Quotes About Effort

Success is always more likely when you are swimming with the current rather than against it.

Que l'écolier, de temps à autre, rencontre un professeur dont l'enthousiasme semble considérer les mathématiques en elles-mêmes, qui les enseigne comme un des Beaux-Arts, qui les fait aimer par la vertu de sa propre vitalité, grâce à qui l'effort devienne un plaisir, cela tient au hasard de la rencontre, pas au génie de l'Institution. (p.89)

Ça vous plaît ? – C'est comme tout. Beaucoup trop payé pour ce que je fais, mais pas assez pour ce que je m'emmerde.

Real challenges are far more invigorating than controlled leisure.

Taoists, on the other hand, speak not of a supreme being but of a supreme state of being – a sublime state that lies deeply locked within every human being and can be reached only through the greatest personal effort and self-discipline.

Any fool can slide down the mountain, but it takes someone of character and discipline walk up one. - Luigi Donati

En la vida no se obtiene lo que se merece, sino lo que se sabe negociar, o lo que el destino depara.

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

Grunt work is my main calling, but I like to be dead when I do it.

Our managers always did their very best!

Blame is a lazy man's wages.

He who would leap high must take a long run.

Un disegno dieci minuti di pan tostato è un zilione di volte meglio di un disegno a zero minuto di pan tostato.

Sé lo que estás pensando: ¿Pero qué debo hacer si ella ni siquiera es mía? Aun así, no bajes los brazos, tú puedes enamorarla, solo tienes que trabajar más duro. Ella se va a dar cuenta de que se topó con alguien que la valora más que, incluso, aquella persona que a lo mejor está a su lado. El llegar último a su corazón no significa que eres el menos importante en su vida, significa que los anteriores no han sido tan especiales como para quedarse.

Es la declaración de los condenados al éxito: «Mas en tu palabra, echaré la red».

Sports are not for everyone.

Anyone can easy talk , but change need actions, effort and discipline. Dont be easy, do something.

People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat--that's the only moral they know.

She is beginning to understand that completion is not so much about reaching perfection as it is making the choice to look away from the material. What was it Khalil used to say when she couldn't finish a paper in college? Be a completionist, not a perfectionist.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. —ALBERT CAMUS

It's so evident to me now that just because someone is a great guy doesn't guarantee we'll make a great couple, no matter how much I work at it and want it.

The harder I push, the further I fall.

No one ever excused his way to success.

Probably that story would turn out to be fairly typical of the whole garrison, but asking questions was the only way to learn. So Father had always said: nobles could learn even from commoners if they cared to make the effort.