Quotes About Effort

There's nothing as senseless as being harried at a simple do-what's-needed part-time job.

Preparavo l'apertura, facevo le pulizie, sopportavo la fatica fisica e combattevo la stanchezza. Minimizzavo i pensieri legati al futuro. Mi sforzavo di risolvere le piccole seccature, pensavo alle cose positive, cercavo di non aspettarmi improbabili periodi di grande lavoro, risolvevo i problemi in modo realistico...

realized how much effort moving would require—I'd have to pull myself together and go look at places. Move my stuff. Get a phone installed—I lay around instead, sleeping, in despair. It was then that a miracle, a godsend, came calling one afternoon. I remember it well.

It is a safer rule, however, for the speaker to try to conciliate the hostile element, and it has been a rule of mine for the last five years to endeavor to locate such centers of frigidity as may be found before me, and then direct all my energies toward " thawing them out."

Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.

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When you consider something like death, after which. . . we may well go out like a candle flame, then it probably doesn't matter if we try too hard, are awkward sometimes, care for one another too deeply, are excessively curious about nature, are too open to experience, enjoy a nonstop expense of the senses in an effort to know life intimately and lovingly. — DIANE ACKERMAN

Tame worship is easier to agree on than any other kind, and bringing fire requires a lot more energy than simply showing up. When life is pretty good and church is pleasant enough, who needs resurrection?

You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.

But the rest of what I was doing is Ã¢â'¬Â¦ is like spinning. I sit in a room of thirty people I don't know, and I pedal faster and faster to keep pace, but when I'm done, I haven't moved an inch.

won't be easy. We'll all have to work our butts off to repair the damage." Laura was suddenly desperate for breathing room. Along with his look and his tone, David's size had become intimidating. Breaking from his hold, she crossed the office to

People don't get what they deserve; they get what they work for.

If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good.

In other words, it requires deliberate self-deception, including a constant effort to repress or block out unpleasant possibilities and 'negative' thoughts. The truly self-confident, or those who have in some way made their peace with the world and their destiny within it, do not need to expend effort censoring or otherwise controlling their thoughts.

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work — that goes on, it adds up.

Virtue is an excellent thing and we should all strive after it, but it can sometimes be a little depressing.

Some people dream of SUCCESS while other wake up and work hard at it.

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

Remember: "Doing your own thing" is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means that you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource.

Working Hard Doesn't Mean Working All the Time.

Success rarely comes to the passive or pessimistic.

I worked for a menial's hire, Only to learn dismayed, That any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have willingly paid —JESSIE B. RITTENHOUSE

This was not necessarily a deliberate effort to be offensive; it was normal for General Staff officers to be offensive.

How much does a man's effort depend upon the age in which his work is cast? Pope Clement VII