Quotes About Effort

Inch by inch, life's a cinch. Yard by yard, life's hard.

inch by inch will make it cinch ,yard by yard will make it hard.

The great game of life is not about money; it is about doing your best to join the battle to build anew ourselves, our communities, our nation, and our world.

The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying

They are not one whit disaccommodated by the fact the sun they follow with such effort is a false one.

It is not futile to do what we do. We wake up with energy and we do something. And we make, of course, failures and we make mistakes, but we sometimes get glimpses of what we might do next.

If grace acts in us, grace, and not we who do the work, will be crowned

Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.

They were all down there trying to wire the shackle. Each one of them alone, clinging to the stem of a mushroom anchor with one breath inside. One breath. It didn't matter if you got the shackle wired or not. There was no up. When your breath was done, no up." John Casey, Spartina

I nipped into this sanctuary late this afternoon and soon heard the dying footfalls of closing time. From now on, my only effort will be to dodge the night watchman. Poets can dodge.

what human beings did: they tried and failed and failed again, and they kept failing until either they got it right at last or time ran out and they had to settle for what they had.

Whether his prayers were in vain or not, he didn't care. It was the effort that counted. But he knew that, somewhere, those prayers were being heard.

There is no genius. There is only the work. There is no art. There is only the craft.

In divine union, work and play should rise to meet together as one. This is your calling. "To me, work that does not rise to the level of play is flawed work and play that is simply an escape from the expenditure of effort is flawed play," says Capon. "Play is the sovereign category, not work. If we have any final vocation, any ultimate calling, it is into that play.

But if the striving toil of self-effort is involved, it ceases to be faith.

A complacent satisfaction in God may cause you to accidentally outwork all your religious friends.

Don't waste effort on a thing that ends in a petty triumph unless you are happy with a life of petty success

If I have succeeded better than many who surround me, it has been chiefly - may I say almost solely - from universal assiduity.

To get away from self is really the secret of all striving. And yet, most of us fail woefully. The more many of us try the more tightly we seem to be bound.

Ninety percent of paid work is time-wasting crap. The world gets by on the other ten.

The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.

The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.

To train in the martial arts is like being apprenticed to frustration, to the burn of effort, and the unattainable criteria of perfection. There's no glamour, no reward beyond the ones you create in your own heart. You struggle along the path and your teacher goads you or challenges you, always three steps ahead and always waiting, his eyes betraying nothing but demanding everything. And you try to give it.

And all to leave what with his toil he wonTo that unfeather'd two-legg'd thing, a son.