Quotes About Effort

It's one thing to decide what you want. It's quite another to know how to get it. William doesn't know how, but he is trying.

Unless by some miracle, he got up from the chair and changed his life. Unless some store of character revealed itself, and with a little guidance from me, he returned in six months a new man. But even then, I thought, that change, that character, would have to be in him already. I was never going to manufacture it with a few stern warnings—God knows I'd tried—and pain forgets within the hour what it learns in an instant.

The funny thing about work itself, it was so bearable. The dreariest task was perfectly bearable. It presented challenges to overcome, the distraction provided by a sense of urgency, and the things made work utterly, even harmoniously bearable.

Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They're willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to perservere in the face of many difficult odds. There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it.

Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.

If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there's no way around doing the work it takes to get you there.

A good home must be made, not bought.

Eleanor saw her days with her children as a kind of artwork, and as with the practice of making art, much that you attempted didn't work out. Still, the act of doing it felt as demanding and precious as the creation of any book.

Trabajar es crear, producir, multiplicarse en las obras de su hechura: nada puede haber más plácido y lisonjero para

El trabajo me parece una estupidez odiosa a la que es difícil escapar

Trabajaba mucho, eso sí, pero la vida es trabajo, ¿no? El que nace pobre tiene que trabajar, ¡a ver si no!

se acababa el trabajo en Cómo Yukong movió las montañas

Tan buena que irás cantando y bailando hacia ella, como una cucaracha que se zambulle en un barreño de insecticida haciendo un doble tirabuzón.

Nadie tiene derecho a derribar de un capirotazo lo que las generaciones previas erigieron con infinito esfuerzo: porque en el esfuerzo de esas generaciones hay mucho amor insomne, muchos sacrificios ímprobos, muchas lágrimas vertidas, muchos júbilos compartidos

There's that moment early in your career when you will work harder than any other point afterward.

The thing that ruined your life makes you good at your work. And then you get rewarded at work, so you don't bother to fix it in your life.

With failure, you just try again.

She sincerely wishes success, for her new life, and intends that no failure of effort, temper, or spirits on her part will jeopardise it.

The effort to identify the enemy as singular in form is a reverse-discourse that uncritically mimics the strategy of the oppressor instead of offering a different set of terms.

The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold of that which must remain elusive for language to operate as a living thing.

She interpreted discipline as doing what was possible with consistency. I had interpreted discipline as quantity. I realized that I thought two hours of yoga practice indicated a disciplined life, whereas five minutes did not. In time, I came to realize her wisdom: Do what you can and do it fully.

What you will do matters. All you need is to do it.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others.

Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.