whether you try the things that are hard.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
Nothing that's worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that.
~ Nicholas Sparks
If you don't suffer, you don't get anything. Nothing easy in life.
~ Bikram Choudhury
If you do what is easy, your life will be hard
~ Les Brown
Nothing in this life worth achieving is easy, nor is it impossible.
~ James May
In golf, as in life, you get out of it what you put into it.
~ Sam Snead
With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A cricketer's life is a life of splendid freedom, healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good fellowship.
~ W. G. Grace
Alas, not all things in life are easy; Even man struggles to be human.
~ Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
~ Quintilian
Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.
~ Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Life isn't fair. It never will be. Quit trying to make it fair. You don't need it to be fair. Go make life unfair to your advantages.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
What is the worth of anything we do? The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender the will to change and experience life
~ Christopher Paolini
Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Love yourself and realize that whatever you attempt to achieve in Life is a direct reflection of you.
~ Joe Greene
Don't hang on to your failures, because you can always try again. Trying gives hope. Hope gives us life.
~ Tsem Tulku
The strenuous life tastes better
~ William James
The whole of my life, what they wanted was honesty. They were not concerned with cultured football, but with triers who gave one hundred percent.
~ Bob Paisley
Life is a game, kid! It all depends on how you play!
~ Mario
You get out of life what you put into it ... simple
~ Tommy Emmanuel