Quotes About Effort

I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. Your own reality--for yourself not for others--what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.

In life's earnest battle they only prevail Who daily march onward and never say fail.

Economists have a name for these activities: they call them rent seeking, getting income not as a reward to creating wealth but by grabbing a larger share of the wealth that would otherwise have been produced without their effort. (We'll give a fuller definition of the concept of rent seeking

Individuals say they are working so hard for the family, but as they work so hard there is less and less time for the family, and family life deteriorates. Somehow, the means prove inconsistent with the stated end. T

Challenge is tough. It needs efforts, energy and time.

And just as a path that goes to a mountain does not cause the mountain, the path of practice leads us to this highest freedom, but does not cause it.

It is the truth that liberates, not your efforts to be free.

No one can practice for us. The Buddhas just point the way.

While none of the work we do is very important, it is important that we do a great deal of it.

He could not make them understand that...having a good time bored him and was not worth the effort.

Since he had nothing better to do well in, he did well in school.

Consciously, sir, consciously, Yossarian corrected in an effort to help. I hate them consciously.

Csak úgy tanulhat az ember, ha próbálja.

Vannak, akik középszer?nek születnek, vannak, akik elérik a középszer?séget, és vannak, akik nyögnek a középszer?ség lármájában.

While none of the work we do is very important, it is important that we do a great deal of it. Don't you agree?

Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.

kid I wanted apple cheeks someday, and I decided to work at it until I got them, and by God, I did work at it until I got them, and that's how I did it, with crab apples in my cheeks

Come le medaglie olimpiche e le coppe di tennis, significavano solo che il loro possessore aveva fatto più brillantemente di chiunque altro qualcosa che non serviva a nessuno.

Trying to accumulate wealth by the sweat of your brow and hard labor is one way to become the richest man in the graveyard.

The key point to remember is, take care of the process and the results will take care of themselves.

It's not whether you win or lose in life that's important but whether you play the game. Lose enough and eventually you will win. It's only a matter of time.

Though major depression is often associated with lethargy to the point of being frozen, many people with chronic depression not only work well but devote more energy to their vocation than to any other endeavor.

As Frederick Douglass said, "If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

The gardener is the quintessential optimist: not only does he believe that the future will bear out the fruits of his efforts, he believes in the future.