Quotes About Effort

Anything less than your best dishonors God

For some of us, one mile can be farther to walk than thirty

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

Had they put forth to maintain themselves at Port Royal the energy and resource which they exerted to escape from it, they might have laid the cornerstone of a solid colony.

Be the best. There is no second place.

Selling is the easiest job in the world if you work it hard—but the hardest job in the world if you try to work it easy.

Dried pasta from a box didn't advertise how long and hard you had labored.

A novel is an interminable effort. You think until you are weary. You write until you are ready to scream. You stop. You rest. But you have to get back to it. You have to pick up the threads, revive your enthusiasm, recapture the mood.

Hard tasks need hard ways.

But, later, coming back and reading what I have produced, I am unable to detect the difference between what came easily and when I had to sit down and say, Well, now it's writing time and now I'll write.

They tried and failed, all of them?" "Oh, no." She shook her head. "They tried and died.

Moram brže tr?ati. Povijest je neprestana utrka izme?u izuma i katastrofe. Školovanje pomaže, ali nikad nije dovoljno. Moraš i tr?ati.

Orice drum parcurs pân? la cap?t duce exact nic?ieri. Escaladeaz? muntele doar atât cât s? te convingi c? e munte. Din vârful muntelui nu poÈ›i s? vezi muntele.

Pain is a function of nerves, Idaho reminded himself. Pain comes as light comes to the eyes. Effort comes from the muscles, not from nerves. It was an old mentat drill and he completed it in the space of one breath

So many of our troubles flow from a defective use of the intelligence or will or energy we have, that we are in danger of thinking that all our troubles could be cured by a better use of our own powers—

But I wish we could throw off some excess weight." Joe eyed Chet slyly.

I am not well; I could have built the Pyramids with the effort it takes me to cling on to life and reason.

I am too tired, I must try to rest and sleep, otherwise I am lost in every respect. What an effort to keep alive! Erecting a monument does not require an expenditure of so much strength.

One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.

It's sometimes quite astonishing that a single, average life is enough to encompass so much that it's at all possible ever to have any success in one's work here.

I could have built the Pyramids with the effort it takes me to cling on to life and reason.

There were dark hours, of course, such as came to everybody, in which you thought you had achieved nothing at all, in which it seemed to you that only the cases predestined from the start to seucceed came to a good end, which they would have reached in any event without your help, while every one of the others was doomed to fail in spite of all your manœuvres, all your exertions, all the illusory little victories on which you plumed yourself.

Yet even if I manage that, one single slip, and a slip cannot be avoided, will stop the whole process, easy and painful alike, and I will have to shrink back into my own circle again.

Oh, God", he thought, "what a strenuous career it is that I've chosen! Travelling day in and day out. Doing business like this takes much more effort than doing your own business at home, and on top of that there's the curse of travelling, worries about making train connections, bad and irregular food, contact with different people all the time so that you can never get to know anyone or become friendly with them. It can all go to Hell!