Quotes About Effort

A man is fed, not that he may be fed, but that he may work.

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

The energy of the mind is commensurate with the work to be done.

Do the thing and you will have the power.

Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Aquilo que insistimos em fazer torna-se fácil - não que a natureza da tarefa tenha modificado, mas nossa habilidade para realizá-la aumentou.

The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

Do what we can, summer will have its flies.

Finish everyday and be done with it. You have done what you could.

Do not cumber yourself with fruitless pains to mend and remedy remote effects; let the soul be erect, and all things will go well.

So let us then be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing; learn to labor and to wait.

A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must be strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.

Well, I could take on the Sisyphean task of trying to match these folks in every new game as it comes out, but frankly, repeated failure is a predictable cycle, and rather boring. I have better things to do with my time.

Finally, if you attempt to read this without working through a significant number of exercises (see §0.0.1), I will come to your house and pummel you with [Gr-EGA] until you beg for mercy. It is important to not just have a vague sense of what is true, but to be able to actually get your hands dirty. As Mark Kisin has said, "You can wave your hands all you want, but it still won't make you fly.

The world is in great need. There is so much that needs to be done.

La fel ca orice mare bog??ie, câÈ™tigul ei (al dragostei) este direct proporÈ›ional cu investiÈ›ia f?cut?.

That's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and WORTH the doing.

Last night I thought about all the kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper. And I'd never even thought that thought before...It took some man a lifetime maybe to put some of his thoughts down, looking around at the world and life, and then I come along in two minutes and boom! it's all over.

Work. Don't Think. Relax.

For being good is a fearful occupation; men strain at it & sometimes break in two. I've known a few. You work twice as hard to be a farmer as to be his hog.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

But that's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and worth the doing.

In quickness is truth. The more swiftly you write, the more honest you are. In hesitation is thought. In delay comes the effort for a style, instead of leaping upon truth which is the only style worth deadfalling or tiger-trapping.

Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much?