Quotes About Effort

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.

When the average person goes to an apple orchard, he will usually pay attention only to the fruit. If he goes to a nursery, he will notice only the beauty and fragrance of the flowers. Few people consider that the fruit and flowers are only the result of a great deal of planning, preparation, and hard work. In the same way, when most people see another person's success, few will stop to think about how that person could be so successful.

The reason that most people don't possess these extraordinary physical capabilities isn't because they don't have the capacity for them, but rather because they're satisfied to live in the comfortable rut of homeostasis and never do the work that is required to get out of it. They live in the world of "good enough." The same thing is true for all the mental activities we engage in,

How much you improve is up to you.

Purposeful practice is all about putting a bunch of baby steps together to reach a longer-term goal.

The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate "apparently ordinary" people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.

Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory.

wise man once said, the difference between luck and a wheelbarrow is, luck doesn't work if you push it.

If there's one truth in this life, it's that you simply can't win. The most you can achieve is to make a nuisance of yourself, for a very short time.

And with every massive success you notch up, you ask for and get more money, not because you want it to buy things with but because it's the only reliable way in this business of keeping score. If you're getting x every night but your best friend and deadliest rival is getting x+1, it's enough to break your heart. So you try harder, and harder still.

the fundamental difference between luck and a wheelbarrow; only one of them was designed to be pushed.)

In the end he came to the conclusion that it was like being chased by his own shadow; it could never actually catch him, but it'd never give up trying.

the difference between luck and a wheelbarrow is, luck doesn't work if you push it.

For work has no other aim than the getting of knowledge: When that comes, then work is put away.  The flower blooms for the fruit: when the fruit comes, the flower withers. The musk is in the deer, but it seeks it not within itself: it wanders in quest of grass.

Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of the sweat of their brows or the blood of their hearts.

To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.

Wackford tat nur wenige Dinge schnell, und sprechen gehörte nicht dazu. Er war fleißig, bemüht und stark wie ein junger Dockarbeiter, aber Geschwindigkeit war für ihn ein Fremdwort wie Frontispiz und Faksimile.

the roots of education are sometimes bitter but fruits are always sweet.

Football is EASY but some people take it HARD

The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.

Genius has to work hard too. Our conception of the privileges of genius is a false one.

The man who toils for toils sake does so only to satisfy himself that he has "toiled," as the world as told him to do. And if he does not find Truth, he is content to say that he did the necessary toil and still did not find it, and thus it wasn't meant to be.

you are essentially saying is that success is for the mediocre.