Quotes About Effort

I'm not asking you to do your best. I'm asking you to do your job. -Dagny Taggart

Money is made—before it can be looted or mooched—made by the effort of every honest man, each to the extent of his ability. An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.

There's no surer way to destroy a man than to force him into a spot where he has to aim at not doing his best, where he has to struggle to do a bad job, day after day.

Sure you can. It's not hard, if you just let go and try.

Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man.

He muscled words into deeds

Non sarà mai felice, - diceva - la felicità è come l'acqua. Non arriva in un momento, bisogna trovarla, preparare la pompa, fare un pozzetto, mettere le tubature e i rubinetti, Dopo che te la sei conuistata con fatica, allora la poi bere.

The whole struggle of life is to some extent a struggle about how slowly or how quickly to do each thing.

Smart is not something you are... Smart is something you get!

Testing was never going to be fashionable, but you could hardly run a respectable software development shop with no testing effort at all.

And they walked on until they crested the hill. Where they paused, panting.

There are no promises in life. All we can do is try hard, give everything our best shot and stay true to ourselves.

Life is a struggle, and it is the struggle that gives it meaning. The only thing to do was to give one's all, and leave the consequences to fate.7

I've been trying hard to not be a loser.

You can't spell parentry without try. Of course, you'll make a few mistakes. The important thing is that the mistakes you make with your kids are the same ones your parents made with you . At least you know how those turn out.

He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid.

The correspondent wondered ingenuously how in the name of all that was sane could there be people who thought it amusing to row a boat. It was not an amusement; it was a diabolical punishment, and even a genius of mental aberrations could never conclude that it was anything but a horror to the muscles and a crime against the back.

XXVI There was set before me a mighty hill, And long days I climbed Through regions of snow. When I had before me the summit-view, It seemed my labor Had been to see gardens Lying at impossible distances.

Whereupon she went to work, having the feminine aversion of going to hell.

Golden Boy with feet of clay Let me help you on your way A proper push will take you far - But what a clumsy lad you are!

Painters, poets and philosophers have seen many things in the myth of Sisyphus. They have seen an image of the absurdity of human life, the futility of effort, the remorseless cruelty of fate, the unconquerable power of gravity. But they have seen too something of mankind's courage, resilience, fortitude, endurance and self-belief. They see something heroic in our refusal to submit.

Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life-shaped, spurn the easy symmetry and cheap resonance of reality.

No labour was more Heraclean than the labour of being Heracles.

I can play … I mean, as an effort of will I can sit down and learn a piece at the piano and reproduce it, so that those who hear will not necessarily move away with their hands clutched to their mouths, vomit leaking through fingers, blood dripping from ears.