Quotes About Effort

That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.

America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

A única pessoa que muda de verdade a face do planeta é aquele que lavra modestamente o seu terreno.

freedom of a nation cannot be won by solitary acts of heroism'; rather, it 'requires the patient, intelligent, and constructive effort of tens of thousands of men and women, young and old'.

The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

The reply comes as a current of awareness in the Heart, fitful at first and only achieved by intense effort, but gradually increasing in power and constancy, becoming more spontaneous, acting as a check on thoughts and actions, undermining the ego, until finally the ego disappears and the certitude of pure Consciousness remains.

So long as they make efforts they will not be sages (jnanis).

There is a state beyond our efforts or effortlessness. Until it is realised effort is necessary. After tasting such Bliss, even once, one will repeatedly try to regain it. Having once experienced the Bliss of Peace no one would like to be out of it or engaged himself otherwise.

Blame me not for my failures, for thats natural, but surely do for my achievements thats I rarely stumble upon with no motive whatsoever to achieve!

My perception of your beauty was far more erotic than your real beauty! Am I to be blamed for taking too much effort on my part in beautifying you or did you fail in seducing me?

Whate?er the work a man performs, The most effective aid to its completion? The most prolific source of true success? Is energy, without despondency.

Hard work guarantees you nothing. But laziness assures

Hard work guarantees you nothing. But laziness assures failure. Work hard, or you have only yourself to blame.

Laying another log on the fire of failure

There is a significant difference between feeling like a failure and admitting failure. The first can be a driving force; the second is the relinquishment of all effort, and therefore all hope. DeMarco understood this in his bones but had never articulated it to himself or anybody else. It had taken Thomas Huston to put it into words for him. They had been sitting on

Bruno] Latour argues that one of the foundational gestures of western modernity has been the effort to formulate and police a heightened antimony between nonhuman nature and human culture. -- Randall Styers, Making Magic , p. 17

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning. Chuck Noll

Work hard, work passionately, but apply your most precious asset—time—to what is most meaningful to you.

And it hurts as a player, that you put a lot of hard work in during the week, and at the end of the week, Sunday, when you get on the field, that's when they acknowledge about the hard work that you put in throughout the week. That's actually a disappointment.

Too many people go through life complaining about their problems. I've always believed that if you took one tenth the enrgy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you'd be surprised by how well things can work out.