Quotes About Effort

Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem, difficile est, verum hoc qua lubet efficias.

Weed it and reap.

All my life I've tried to avoid pain, with indifferent success.

when everyone had backups of themselves scattered around the galaxy, it required a vastly disproportionate effort to inconvenience someone, let alone kill them.

had to be maintained. It took only minutes to carve a fresh

You fear that every effort has been meaningless, but it touches so many others that we can never calculate the impact of our lives, and that impossibility of calculation is a retort to finitude.

Lifes a maze, you have to keep trying until you hit the right path

What's your least favorite thing to do? Why?

The use of talent is far more important than the possession of talent.

So I'll do that, and I'll do my best and if my best isn't good enough, at least I will have done everything I could, everything that is in me. I don't have to try to be someone else, someone I could never be.

But somewhere, a child surprises himself with his endurance, his quick mind, his dexterous hands. Somewhere a child accomplishes with ease that which usually takes great effort. And this child, who has been blind to his past, but his heart still beats for the thrill of the race, this child's soul awakens. And a new champion walks among us.

We all play by the same rules; it's just that some people spend more time reading those rules and figuring out how to make them work in their behalf.

Love is a verb.

you can't believe how hard it is to make a puffin not look like a chump

When we're in the thrall of a healthy passion, we experience a magical melding of effort and enjoyment. Formidable obstacles become intriguing puzzles, and minor wins, badges of accomplishment. We are most alive when we're doing something that enchants us. Sadly, for most people, that something isn't found at work.

working at something until it regularly works for you.

Mastery is a commitment to becoming your best, so to achieve extraordinary results you must embrace the extraordinary effort it represents.

direction: the majority of what you want will come from the minority of what you do.

There are so many great reasons to devote all of your time and effort to taking and marketing listings. The Millionaire Real Estate Agent grasps the incredible advantages of making, obtaining, and marketing seller listings their primary lead-generation focus, and they do so almost exclusively. Over time, they will hire one or more buyer specialists to work the buyer side of the business and concentrate their energy on the high-return, high-leverage business of listings.

In an attempt to make it all work, I began to bear down even harder. You might say that I started to clench my way to success. I really did. I thought that this might be the way you went through life—with your jaw clenched, your fist clenched, your stomach clenched, and your butt clenched.

All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time—all of them.

The inequality of effort for results is everywhere in your life if you will simply look for it. And if you apply this principle, it will unlock the success you seek in anything that matters to you.

giving the best you have to become the best you can be at your most important work.

When you want the absolute best chance to succeed at anything you want, your approach should always be the same. Go small.