Quotes About Effort

We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.

Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.

Getting up, going to bed, preparing food, eating food--we futile creatures must struggle all the time. Nothing that we need comes to us; we must reach for everything.

The "secret" to success has always been the same: education and hard work.

Only the effort of walking calmed me, and allowed me to think at all. p 227

It is always better to earn things than to be given them.

God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.

There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.

If you have a sweet tooth and you're making a concerted effort to get yourself off sugar, take a supplement called glutamine when you have a craving (1,000 milligrams every four to six hours as needed).

once we get it, we lose it and start looking for it all over again. That's why it's called a practice. You never master it.

Most paths of self-correction purposely increase the effort and struggle to achieve these states or vibrations. They insist that you must 'earn it' or 'handle it' or 'surrender to it' or 'get it' when the truth is you already have immediate access to all of it.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

Prac­tice doesn't make per­fect. It makes bet­ter.

and use the uttermost effort of our mind to purify them of the limitations that arise in them from our limitation. That is the way of advance for the mind. Human language is not adequate to utter God, but it is the highest we have and we should use its highest words.

You only go around once, but if you play your cards right, once is enough.

When you have done your best for a flower, and it fails, you have some reason to be aggrieved.

Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain.22

I think when I'm in love, I really am very good with calling, little faxes, and visiting and I really put a lot of effort into it. I'm really not the one that's not available because of work and I'm very sad when I actually leave.

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble,Making a Giant hit into a double,Words that are weighty with nothing but trouble:"Tinker to Evers to Chance."

Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.

Most people like hard work. Particularly when they are paying for it.

The quickest and shortest way to crush whatever laurels you have won is for you to rest on them.