Quotes About Effort

Man ought not, like a mushroom, to spring up And rot upon the ground that nourished him, Leaving no trace of life-like energy!

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do.

Il mondo mi risulta esecrabile e pauroso se solo devo dare spettacolo del mio ozio. Ma se mi si trova lieta al lavoro, instancabile nell'eseguire il mio dovere, allora posso sostenere gli sguardi di chiunque perché non ho bisogno di temere quelli divini.

Who ever exerts himself in constant striving, Him we can redeem.

Le difficoltà crescono quanto più ci si avvicina alla meta. Seminare non è faticoso quanto raccogliere.

Succede per il cattivo umore come per la pigrizia. Noi 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».

Success is something that comes to you after you pull off many seemingly impossible tasks.

The most effective self-control is not through willpower and exerting effort to stifle impulses and unwanted behaviors. It comes from effectively harnessing the unconscious powers of the mind to much more easily do the self-control for you.

By using unconscious means to self-regulate, making "necessary evils" such as healthy eating and exercising and studying a routine part of their lives, they make the positive activities a routine habit so that they don't need to fight to get started, or overcome the disinclination to do them. Conscious and effortful self-control is too taxing and too unreliable, and as we know, vulnerable to rationalizations and excuses.

All of us resist growth to some extent. It's built in; I'm convinced of it. To paraphrase Tom Hanks's character in the movie A League of Their Own, if growth were easy, everybody would be doing it. But that's what makes it great.

Day by day, you'll be making your best effort at creating better health. And day by day, you'll find yourself looking better, weighing less, and feeling more energy and confidence. It doesn't happen without effort. But that's what makes it great. You earn the right to be healthier, happier, more vital, beautiful, and alive. Enjoy it. You deserve to look and feel great.

Water boils at 212 degrees. At 211 degrees it's just hot. Every degree is needed.

Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it

I was told that if you work hard, bust your butt, go to school, and get great grades, you'd do well in life. That's a bunch of crap. Today we have better information about how the universe operates and how we operate.

We did our best, Anna and I. We forgave each other for all we were not.

Maybe there were no villains in my mother's story at all. Just men and women, trying to do their best by each other. And failing.

people readily accept credit when told they have succeeded, attributing it to their ability and effort. Yet they attribute failure to such external factors as bad luck or the problem's "impossibility." When we win at Scrabble, it's because of our verbal dexterity. When we lose, it's because "I was stuck with a Q but no U.

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I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice — no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice.

You can get discouraged many times, but you are not a failure until you begin to blame somebody else and stop trying.

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.