Quotes About Effort

Never give 100% when start of something, it will take time, patience, and effort to build an empire.

My past experiences have proven to me that there are people who don't want you to know that they do not know. So they hide it through distraction in the form of criticizing other individuals. There are people who hold ill will toward others who have done the work and achieved the things that they have not, dreamers who never put forth the effort required to attain them in their own lives. My book is not for them. It's for you who realize that the thorns are worth the attainment of the rose. The

Sometimes age succeeds, sometimes it fails. It depends on you.

I'm saying it to your face. Just because you can drive a car doesn't mean you can fix one. Eating ham ain't the same as raising a pig.

The freedom of Brahman surrounds those whose minds are controlled, who know themselves and who release themselves from selfish desire and anger with sustained effort. (5.24

Guys and their initiative - sometimes that too is like extracting meat from the armature of a crab.

Briefly, I tried to imitate her. But, I had only the form, not the substance.

I really feel that if you're gonna be good, you gotta practice... Practice whatever the hell you do.

you have to do something for yourself. The Declaration of Independence promises the pursuit of happiness. You got to work for it.

The situation demands effort but thwarts trying.

The first is that all effort to negate self only succeeds in affirming it. The second is that self is not a thing but a reference position.

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

Luck is the dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

A little bit of luck helps, yes, but the key element, which too many in our affluent society have forgotten, is still hard work—grinding it out. Ray

I was fascinated by the simplicity and effectiveness of the system they described that night. Each step in producing the limited menu was stripped down to its essence and accomplished with a minimum of effort.

There are things money can't buy and hard work can't win. One of them is happiness.

Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we'd find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

Play is just another version of work

Los insatisfechos siempre creen merecer más de lo que les dan y de esas quejas se hace un mundo de pusilánimes e inútiles. De gente que le pide a la tierra fruto sin haber puesto antes empeño.

L'instruction! Voyez ce que c'est, monsieur, que l'instruction. On apprend quelque chose à l'école, on se donne même du mal, beaucoup de mal, pour apprendre quelque chose à l'école, et puis vingt ans après, ou même avant, ce n'est plus ça, les choses ont changé, on ne sait plus rien, alors vraiment ce n'était pas la peine. Aussi je préfère penser qu'apprendre.

We all have a shovel in life. Some of us use it to build a pyramid with a great view, and some dig a hole to nowhere.

Each of us can only do the best we can for as many as we can and that will never be good enough for those of us who care!

At the conventional level, the precept of no intoxicants is understood as encouraging us to control our behavior by not using addictive substances to manipulate our state of being. Ironically, using individual effort to try to control our behavior is itself a violation of the ultimate meaning of the precept, because it is akin to manipulating our experience.

If you don't exert yourself, or if your exertions don't amount to much of anything, then you might as well not have bothered to have shown up for your existence at all.