Quotes About Effort

Because life doesn't work that way. You can do everything perfectly. Do everything you think you're supposed to be doing. Fulfill every expectation that other people may have. And you still won't get the results you think you deserve. Life is crazy and maddening and often makes no sense.

In the end it all comes down to this: you have a choice (or more accurately a rolling tangle of choices) between giving your work your best shot and risking that it will not make you happy, or not giving it your best shot — and thereby guaranteeing that it will not make you happy. It becomes a choice between certainty and uncertainty. And curiously, uncertainty is the comforting choice.

To try to capture "all the words of a language" is as futile as trying to capture all the drops of water in a flowing river.

He lived the life he lived, like anybody, I guess, and he paid his dues, like everybody. Maybe what I mean when I say he made his life so hard was that he always tried to pay his dues in front.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fames proud temple shines afar?

I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems.

To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline and training is all about.

Always remember, child... that to think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral you down into ever increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one onf the things that discipline - training - is about.

You Can't Produce what you don't sow

Your best chance of success is when it hurts. - James D. Wilson

Posers will always fake it and never make it

Your best chance of success is when it hurts

Anything worth building out and profiting long term as generational wealth cannot be completed without a lot of hard work and sacrifices

Beginners luck or what not in your beginning does not equal long term success only short term

No one said baking your first cake will be a cake walk, your best chance of success is when it hurts

You Can't receive what you don't sow

You have to find your discipline to bake your first cake

She and Thomas had helped construct the Maze; at the same time she'd exerted a lot of effort to build a wall holding back her emotions.

for now, almost was good enough

Aim high, hit low.

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And so, we have failed. But we have also succeeded.

get lazy, you get sad. Start givin' up. Plain and simple.