Quotes About Effort

The hard work we put in, externally or internally during the course of our life. Eventually pays off. Period!

And if you talk to the workmen themselves, you will soon learn that the rule in such factories is—never to do your best. "Shoddy pay—shoddy work!" this is the advice which the working man receives from his comrades upon entering such a factory.

Alguien ha dicho que el polvo es la materia que no está en su sitio. La misma definición se aplica a las nueve décimas de los llamados perezosos.

I don't wait for inspiration. I'm not, in fact, quite sure what inspiration is, but I'm sure that if it is going to turn up, my having started work is the precondition of its arrival.

No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.

I now realize that education is a last wild effort on the part of the authorities to prevent an overdose of leisure from driving the world mad. Learning is no longer an improver; it is merely the most expensive time-filler the world has ever known.

We seldom enjoy leisure we haven't earned.

If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.

The only thing what you can get, when you search for it is 'success'... But the most important tool for finding it is 'hardwork'...

Nature does not give to those who will not spend.

Nothing can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrecognized genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are the omnipotent. Calvin Coolidge 30th President

For all things there is a toll. We pay in breaths, and our purse is soon empty.

We are getting what we paid for, and if we want something else, we are going to have to pay for it, in work, sweat, and sacrifice.

Talent by itself does nothing but make a bit of noise.

Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.

The winds of grace are blowing all the time, but it is you that must raise your sails.

The winds of grace are always blowing, but it is you that must raise your sails.

El destino del hombre es equivocarse, afanarse inútilmente y sufrir, pero lo que no puede es quedar estancado; sacrifica su vida en aras de lo que considera su deber.

Nations which have got on in the world have done so by action, not by ebullition.

I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.

I had been thinking lately about evil, I went on, and was beginning to realize that it was not a product of will but of it's opposite, of surrender. It represented the relinquishing of effort, the abandonment of self-discipline in the face of desire. It was, in a way, a state of passion.

One could make almost anything happen, if one tried hard enough, but the trying - it seemed to me – was almost always a sign that one was crossing the currents, was forcing events in a direction that they did not naturally want to go, and though you might argue that nothing could ever be accomplished without going against nature to some extent, the artificiality of that vision and its consequences had become – to put it bluntly - anathema to me.

I remember when we were building the second place, and had come to start calling it that in a way I knew would never change if we carried on doing it much longer, I said to him that 'second place' pretty much summed up how I felt about myself and my life – that it had been a near miss, requiring just as much effort as victory but with that victory always and forever somehow denied me, by a force that I could only describe as the force of pre-eminence.

Sometimes it has seemed to me that life is a series of punishments for such moments of unawareness, that one forges one's own destiny by what one doesn't notice or feel compassion for; that what you don't know and don't make the effort to understand will become the very thing you are forced into knowledge of.