Quotes About Effort

Now to exert oneself and work for the sake of amusement seems silly and utterly childish. But to amuse oneself in order that one may exert oneself, as Anacharsis puts it, seems right; for amusement is a sort of relaxation, and we need relaxation because we cannot work continuously. Relaxation, then, is not an end; for it is taken for the sake of activity.

If it is better to be happy as a result of one's own exertions than by the gift of fortune, it is reasonable to suppose that this is how happiness is won.

Excellence, much labored for by the race of mortals.

Algunos creen q para ser amigos basta con querer, como si para estar sanos bastara con desear buena salud

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

It's a funny thing about love. You can't make it right when it's wrong and you can't make it wrong when it's right, no matter how hard you try.

The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily budget of twenty-four hours is the calm realisation of the extreme difficulty of the task, of the sacrifices and the endless effort which it demands. I cannot too strongly insist on this.

If you are not prepared for discouragements and disillusions; if you will not be content with a small result for a big effort, then do not begin. Lie down again and resume the uneasy doze which you call your existence.

His was the kind of perseverance that, for the fun of it, will perish in an attempt.

If you want to turn a vision into reality, you have to give 100% and never stop believing in your dream.

like everything that was worth doing, that would take time and practice.

Then I remembered that these men didn't seem any cleverer than I was; they were highly trained, that was all. If one worked hard enough, one could master anything.

Milletin tembel süngerlere dönüÅŸmesine ÅŸaÅŸmamal?; her daim emiyorlar, ama asla üretmiyorlar.

It was a nuisance having to learn Morse—in this age, it seemed such an anachronism, and many were the bitter protests among pilots and space-engineers at the waste of effort. In your whole lifetime, you might need it only once. But that was the point. You would really need it then.

Arthur Conan Doyle

To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.

My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence.

The work is its own reward

L'homme c'est rien—l'oeuvre c'est tout

Why on earth people who have something to say which is worth hearing should not take the slight trouble to learn how to make it heard is one of the strange mysteries of modern life.

They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains, he remarked with a smile.

genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains

that for strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

From the instant that we passed the rise, we could no longer see the vehicle, but we hastened onward at such a pace that my sedentary life began to tell upon me, and I was compelled to fall behind. Holmes, however, was always in training, for he had inexhaustible stores of nervous energy upon which to draw.