Quotes About Effort

Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.

Life is a battlefield. I don't have enough time on the planet to play games.

What inspires me in life? The idea that the work and the rewards and the process is the thing.

You can achieve much in life if you don't mind doing the work and giving someone else the credit.

Life isn't just to be found, you have to work for it.

Life's greatest adventure is in doing one's level best.

Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.

If there's even one thing we can do - even one life we can save - we have an obligation to try

When people don't have an objective, there's much less dynamic effort, and that makes life a lot less interesting.

Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results.

To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.

life is limited so people will appreciate it because there's a limit, we would try our best to live.

Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.

Replace perfectionism with persistence. After all, in recovery and life, it's persistence that really pays off. Forget about perfection.

The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.

Writing fiction is an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain't enough!

The studying, the books, exams, arguments, theories. The jokes and pints, laughter, kisses and songs. Life was like running, ninety percent sweat and toil, ten per cent joy.

The Compound Effect will help you beat the competition, rise above your challenges, and create the life you deserve!

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

It is very difficult to make the ideas in my head come to life, but what is harder is making them look effortless.

You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.

Happiness isn't a one-size-fits-all proposition. You must define what it looks like for you and then make a conscious effort to access whatever gets you to your unique definition of joy.

The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. .... There are no back doors, no free rides. There's just you, this moment and a choice.