Quotes About Effort

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going," he'd emphasized, quoting one of his favorite Beverly Sills lines.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

No one attains perfection by merely giving up work.

Karma-yoga is a supreme secret indeed.

No matter how hard you pursue pleasure and success, there are times when you fail. No matter how fast you flee, there are times when pain catches up with you.

The effort of the genuine spiritual seeker should be to cultivate love until the mind becomes saturated by it.

Cowards shrink from toil and peril, Vulgar souls attempt and fail; Men of mettle, nothing daunted, Persevere till they prevail.

The greatest improvement is made by the man who works most intelligently.

When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win.

You don't learn knife skills at cooking school, because they give you only six onions and no matter how hard you focus on those six onions there are only six, and you're not going to learn as much as when you cut up a hundred.

Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.

The man who rows the boat seldom has time to rock it.

There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.

The only way to bring the future closer is to make the BEST of the NOW.

They lie about marijuana. Tell you pot-smoking makes you unmotivated. Lie! When you're high, you can do everything you normally do just as well — you just realize that it's not worth the fucking effort. There is a difference.

Discipleship-the effort both to be a disciple and to make other disciples-is about the immense value of God at work in one individual's life and the resulting impact on other lives.

In Paul's day, instead of giving gold medals for winning first place in an Olympic event, a crown of olive or laurel leaves was placed on the winner's head. By the time the athlete went home that night, the wreath would already be wilting and falling apart. Think of that. All that energy expended for a wreath that didn't last beyond a day.

If you can't learn to do something well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.

Future strong strives for simplicity for all: Least amount of individual effort, energy and time to create maximum impact by each person.

Remember, it's the pace that kills, never the distance.

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything

more than a decade of human labor per barrel.

Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you're donating blood.

Some people have a hard time walking and chewing gum at the same time. Not me I cant ever get the gum out of the wrapper!