Quotes About Effort

It is not so easy as running and not running.

I shall practice, that I may dazzle you when next we meet." There was a little silence, and Luthe said, "You need not try to dazzle me.

Poor Mom. At least she was trying. I realized that I was grateful for the useless tangle, even if it was useless. Because she was doing something. She hadn't averted her eyes from the fact that I needed help. She merely had no clue how much help, or what kind.

Oh, big surprise. Something wasn't going to be easy. I tried to rouse myself, to react. I failed.

Despite arguments between Easterners, who wanted an offensive anywhere but France, and Westerners, who believed that an offensive anywhere else was a waste of effort, it was generally accepted that the Germans could only be decisively defeated on the Western Front, not least because that was where most of them were.

You'll never know what you can achieve until you try. Just never, ever give up.

Because the moment you stop doing the very things that got you to the top of the mountain is the very moment you begin the slid down to the valley.

How high you will rise in your life will be determined not by how hard you work but by how well you think.

Everyone dreams of being a legend until it comes time to do the work that legends do.

Success cannot be pursued; success ensues. It flows as the unintended byproduct of efforts concentrated in the direction of a worthy cause.

for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die. For the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It's a sort of splendid torch which I've got to hold up for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Ideas are worth nothing unless backed by application. The smallest of implementations is always worth more than the grandest of intentions.

Sweat more in practice, bleed less in war.

No idea works until you do the work

work harder to produce better'—is seriously flawed. It isn't sustainable. It just leads to burnout. Exhaustion.

You can't win a game you don't play

We will have eternity to celebrate the victories but only a few hours before sunset to win them." —Amy Carmichael

Titles don't interest me at all. Doing my best work is all that matters to me. And I don't need to have any formal authority to do that.

you cannot pursue success; success ensues.

The smallest of actions is always better than the boldest of intentions.

ambition without implementation is a ridiculous delusion.

If you just keep doing your best and letting life do the rest, accepting whatever comes, with the knowledge that it's for your highest good, life will work out wonderfully. Better than expected, actually.

What is luck, my friend?" Julian replied kindly. "It is nothing more than the marriage of preparation with opportunity.

Success and joy and inner peace don't just show up. You need to create them.