Quotes About Effort

Anytime anybody does anything - unless it's in the realm of the obviously awful, which is fun too in a different way - it is in many ways a success.

My success is the team's success. It's one of those things to a certain degree that it's effort and ability but also how I benefit from what my teammates do, and then it is up to me to perform.

Without an expectation of success, one is rarely successful.

True success requires sacrifice.

Eh bien, quand je travaille, et je travaille nuit et jour, quand je travaille, il y a des moments où je ne me souviens plus, et quand je ne me souviens plus, je suis heureux à la manière des morts: mais cela vaut encore mieux que de souffrir.

aquella carrera le resultó beneficiosa en el sentido de que a medida que el sudor inundaba su frente su corazón se enfriaba.

Dans l'un et l'autre de ces pays, on arrive par des causes différentes à ce résultat, que c'est la partie la plus généreuse, la plus active, la plus industrieuse de la nation, qui consacre ses secours à fournir de quoi vivre à ceux qui ne font rien ou font un mauvais usage de leur travail.

Again, the most effective (and least destructive) way to help a child succeed—whether she's writing or skiing, playing a trumpet or a computer game—is to do everything possible to help her fall in love with what she's doing, to pay less attention to how successful she was (or is likely to be) and show more interest in the task. That's just another way of saying that we need to encourage more, judge less, and love always.

A fight with a child is always a losing fight: he can never be beaten or won to cooperation by fighting. In these struggles the weakest always carries the day. Something is demanded of him which he refuses to give; something which can never be gained by such means. An incalculable amount of tension and useless effort would be spared in this world if we realized that cooperation and love can never be won by force.

There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.

When we reflect on these incidents in Abu Ghraib prison and beyond, it seems that torture was systematic, not aberrant, and that its widespread proliferation was symptomatic of both command decisions and a crisis in the ranks over a failing pacification effort.

God helps those who help themselves.

Life is trouble, brother. You've got to fight for what you want.

Because love is an act of will. You think it will just happen, but you have to make it so. Even when it's gone wrong. Wait and see. If love doesn't come to you, you have to go find it.

just do the best I can to face what life brings. That's the secret, you know. That's the way you change your fate.

Being happy," Uncle Tommy liked to say, "takes a great deal of work." He said he had no time for anything else.

The red velvet material was hard to work with, it pulled, and the style my mother had chosen was not easy either. She was not really a good sewer. She liked to make things; that is different. Whenever she could she tried to skip basting and pressing and she took no pride in the fine points of tailoring, the finishing of buttonholes and the overcasting of seams as, for instance, my aunt and my grandmother did.

So much in life is about almosts, not quites.

there was no sympathy for struggle that ended in defeat. Which meant there was no sympathy for struggle itself—only for "winning.

One good thing bout the way he never do any work round the place, us never miss him when he gone.

Ik deed de deur tussen ons dicht. Niemand heeft me ooit gewaarschuwd dat het zo veel energie zou vergen om die deur dicht te houden! Of dat ik me aan de andere kant ervan zo eenzaam zou voelen.

The male effort to separate Wisdom from the realm of the Feminine is not only brutal and unattractive but it will always fail, though this may take, as with Buddhism, thousands of years. This is simply because the Feminine is Wisdom; it is also the Soul.

Sve 'o?e da bude voljeno. Mi pevamo i igramo, nameštamo lice i dajemo bukete cve?a, trude?i se da budemo voljeni. Jesi l' nekad primjetila da drve?e radi sve mogu?e da privu?e pažnju, sam' što ne hoda?

Why have I spent so many hours of my life--very possibly as many as are actually recommended-- exercising ?!