Quotes About Effort

Don't be lazy. Descend. You will find life in your heart. There you must live.

What Saint has ever won his crown without first contending for it?

Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.

The study of truth requires a considerable effort - which is why few are willing to undertake it out of love of knowledge - despite the fact that God has implanted a natural appetite for such knowledge in the minds of men.

a perfect customer is one whose needs are a perfect fit for a company's mission. When the relationship between need and service are perfectly aligned, positive results occur with amazing velocity and synergy—almost without effort.

You limit your options every time you don't try your best.

Duane just kept working, not even looking up.

Sometimes it seems to us that that's all life is… just rearranging furniture and keeping house on the deck of the Titanic.

The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.

I had an irresistible desire to make a last effort to awaken your memory.

Neither she nor he was the same any more, yet they were searching for each other in a vain effort, fleeing one another, persisting in disembodied, powerless efforts like those black spectres at their feet.

Sürekli bir ÅŸeyler yapmam gerekiyor. Yaln?zca bir ÅŸeyler yapt???mda bu huzursuzluk hâli geçiyor. O zaman korkmama gerek kalm?yor. Çünkü yaln?zl?k korkusu zehirden beterdir. Bu korkuyu duymaktansa çal??mak daha iyidir. Arkamda bir huzursuzluÄŸun beklediÄŸini hissettiÄŸimde beni yakalayamamas? için koÅŸar?m.

la suma de todas las dificultades vencidas es la que, al fin y a la postre, da la medida de un hecho y del hombre que lo lleva a cabo.

Invento i libri e racconto di averli letti. Fingo così bene e li rigiro nel cervello così a lungo che forse a quel punto potrei anche scriverli. Ma fantasticare è piacevole, scrivere è faticoso.

I did all that with my little hatchet.

Auf dem Pult] stand die Sanduhr. Alle Körner mußten durch die Engstelle, um unten denselben Haufen zu bilden wie vordem oben. Der entstandene Zeitverlust hieß Lateinstunde.

It required an enormous amount of energy and time just to do errands like getting groceries. She was always sweaty after she got groceries.

She had tried. She had fought. And she had lost.

we have noticed a single type of praise that is almost magical in its positive, lifelong effects on children: praise for trying something new.

I can't even really tell a joke. I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work but it ain't easy.

If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.

All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown.

You get what you give, but also what you're willing to take.

My art is just an effort to express the truth of my being in gesture and movement. It has taken me long years to find even one absolutely true movement.