Quotes About Effort

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Effortless doesn't mean no effort; effortless means just enough effort to be vivid, to be present, to be here, to be now. To be bright. My teacher used to call this "effortless effort." We each need to find out for ourselves what this means. Too much effort and we get too tight; too little effort and we get dreamy. Somewhere in the middle is a state of vividness and clarity and inner brightness.

If we are being sincere and honest with ourselves, there is an intuitive sense of what we are avoiding. If we can find the capacity to be honest, we'll start to feel in ourselves when we're being called to make effort.

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

To him that toileth God oweth glory, child of his toil.

God ever works with those that work with will.

Not for laggards doth a contest wait.

God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.

God always strives together with those who strive.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

Better a long life of toil than a short one of ease.

None but those who work are entitled to eat.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

Labour is the source of every blessing.

You may share the labours of the great, but you may not share the spoil.

To try and to fail, is not laziness

It is not with saying, Honey, Honey, that sweetness will come into the mouth.

Mary seemed to have taken a perverse pleasure in seeing how best she could alternate undercooking and overcooking.

Got on! Got on! It's not a question of getting on. That's the wrong view altogether. The Classics aren't a ladder leading to quick success.

Edna restored the toffee to the centre of her tongue and sucking pleasurably, resumed her typing of Naked Love by Armand Levine. Its painstaking eroticism left her uninterested--as indeed it did most of Mr. Levine's readers, in spite of his efforts. He was a notable example of the fact that nothing can be duller than dull pornography.

But it is not always the people who say most who do most.

It will prove, I fear, too Herculean a task for us.