Quotes About Effort

One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one's greatest efforts.

Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.

The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.

The value of achievement lies in the achieving.

K? nào chÆ°a t?ng m?c ph?i lá»—i l?m cÅ©ng là k? chÆ°a bao gi? thá»­ làm vi?c gì c?

The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind is akin to that of the religious worshiper or the lover; the daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart.

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

The identity of the city, because of the laws that define it, depends on some sort of banning or exclusion. The individual identity required the reverse: a constant effort of inclusion, a story reminding Gilgamesh that, in order to know who one is, we need two .

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

The more stitches, the less riches.

Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

Pully, hauly, tug with a will; the gods wiggle waggle, but the sky stands still.

The harder we try with the conscious will to do something, the less we shall succeed.

Kebahagiaan adalah produk sampingan yang kita peroleh dalam proses mengerjakan sesuatu yang lain.

The harder we try with the conscious will to do something, the less we shall succeed. Proficiency and results come only to those who have learned the paradoxical art of doing and not doing, or combining relaxation with activity.

Can you say something about nothing? That's what it finally boils down to. I try and I try.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

Da se napiše loša knjiga, treba isto toliko truda kao i da se napiše dobra.

One can't have something for nothing. Happiness has got to be paid for.

One can't have something for nothing.

After an outburst, she would settle down and try to love him as reasonably as she could, making the best of his kindness, his rather detached and separate passion, his occasional and laborious essays at emotional intimacy, and finally his intelligence - that quick, comprehensive, ubiquitous intelligence that could understand everything, including emotions it could not feel and the instincts it took care not to be moved by.

In all psychophysical skills we have this curious fact of the law of reversed effort: the harder we try, the worse we do the thing.

Giovani fortunati! — disse il Governatore. — Non è stata risparmiata nessuna fatica per rendere le vostre vite facili dal punto di vista emotivo; per preservarvi, nei limiti del possibile, dal provare qualsiasi emozione.

Practise a thousand times, and it becomes difficult; a thousand thousand, and it becomes easy; a thousand thousand times a thousand thousand, and it is no longer Thou that doeth it, but It that doeth itself through thee.