Quotes About Effort

Life isn't supposed to be easy. Generally speaking, the harder something is the more rewarding the results will be.

The best paths in life are rarely the easiest.

You've got to realize that the world's a test, You can only do your best and let Him do the rest. You've got your life, and got your health, So quit procrastinating and push it yourself.

Life is nearly over with me. I have taken no pains about my style of writing.

My life has been given its orders: the seasons seize the soul and the body, and make mock of any dispersed effort. The hour of death is the only trespass

I go out of my way to try not to be too annoying... my biggest goal in life is to not be annoying about being a bride.

If life was a piece of cake, it wouldn't be worth eating!

For example, given that we depend on other people for our well-being and they depend on us, we have certain obligations towards each other; given that we have certain potentials the realization of which is good for us, potentials which require a certain amount of effort to realize, we have a duty to make that effort; and so forth.

To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor.

Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline.

You who alone know the secrets of hearts, look with love upon my feeble attempts at silent prayer. I am grateful that you do not measure my effort but look only upon my love for you.

Life without work is unworthy of being lived.

I keep scraping the canvas And painting him over again But he keeps slipping away

Propaganda is a purposeful, directed effort to overcome censorship—the censorship of the group mind and the herd reaction.

With chisels and pickaxes we made our tiny contributions to this orgy of historic vandalism.

While trying harder helps just about everything, telling someone with ADD to try harder is no more helpful than telling someone who is nearsighted to squint harder. It missed the biological point.

Mastery means making progress at a task that matters to you and is challenging.

For example, if you were nearsighted and had never heard of nearsightedness, and for years you had thought your blurry vision and subsequent learning problems were due to lack of effort or moral turpitude, imagine your relief in discovering that there was this condition called nearsightedness, and it had nothing to do with effort or morality, but rather was a neurological condition. So it is with ADD.

To tell a person who has ADD to try harder is about as helpful as telling someone who is nearsighted to squint harder.

To get an idea of what your time is worth, take a moment now to think about how much you work and the income you get from your effort. Once you know your hourly rate you can identify situations where buying back some of your time is a bargain and other situations where you want to be selling more of your time. As you get used to thinking this way, I predict that you will often be surprised at how much you can gain.

Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.

If you make the effort, and you want to win, you can be very successful. Because that's ninety percent of the game. Just those two things: effort and wanting to win.

It can't be easy, living in the park." "Maybe it was a greater effort being who he was.

It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.