Quotes About Effort

Non è un problema di fatica, di paura della fatica, di rammollimento. Ve lo ripeto: per Monsieur Bertin quella fatica era un piacere. Aveva bisogno di sentirsi stanco, di quel tour de force lo rendeva grande, e sicuro di sé.

You can't sow without plowing first. First you have to break up the earth.

Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.

I never expect a perfect work from an imperfect man.

Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.

It's really rather easy to write eighth-century Chinese poetry, said Angus Lordie. In English, of course. It requires little effort, I find.

I'd like to be tidy, said Hen, I try, but I guess you can't be what you aren't.

Insincerity had never come easily to her, but good manners required it on occasion, even if a superhuman effort was needed.

At some stage, of course, you're going to discover that good does not always triumph and that evil can very easily win the battle; I hope, though, that when that truth dawns you will be old enough and strong enough to make the deliberate effort not to believe it. Because only if we pretend that it is not true can we steel ourselves to fight against it—like those young men in the Spitfires who did not stop to consider the impossible, daunting odds and went up nonetheless.

Most people try," said Ulf. It was something that he reminded himself of regularly, as it made all the difference in your dealing with people. If you bore in mind that they were trying their best, it became that much easier to be tolerant.

Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.

People who hated often had to work quite hard at keeping their hatred warm.

There are no consequences for poor work ethic and no rewards for good work ethic.

The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.

Great people only thank you for doing the impossible; what's possible, they say they can effect themselves.

No matter how much I stir, my soup still sticks to the pot.

Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.

Discipline without direction is drudgery.

No one coasts into Christlikeness. Any progress in godliness requires Spirit-filled effort and purpose.

I like to think of the word FOCUS as Follow One Course Until Successful.

You're not born with a walk like that. You have to earn it.

Tibetans have a saying: "Engaging in virtuous practice is as hard as pulling a tired donkey up a hill, but engaging in negative, destructive activities is as easy as rolling a boulder down a steep slope."6

But you must give people time. The world can't be remade in a day." "The world won't ever be remade, if no one tries to remake it. Change must begin somewhere.

Worry never helped anything, so why turn to it during times of need? It won't nurture or heal you—quite the opposite, actually. It's so much better to put the effort into something creative as a way to quietly meditate through positive action. Create, create, create!