Quotes About Effort

It is by persevering that one conquers difficulties, not by running away from them. One who perseveres is sure to triumph. Victory goes to the most enduring. Always do your best and the Lord will take care of the results. Words of The Mother, vol.14, p.173

this was going to be easy peasy.

Oh, blessed are the children of endeavor in this, that they try and are hopeful. And blessed also are they who, knowing, smile and approve.

Transplantation is not always successful in the matter of flowers or maidens.

Et vous... nous... sommes-nous responsables des progrès et des réussites de l'humanité ? - Mais nous les partageons... Nous sommes cette humanité. Cette humanité qui fait de son mieux pour se tuer.

We should not be too proud of being vegetarian, for example. We must acknowledge that the water in which we boil our vegetables contain many microorganisms, not to mention the vegetables themselves, But even when we cannot be completely nonviolent, by being vegetarian we are going in the direction of nonviolence....Our effort is only to proceed in that direction.

Do not sit by while others are working. Do not avoid heavy work or seek light work. Do not covet the work of others or compare your work with others. Do not take on work beyond your capacity or state of health.

Of course, you have the right to suffer, but as a practitioner, you do not have the right not to practice. We all need to be understood and loved, but the practice is not merely to expect understanding and love. It is to practice understanding and love. Please don't complain when no one seems to love or understand you. Make the effort to understand and love them better.

I think there's a role for everybody. Even a guy who's not known as a scorer, like a DeAndre Jordan - he sets the best screens, he blocks the most shots, he gets the most rebounds, he's great for your team, he helps you win games. Like, he helps you win big.

It's the journey to get there. It's that moment in that locker room when you're with a group of people that have gotten it done. There's nothing like it. If you could bottle that up and take that out in the world, you'd dominate.

Life is a balance, and as much effort as I put into my fitness journey, I needed to put into my own mind journey, my brain is just as important, and loving myself is just as important as loving my body.

I can't control what the judges give me.

I just try to do my best and make the best judgments I can.

I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.

We really just fit our work in and around the family's needs. I'm not juggling it all brilliantly, I'm doing my best.

You jump on a bike and start peddling. You fall down and you get up again. I've always been a 'learn by doing' kind of guy.

You try to figure out the best way to throw the shot put, or the perfect way to long jump, and you don't ever get it. You just chip away, chip away, chip away as time goes on.

We have to jump into the competition and prove ourselves every moment.

Whenever I jump into the car I always try to do my best.

I'm going to try to jump over people, and I'm going to try to run all day. If my body lets me, I'll do it.

It took me a while to get used to moving and jumping in the sand. It takes a lot more effort in the sand.

I've been working on it a lot, trying to find the artistic balance, trying to find purpose in my movement combined with the jumps.

The truth of basketball is done in competition and fundamentals and team, but there's a lot of other junk that goes around the game.

I am kind of the front man for a team of people behind the scenes who are working just as hard as me and are putting in just as much time to make this all happen. I'm not trying to be humble. I just want everyone to get credit where credit is due.