Quotes About Effort

Wynand's face was more than the face of a stranger: a stranger's face is an unapproached potentiality, to be opened if one makes the choice and effort; this was a face known, closed and never to be reached again.

What I described last," said Francisco, "is any man who proclaims his right to a single penny of another man's effort.

When you accept money in payment for your effort, you do so only on the conviction that you will exchange it for the product of the effort of others.

The prospect of experiencing pleasure was not worth the effort; he had no desire to experience pleasure.

She thought suddenly that she was wrong about his lack of emotion: the hidden undertone of his manner was enjoyment. She realized that she had always felt a sense of light-hearted relaxation in his presence and known that he shared it. He was the only man she knew to whom she could speak without strain or effort. This, she thought, was a mind she respected, an adversary worth matching.

He asked simply, as if the matter of her presence were not unusual at all: "Did you have a hard time climbing those stairs?" She answered, "A little. All climbing is hard. But it's usually worth it.

there's no such thing as a lousy job—only lousy men who don't care to do it.

Si viese usted a Atlas, el gigante que sostiene al mundo sobre sus hombros, si usted viese que él estuviese de pie, con la sangre latiendo en su pecho, con sus rodillas doblándose, con sus brazos temblando, pero todavía intentando mantener al mundo en lo alto con sus últimas fuerzas, y cuanto mayor sea su esfuerzo, mayor es el peso que el mundo carga sobre sus hombros, ¿qué le diría usted que hiciese? [...] Que se rebele.

para qué trabajar? Sabías que tu mísera manutención básica te la darían en cualquier caso, trabajases o no..., tu "asignación para casa y comida", la llamaban..., y por encima de esa miseria podías olvidarte de conseguir algo, no importa cuánto lo intentases.

In the normal conditions of existence, man has to choose his goals, project them in time, pursue them and achieve them by his own effort. He cannot do it if his goals are at the mercy of and must be sacrificed to any misfortune happening to others. He cannot live his life by the guidance of rules applicable only to conditions under which human survival is impossible.

Ya sea una sinfonía o una mina de carbón, todo trabajo es un acto creador

Así como no mantengo mi vida mediante el robo o la limosna, sino mediante mi propio esfuerzo, tampoco busco obtener mi felicidad por el daño o el favor de otros, sino por mis propios logros.

I made my money by my own effort, in free exchange and through the voluntary consent of every man I dealt with—the voluntary consent of those who employed me when I started, the voluntary consent of those who work for me now, the voluntary consent of those who buy my product.

In any hour and issue of your life, you are free to think or to evade that effort.

Greatness is achieved by the productive effort of a man's mind in the pursuit of clearly defined, rational goals. But a delusion of grandeur can be served only by the switching, undefinable chimera of a public monument—which is presented as a munificent gift to the victims whose forced labor or extorted money had paid for it—which is dedicated to the service of all and none, owned by all and none, gaped at by all and enjoyed by none.

They've done their best to make it harder for you, haven't they?" he said.

El trabajo productivo es el propósito fundamental de la vida de un hombre racional, el valor central que integra y determina la jerarquía de todos sus valores. La razón es la fuente, la precondición de su trabajo productivo. El orgullo es el resultado.

The man who produces while others dispose of his product, is a slave.

Since nature does not provide man with an automatic form of survival, since he has to support his life by his own effort, the doctrine that concern with one's own interests is evil means that man's desire to live is evil—that man's life, as such, is evil. No doctrine could be more evil than that.

la única manera de tener algo de ley es teniendo la menor cantidad posible. No encuentro ningún principio ético con el cual medir la concepción absolutamente inmoral de un Estado, salvo en la cantidad de tiempo, pensamiento, dinero, esfuerzo y obediencia que la sociedad arranca a cada uno de sus miembros.

Since everything man needs has to be discovered by his own mind and produced by his own effort, the two essentials of the method of survival proper to a rational being are: thinking and productive work.

I think that it's a sin to sit down and let your life go, without making a try for it.

and the degree of a man's productiveness is the degree of his reward. This

The facts in this story are true insofar as any memory is ever truthful, but I have made every effort to protect friends and students, baptizing them with new names and disguising them perhaps even from themselves, changing and interchanging facets of their lives so that their secrets are safe.