Quotes About Effort

you can work together if you try hard.

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.

My personality, when tasked with creating meals, goes something like this: Is there a way we can make this more difficult? Because let's do that. I don't mean to complicate things. It's just - why buy pre-packaged potato salad when you can spend your morning boiling potatoes and flipping out because there's no dill in the house?

I can't wring blood from a stone.

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

It's the way of the lay, not the size of the prize.

Nothing was easy, and sometimes she failed, and sometimes she thought that the fairy stories were right, that there must indeed be easier ways of living happily ever after; but defeat is a poor ending to any tale, so she kept trying.

Good intentions are not enough. They've never put an onion in the soup yet.

There is no success without hardship.

Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

When I have tried and failed, I shall have failed.

Who can play without wanting to succeed even with a sentimentally gain?

More grows in the garden than the gardener sows.

I'm sorry, okay, I'm not perfect, but I'm trying.

Lengthen your stride/go the extra mile

honesty is hard work.

One of the beauties of carpentry is the way pure theoretical math and the savagery of a swinging hammer merge. You

To fill the jugs we kneel on jagged rock and force them underwater, using the muscle mechanics you'd use drowning a hippo. We

He who would win high spiritual degrees, must pass endless tests and examinations. But most are anxious only to bribe the examiner.

The intelligent use humor as a shield against humiliation. The cruel use humor as a sword to insult others. The irresponsible use humor to escape from responsibility. The fool takes humor too seriously! Humor is spontaneous; to make an effort to be humorous makes no sense.

When you don't worry whether you win or lose, or you don't even consider its effect, you give your hundred percent, then that is really playing, that is a real game.

The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually became wealthy clearly reveals that their 'luck' arose from accidental dedication they had to an arena they enjoyed.

Success without hard work is like sauce without salt