Quotes About Effort

Comprendió que el empeño de modelar la materia incoherente y vertiginosa de que se componen los sueños es el más arduo que puede acometer un varón

Y'know what they call the person who does all the work but gets none of the credit? An opportunity.

if you weren't cheating, you weren't trying.

Upon my word, there is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure – it is, after all, what every body does all the time.

Palavra de honra, não existe nada no mundo tão fácil de explicar como o fracasso... É, afinal de contas, o que todo mundo alcança o tempo inteiro.

El amor no conviene a los perezosos, para existir en plenitud exige gestos fuertes y precisos.

Si la vida es un recorrido, se trata de un recorrido siempre cuesta arriba.

The writer has two kinds of faith: actual writing and sitting openly. Have faith in your personal effort or sweat. And faith in God, or whatever you want to call it. Then the voices will come. Faith is the big deal.

A private wealth-management firm always invited the wife of one of the company's executives to events. Everyone knew that she would be the first to say hello, to offer a hand, or to help someone find a seat. She always acted as if she were greeting people in her own home, said the event manager. She was better than most of our salespeople. Be first. Take the initiative. People appreciate it when you make the effort.

Good intentions and earnest effort are not enough. Only Jesus can make an otherwise futile life productive.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

Effort, concentration, and mindfulness are the internal ways in which the mind restores itself from being out of balance and lost in confusion to a condition of ease, clarity, and wisdom NO external action needs to happen. [p. 17]

It's going to be a lot of work, Gideon, Eva warned him. I'm not afraid of work. He was touching me restlessly as if it were as necessary to him as breathing. I'm only afraid of losing you.

I've never worked so hard for anything in my life as I have for you.

Eva: Do you understand how much time and work a relationship between us is going to take? Gideon Gideon: but you're worth it and i want you bad enough, so i guess i dont have a choice dont I?

Eva: it's going to be a lot of work.,Gideon Gideon: im not afraid of work Im only afraid of LOSING YOU

I'm fighting here, with everything I've got. Fight for me, too.

No, por Dios. Con un poco de suerte, lo hará como tú. Como dice Cary, no todo se le puede dar bien o, de lo contrario, tendremos que empezar a odiarlo.

I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.

Through the mind like an oyster labors on and on, / A grain of sand is all we have

Tuve oportunidades. Probé y traté. Cosí la vida a mi vida como una voz rara. Caminé con cuidado, con precaución, como un objeto extraño. Intenté no pensar demasiado. Traté de ser natural.

Se eu nunca aprendesse, nunca teria que colocar aquilo em prática.

I love my rejections. They prove that I'm trying'. I'm convinced this quote from Sylvia Plath is one of the best incentives to keep a struggling writer from giving up.

But, to salve my conscience, I must feel the pain of work