Quotes About Effort

Il arrive qu'on fasse des pieds et des mains pour atteindre un objectif, mais il vous échappe parce que les lois cosmiques suivent une autre voie.

Mnich do Mariny: - Wszystko b?dzie si? toczy?, bo i tak si? toczy. Przypomnij sobie histori? Buddy - otrzyma? o?wiecenie, ale dopiero wtedy, kiedy ca?kowicie si? podda?. Czasami robisz, co tylko mo?esz, ?eby osi?gn?? cel, ale nic z tego nie wychodzi, bo kosmos ma wobec ciebie inne plany.

With a great effort the Don opened his eyes to see his son once more. He smelled the garden, the yellow shield of light smote his eyes, and he whispered, Life is so beautiful.

Raw brilliance needs long years of hard work to develop properly.

Light literature, along with light cinema and light art, give the reader and the viewer the comfortable impression that they are cultured, revolutionary, modern and in the vanguard without having to make the slightest intellectual effort. Culture that purports to be avant-garde and iconoclastic instead offers conformity in its worst forms: smugness and self-satisfaction.

Living is worth the effort if only because without life we could not read or imagine stories.

Ik heb al het mogelijke gedaan om haar te vergeten, maar eerlijk gezegd is dat nutteloos.

Por esa razón es tan importante, para el liberalismo, ofrecer a todos los jóvenes un sistema educativo de alto nivel que asegure en cada generación un punto de partida común, que permita luego las legítimas diferencias de ingreso de acuerdo al talento, al esfuerzo y al servicio que cada ciudadano presta a la comunidad.

Dos que trabajan juntos no deben encamarse, el amor y el trabajo son incompatibles, encamarse rima con pelearse. Así

The trying to change what they think, the attempt to explain, the hope they'll come to see your side of things, it was exhausting because it never made a dent and afterward you only ached unbearably.

if my dad put half the energy he did into cutting corners into just driving around the corner, he'd be a billionaire.

To me the way they were used, particularly the way their idealism and loyalty were exploited by leaders who themselves had lost faith in the effort, is a stunning betrayal. It is a lasting American tragedy and disgrace.

He was convinced that men lost their nerve in combat when they allowed themselves to think too much. The part movies never got right about war was all the waiting, and all the effort it took not to think.

Spiritual discipline: any activity I do by direct effort that will help me do what I cannot now do by direct effort.

We honestly think that we ourselves and those around us should be proficient with spiritual power, moving and acting with agility and endurance, wisdom and purity, able to conquer long-established habits of sloth and rebelliousness, simply on the basis of our desire and effort and sincerity...We have to train for the spiritual life.

But grace and effort are not opposites. Grace and earning are opposites.

I knew it was easier to drill things in than to take them out.' 'It's like a screw!' Craig-Vyvyan shouted.... 'If you pull off it's head, you never get it out.

Resurrection, he thought, comes not by plan or effort, and should the past ever come alive, it will be a great surprise, in which images and ritual memory will pale.

I think it would be vain to imagine that we could be favored without effort. As I understand it, miracles come to those who risk defeat in seeking them. They come to those who have exhausted themselves completely in a struggle to accomplish the impossible.

If we could see ourselves from far enough away, we would seem like a colony of insects running into things repeatedly: thousands of little determined beings butting into obstacles, shaking our little heads and bodies, and running into things again.

Once I quit fighting with him and began rewarding his efforts to respond to my cues, he became extremely willing to do what I was asking. The fight and confusion just seemed to melt away

One of the biggest problems I see when working with folks and their horses is that the vast majority of people have been trained to always look for the bad things their horses do. Because they're always looking for the bad, they easily overlook the little tries and sometimes have trouble seeing the good in their horse, even when the good jumps up and bites them in the butt.

People doing good work feel good & people doing exceptional work feel, exceptional. Accomplishments contributes greatly to satisfaction.

Big oaks grow from small acorns, and activity is a precursor to accomplishment. You don't think yourself into success.