Quotes About Effort

The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do

We have to water, cultivate, and weed on a regular basis if we're going to enjoy the harvest. The difference between our own active involvement as gardeners and neglect is the difference between a beautiful garden and a weed patch

Did you ever consider how ridiculous it would be to try to cram on a farm—to forget to plant in the spring, play all summer and then cram in the fall to bring in the harvest? The farm is a natural system. The price must be paid and the process followed. You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut. This principle is also true, ultimately, in human behavior, in human relationships.

The price must be paid and the process followed.

Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own effort. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success. If I were physically dependent—paralyzed or disabled or limited

There is no real excellence

cuando examinamos este don en el contexto de la autoadministración efectiva, comprendemos que por lo general no es el esfuerzo dramático, visible, que se realiza hasta el límite de nuestras fuerzas una vez en la vida, el que procura un éxito duradero. El poder se adquiere aprendiendo a usar ese gran don en las decisiones que tomamos día tras día.

Uno hace el esfuerzo y el proceso sigue. Siempre se cosecha lo que se siembra; no hay ningún atajo.

The price must be paid and the process followed. You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut.

Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it. It's inside-out.

I've taken course after course on effective management training. I expect a lot out of my employees and I work hard to be friendly toward them and to treat them right.

25 years of working

The landscape ahead is covered with the fragments of broken relationships of people who have tried. They've tried to jump into effective relationships without the maturity, the strength of character, to maintain them.

You might work on your behavior—you could try harder, be more diligent, double your speed. But your efforts would only succeed in getting you to the wrong place faster.

Remember that quick fix is a mirage. Building and repairing relationships takes time.

In the words of Thoreau, "For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root.

we sow, we must inevitably reap.

Lift off" takes a tremendous effort, but once we break out of the gravity pull, our freedom takes on a whole new dimension.

in reaping for so long where we have not sown, perhaps we have forgotten the need to sow.

He wanted his people to work together, to share ideas, to all benefit from the effort. But he was setting them up in competition with each other.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.

The answers are obvious. It is simply impossible to violate, ignore, or shortcut this development process. It is contrary to nature, and attempting to seek such a shortcut only results in disappointment and frustration. On a ten-point scale, if I am at level two in any field, and desire to move to level five, I must first take the step toward level three. "A thousand-mile journey begins with the first step" and can only be taken one step at a time.

Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own effort. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success. If