Quotes About Effort

This is sounding like too much work.

Try as we may, we can't change ourselves in any significant way.

Maintaining our shit takes a lot of work. To awaken is to release this effort and face your shit.

work on it." "What do you think of it?

These are the days that require discipline, when exercise is pure duty and the good feeling only comes later, consisting solely of self-congratulations for having done the job at all.

The downside of fitness, which takes years to achieve, is how quickly it vanishes—almost instantly.

Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see a lot of people doing it.

I like lines, I earn mine.

There's only so much room at the top of the heap. The rest of us are fill dirt.

Mi niña tendrá dificultades en la vida, pero es lo que ocurre con los dones. Si nos los entregaran fácilmente, no nos esforzaríamos por encontrar la mejor manera de servirnos de ellos.

Anger is effortless. Kindness is hard. Try to exert yourself.

Your moment will come because you'll make it come.

It takes so much energy to keep things at bay.

Anger is effortless, Lucian. Kindness is hard. Try to exert yourself

The sorry truth is you can walk your feet to blisters, walk till kingdom-come

Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise;  for the result is waste of time and   general stagnation.

Their blows are correlated. The cheng and the ch'i are compared to two interlocked rings: 'Who can tell where one begins and the other ends?' Their possible permutations are infinite; the cheng effort may be transformed into a ch'i, a ch'i into a cheng. Thus we may redefine a ch'i attack as one made where a decision is speedily attainable at least cost, in an area characterized by voids or fissures in the enemy's defences.

Motivation is the result, not the instigator of change. Action comes first. Then, the action becomes a habit. From the habit, you see results or get rewards, which eventually lead to motivation.

but it finally occurred to me that the time was going to pass anyway, I might as well try to have something to show for it

When I initially heard a description of the search area and the scenario, I was certain this would be a wasted effort. I suspected there was very little we could do, given the huge size of the search area, rough terrain, terrible weather, age of the track (around 52 hours old), and the lack of resources. Clearly, I was wrong. I underestimated the ability of a trained SAR dog. – Deb Tirmenstein

As adults, they often become trapped in a vicious cycle of accepting responsibility for everything, inevitably falling short, feeling guilty and inadequate, and then redoubling their efforts. This is a draining, depleting cycle that leads to an ever-increasing sense of failure.

I had to make myself presentable. Doggedly I dosed myself with Alka-Seltzer.

I thought you might want to try me out." "What for? We hardly need premarital sex to tell us that at first the physical side of marriage is going to be difficult! What matters is not that we confirm this obvious fact before marriage but that after the wedding we're prepared to try hard to overcome the problem.

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