Quotes About Effort

Inútil, porém, foi o enorme tremendo esforço do espírito do bem. A ele se opunha a força inelutável do destino, cujas leis imutáveis haviam decretado minha destruição horrível e total.

So that's it? Your just going to give up?! After everything that has happened, your not going to even try?! You still don't know..... what truly matters....

Someone with inborn talent isn't happy. It's those who have worked hard for someone precious to them and who can be hot-blooded that are happy. -Gai Sensei: Naruto Episode 196

I was raised on ramen and hard work!

Peace is actually a troublesome beast. (...) It is hard to produce, but maintaining it is hard to impossible.

Avec de l'entrainement même un raté peut devenir un génie

I tried good taste, but the strain was too much for me.

One cannot improve as an endurance athlete except by changing one's relationship with perception of effort.

Tolerance for suffering is also trainable. Once a runner has discovered that she can suffer more than she thought she could, her perception of effort changes in a lasting way.

the more you do it, the faster and better you will get.

Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!

a smaller quantity of labour produce a greater quantity of work'.

In history and in evolution, progress is always a futile, Sisyphean struggle to stay in the same relative place by getting ever better at things.

When I ply the cutlass and make the equivalent of sixpence, idiot conscience applauds me. But if I sit in the house and make twenty pounds by writing, idiot conscience wails over my neglect and the day wasted. No, to come down covered with mud and drenched with sweat and rain after some hours in the bush. To change, rub down, and take a chair in the verandah, that makes for a quiet conscience.

Another form of laziness is thinking: 'That's not for me; it's beyond my abilities. I'd rather not get involved with it.' In other words, you give up the race before you reach the starting line.

Happiness does not come automatically. It is not a gift that good fortune bestows upon us and a reversal of fortune takes back. It depends on us alone. One does not become happy overnight, but with patient labor, day after day. Happiness is constructed, and that requires effort and time. In order to become happy, we have to learn how to change ourselves. LUCA AND FRANCESCO CAVALLI-SFORZA

You have to try. Trying is the first step to whatever comes next.

Is that going to work? she said. We have to try. She nodded. She got that. You have to try. Trying is the first step to whatever comes next.

If he hadn't dragged me, I would never have made it up the hill.

To trade by means of money is the code of the men of good will. Money rests on the axiom that every man is the owner of his mind and his effort.

Or did you say it's the love of money that's the root of all evil? To love a thing is to know and love its nature. To love money is to know and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men.

The faces stood out, separate, lonely, no two alike. Behind each, there were the years of a life lived or half over, effort, hope and an attempt, honest or dishonest, but an attempt. It had left on all a single mark in common: on lips smiling with malice, on lips loose with renunciation, on lips tight with uncertain dignity—on all—the mark of suffering.

When nothing seems worth the effort—said some stern voice in her mind—it's a screen to hide a wish that's worth too much; what do you want?

It was a race he was running now, a race between his rent money and... he did not know the name of the other contestant. Perhaps it was every man whom he passed on the street.