Quotes About Effort

If success were easy, everyone would do it. It takes effort. That fact works to your advantage because it keeps lazy people out of the game.

had worked so hard to bring about, that Lawrence was suddenly

If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes.

Just try to keep up.

I am not sure, I answered. I hope it won't break my heart if I don't do well. I had been concentrating on developing that kind of attitude since I'd emerged from my depression in November. I'd realized how much I had taken the achievement ethic to heart - I had been so hard on my mistakes and middling performances. A sincere effort was all I owed myself.

Dr. Pafko said 'I did some things to solve the problem'?" This

Barking hard work, being a boy.

I'm not against thinking; I'm only against thinking that thinking on its own will get you out of a hole. Shovel also needed.

Alek said, Do you think I'm being a fool? I think you're trying to do something good. But doing good is rarely easy, and no weapon has ever stopped a war.

Hoverboarding looks so fun, like being a bird. But actually doing it is hard work. Shay shrugged. Being a bird's probably hard work too. Flapping your wings all day, you know?

Erfolg hat drei Buchstaben: TUN!

The human race is but a monotonous affair. Most ofthemlabour the greater part oftheir time for mere subsistence; and the scanty portion of freedomwhich remains to themso troubles themthat they use every exertion to get rid ofit.

Whoever strives in ceaseless toil, Him we may grant redemption

But when, in spite of weakness and disappointments, we set to work in earnest, and persevere steadily, we often find, that, though obliged continually to tack, we make more way than others who have the assistance of wind and tide; and, in truth, there can be no greater satisfaction than to keep pace with others or outstrip them in the race.

The Lord: Whilst still man strives, still must he stray

The deed is everything, the glory nothing.

Like star that shines afar, slowly now, and without rest, let each man turn with steady sway, around the task that rules the day, and do his best.

Men get out of countenance with themselves and others because they treat the means as the end, and so, from sheer doing, do nothing, or, perhaps, just what they would have avoided.

la tierra, no te será prohibido intentarlo. Siempre que tenga deseos y aspiraciones, el hombre puede equivocarse.

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do

Alles in der Welt läuft doch auf eine Lumperey hinaus, und ein Kerl, der um anderer willen, ohne daß es seine eigene Leidenschaft ist, sich um Geld, oder Ehre, oder sonst was, abarbeitet, ist immer ein Thor.

Succede per il cattivo umore come per la pigrizia; anzi esso è proprio una specie di pigrizia. Non vi siamo portati per natura, ma se abbiamo una volta la forza di liberarcene, il lavoro si svolge facilmente e troviamo un vero piacere nell'attività».

La acción es todo, la gloria nada es.

Between the idea and the experience there seems to be a certain gulf fixed; we exert all our strength to cross it, in vain. In spite of this, we strive constantly to overcome this gap by means of reason, understanding, imagination, faith, feeling, madness, and, if nothing else will serve, with absurdity.