Quotes About Effort

Socialism, like every other impassioned human effort, will flourish best under martyrdom. It will languish and perish in the dry sunlight of open discussion.

Work is a shit way to spend your time and everyone knows it.

The harder we press on a violin string, the less we can feel it. The louder we play, the less we hear. . . . If I 'try' to play, I fail; if I race, I trip. The only road to strength is vulnerability.

The purpose of life—if it may be said to have purpose—is not ease. It is to choose, and to act upon the choice. In that task, we are not measured by outcomes. We are measured only by daring and effort and resolve.

It does not matter where one starts; it is where one finishes that makes all the difference.

talent without discipline is only an empty promise—the glitter of an unworked crystal. It is nothing of itself.

For the scholar no effort is ever wasted.

But, strange to tell, though I could remember those first glowing days of my arrival, I could not without intense effort recall much of my life before that—save in the most indefinite terms. Indeed, when compared to the intensely vivid life I knew in Albion, my life before coming to the Otherworld seemed almost unutterably remote and insignificant, little more than a vague pantomime acted out in a dim, colorless, half-light.

Success will be within your reach only when you start reaching out for it.

Doing the tough things sets winners apart from losers.

The difference between being mediocre and achieving excellence is you.

Hard work is what you do to make ends meet, easy work is getting others to do the hard work for you.

It is in doing things and not reading about them that results come about.

It's no shame in reaching second or third base if you aimed for first base.

When faced with a hurdle then give it all you've got to jump over it because it can't be done in two stages.

Do you truly believe in the worthiness of your dreams? Do you truly think they are worth the consistent effort required to make them manifest? Once you truly believe, nothing can stop you but yourself, for such belief is the same power which creates and maintains all existence.

Big or small, be ready to do your part when you dare to dream and you will be rewarded with success from the Universe.

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, to succeed is a natural consequence of Cosmic Ordering.

If you want more than what most have, then you must do far more than what it is they do.

Successful people got to where they did because they did something, and all successful endeavors exist because of those who acted.

The crowd were totally behind him and it spurred him on, I was right in the heat of battle. There was only one to win; I dug deep and summoned up every bit of strength, I had in me to put in to one punch to see if I could hit the jackpot. I drew him to the ropes and put everything in to a cracking right uppercut and just missed, bastard!

If you play and work hard then rest hard.

It is how hard you want, what you want that gets it.

No successful business is run through thought. It requires people who work.