Quotes About Effort

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful ' and sitting in the shade.

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful!' and sitting in the shade.

I have never understood why "hard work" is supposed to be pitiable. True, some work is soul destroying when it is done against the grain, but when it is part of "making" how can you grudge it? You get tired, of course, but the struggle, the challenge, the feeling of being extended as you never thought you could be is fulfilling and deeply, deeply satisfying.

Is it easier to be than to do?

Work in the invisible world at least as hard as you do in the visible.

I get up at seven yeah and I go to work at nine. I got no time for livin'. Yes I'm workin' all the time. It seems to me I could live my life a lot better than I think I am. I guess that's why they call me they call me the workin' man.

the best ones are often the most difficult to find. But

People often ask me why my style is so simple. It is, in fact, deceptively simple, for no two sentences are alike. It is clarity that I am striving to attain, not simplicity. Of course, some people want literature to be difficult and there are writers who like to make their readers toil and sweat. They hope to be taken more seriously that way. I have always tried to achieve a prose that is easy and conversational. And those who think this is simple should try it for themselves.

If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.

I don't like doing anything that makes you sweat if you don't come at the end of it.

The key ingredient to any kind of happiness or success is to never give less than your best

when you embrace the process of your work, instead of focusing on the results, you'll always be happier, plus do a much better job.

I find myself drawn to literature more now than in the past; not the individual works as much as the idea of literature—the heroic effort and nobility of our human desire to make beauty of our minds—which moves me to tears, and I have to brush them away, quickly, before anyone notices.

Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself indeed, it seems to execute itself.

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition there. —You (also, Indira Gandhi)

Sucking at something is the first step towards being sorta good at something.

Maybe the best things are those that take the most work, you know? Maybe how you get somewhere can be at least as important as where you're going.

Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine. —You (also, Nikola Tesla)

About Life: There's no such thing as a fair and easy life, tragic but true. All you can do is be a good person, do the right thing, try your hardest, never give up, hope for the best but be prepared for the worst.

Concentrate on the reward, not the labor, and the achievement, the accomplishment, will become a little easier to obtain.

Our job is like a baker's work -- his rolls are tasty as long as they're fresh; after two days they're stale; after a week, they're covered with mould and fit only to be thrown out.

Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.

I am doing the best I can. I am hoping I am good enough. I am holding you close, as close as I can, hand cradling your head and breath on your hair, my whole body curved around yours, sheltering you as best I can, trying to remember that I cannot keep you safe, but I can keep you loved.

You can't hit if you don't swing!