Quotes About Effort

Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.

Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.

Put 'going the extra mile' to work as part of one's daily habit.

Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle toward a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.

The less effort you put in, the more powerful you will be.

Proprio come per mantenere una buona salute a volte bisogna prendere una medicina sgradevole, così per poter fare le cose che ci piacciono spesso bisogna fare qualcosa che non ci piace.

Relaxation is a physical state, but it is controlled by the mental state. It is acquired by the conscious effort to control the thought as well as the action pattern. It takes perception, practice and willingness to train the mind into new habits of thinking and the body into new habits of action.

Increasingly, companies use their power to influence and manipulate their users. Websites that profit from advertising spend a lot of effort making sure you spend as much time on those sites as possible, optimizing their content for maximum addictiveness.

Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.

Now I work down at the carwash Where all it ever does is rain

They do not discover anything new after that, they only learn how to understand better and better the secret entrusted to them at the outset; their creative effort goes into an unending exegesis, a commentary on that one couplet of poetry assigned to them.

That's why people use terms like flow or effortless to describe writing that they regard as really superb. They're not saying effortless in terms of it didn't seem like the writer spent any work. It simply requires no effort to read it—the same way listening to an incredible storyteller talk out loud requires no effort to pay attention. Whereas when you're bored, you're conscious of how much effort is required to pay attention. Does that make sense?

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

Too much aggression and work will move what you desire further away.

Every shortcut has a price usually greater than the reward.

Work hard, and if you can't work hard, be smart; and, if you can't be smart, be loud.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.

My ambition is handicapped by my laziness.

The difference between success and failure in this life of ours is mostly hard work, so you must constantly work to try to improve yourself.

There are two ways to get to the top of a giant oak tree. You can sit on an acorn and wait. Or you can climb it.

bowing over still further his chronically broken back, he toiled away, as if toil were life itself, and the heavy beating of his hammer the heavy beating of his heart.

No wonder, taking the whole fleet of whalemen in a body, that out of fifty fair chances for a dart, not five are successful; no wonder that so many hapless harpooneers are madly cursed and disrated; no wonder that some of them actually burst their blood-vessels in the boat;

As no better man advances to take this matter in hand, I hereupon offer my own poor endeavors.