Quotes About Effort

There is only a single, urgent task: to attach oneself someplace to nature, to that which is strong, striving and bright with unreserved readiness, and then to move forward in one's efforts without any calculation or guile, even when engaged in the most trivial and mundane activities. (Letters on Life)

And if I have anything else to say to you it is this: do not think that the person who is trying to console you lives effortlessly among the simple, quiet words that sometimes make you feel better. His life is full of troubles and sadness and falls far short of them. But if it were any different he could never have found the words that he did. Yours, Rainer Maria Rilke

do not believe that he who is seeking to comfort you lives effortlessly among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much trouble and sadness and remains far behind you. But were it otherwise, he could never have found those words.

Sex is difficult, true. But difficult things are what we were set to do, almost everything serious is difficult, and everything is serious.

Hayatta yeni baÅŸlayanlar için s?n?flar yok, insandan derhal en zor ÅŸeyi isterler daima.

Do not think that the person who is trying to console you lives effortlessly among the simple, quiet words that sometimes make you feel better. His life is full of troubles and sadness and falls far short of them. But if it were any different he could never have found the words that he did.

Con frecuencia es el nombre de un crimen lo que hace naufragar una vida, y no la acción individual y sin nombre, que quizá no era más que una determinada necesidad de esa vida, la cual podía aceptar aquella acción con inocencia y sin esfuerzo.

que una cosa sigui difícil ha de ser per a nosaltres un motiu més per fer-la. estimar també és bo: perquè l'amor és difícil. Estimar de persona a persona: això és potser el més difícil que se'ns ha encomanat, el més extrem, l'última prova, el treball per al qual tot altre treball és només una preparació.

I basically do not believe that it matters to be happy in the sense in which people expect to be happy. But I can so absolutely understand the kind of arduous happiness that consists in rousing forces through a determined effort, forces that then start to work upon one's self.

But difficult things are what we were set to do, almost everything serious is difficult, and everything is serious.

Can I say in twenty minutes what was building twenty-one years and ended in twenty seconds?

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

The world belongs to the energetic.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but our power to do so is increased.

Do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.

As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.

though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

There is no limit to what can be accomplished if it doesn't matter who gets the credit.

The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.

The law of nature is: Do the thing, and you shall have the power, but they who do not the thing have not the power.

Life is too short to waste The critic bite or cynic bark, Quarrel, or reprimand; 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!

The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when all your arrows are spent.

That which we persist on doing becomes easier, not that the nature of the task has changed , but our ability to do has increased.

Skill to do comes of doing.