Quotes About Effort

You're very difficult." He only flashed her the slightest of smiles. "Likely why you wed me. It wouldn't have done for you to have found a man simply and won him without effort.

Sometimes, he said, the important things take time, sometimes they don't just happen all at once, sometimes answers come out of time and struggle, and learning. sometimes you just have to try again in a different way.

one might dare to say that while the full stop is the lumpen male of the punctuation world (do one job at a time; do it well; forget about it instantly), the apostrophe is the frantically multi-tasking female, dotting hither and yon, and succumbing to burnout from all the thankless effort.

Yes. I tried to use the same technique with you. I didn't want to pass out.

I find attempts to create bilingual gospels laughable, in particular the attempt to translate the service from Church Slavonic into Russian. What for? In order not to make the effort and not to learn the divine, if somewhat artificial but solemn, language specially carved for this purpose? This language also provides a link with a tradition which is realized at depths and which the modern Russian language cannot plumb.

Often in that flickering room the past had come to touch her with quiet persistence, tugging at her sleeve in the effort to capture her attention

Laziness is love's opposite.

Extension of ourselves or moving out against the inertia of laziness we call work. Moving out in the face of fear we call courage.

If an act is not one of work or courage, then it is not an act of love. There are no exceptions.

Love is not effortless. To the contrary, love is effortful.

As I have defined it, love is the antithesis of laziness. Ordinary laziness is a passive failure to love. Some ordinarily lazy people may not lift a finger to extend themselves unless they are compelled to do so. Their being is a manifestation of nonlove; still, they are not evil.

And I know that I and anyone else who is not mentally defective can solve any problem if we are willing to take the time.

And no matter how seemingly healthy and spiritually evolved we are, there is still a part of us, however small, that does not want us to exert ourselves, that clings to the old and familiar, fearful of any change or effort, desiring comfort at any cost and absence of pain at any price, even if the penalty be ineffectiveness, stagnation or regression.

After greeting him I remarked, Boy, I sure admire you. I've never been able to fix those kind of things or do anything like that. My neighbor, without a moment's hesitation, shot back, That's because you don't take the time.

It is not wise to mistake great effort for productive effort

Life without struggle is a dead sea at the center of the universal organism.

Pentru ca viaÈ›a-i scurt?, cu mult? suferin??, È™i f?r? cazn? trai nu-i cu putin?? conduÈ™i de pofte È™i dorinÈ›i noi ne petrecem È™i ne roadem anii; cin` la pl?ceri renun?? doar str?danii g?seÈ™te, chin È™i suferinÈ›i; de-a lumii am?gire acela n-are È™tire, nici de-ntâmpl?ri-i sucite, de orori ce-apas? greu pe-atâÈ›ia muritori. (M?tr?guna)

Without an opportunity, their abilities would have been wasted, and without their abilities, the opportunity would have arisen in vain.

I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.

I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.

Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.

It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.

The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.

There's nothing left except to try.