Quotes About Effort

costs of this so-called deal in time and effort? Most high-income generators, whether they are PAWs or UAWs, work more than forty hours a week. Typically, the amount of time remaining each week is allocated in ways that are congruent with their goals. All

I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

I firmly believe in luck. And I noticed: the more I work, the luckier I become.

Everything yields to diligence.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have

Pokud chcete nÄ›co, co jste nikdy nemÄ›li, musíte být ochotni udÄ›lat nÄ›co, co jste nikdy neudÄ›lali.

And so she went on, galloping through thickets of diphthongs, searching—I was sure—for the sound that would not disgrace her husband, and failing at every turn.

It is probably better that the world knows only the result, not the conditions under which it was achieved; because knowledge of the artist's sources of inspiration might bewilder them, drive them away and in that way nullify the effect of the excellent work.

Quien se esfuerza por alcanzar lo excelso, nota el ansia de reposar en lo perfecto

Reposar en la perfección es el anhelo de todo el que se esfuerza por alcanzar lo sublime; y ¿no es acaso la nada una forma de perfección?

Want voor arbeid had hij het allergrootste respect, ofschoon hij er persoonlijk wel gauw moe van werd.

A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.

If you persist in trying To attain what is never attained (It is Tao's gift!) If you persist in making effort To obtain what effort cannot get; If you persist in reasoning About what cannot be understood, You will be destroyed By the very thing you seek.

We should not, however, judge the value of our meditation by "how we feel." A hard and apparently fruitless meditation may in fact be much more valuable than one that is easy, happy, enlightened and apparently a big success.

effort is necessary, enlightened, well-directed and sustained.

mistake to suppose that mere good will is, by itself, a sufficient guarantee that all our efforts will finally attain to a good result. Serious mistakes can be made, even with the greatest good will.

Misplaced effort in the spiritual life often consists in stubbornly insisting upon compulsive routines which seem to us to be necessary because they accord with our own short-sighted notions.

It is easy to stand still and leave no trace, but it is hard to walk without touching the ground. (p. 53)

Only a man who works purely for God can at the same time do a very good job and leave the results of the job to God alone.

You pray and suffer and hang on and give things up and hope and sweat, and the varying contours of the struggle work out the shape of your liberty. When it ends, and when you have a good habit to work with, do not forget the moments of the battle when you were wounded and disarmed and helpless. Do not forget that, for all your efforts, you only won because of God, Who did the fighting in you.

Try to squeeze a watermelon into a small tumbler sometime when your reflexes are not so good. It is next to impossible.

But they produced nothing but talk and at that not very good talk. A few like Slab actually did what they professed; turned out a tangible product. But again, what? Cheese Danishes.

Someone with an inborn knack for mathematics or music may be just as productive as someone who was born with lesser talents in these fields and who had to work very hard to achieve the same level of proficiency. However, we reward productivity rather than merit, for the perfectly valid reason that we know how to do it.