Quotes About Effort

My mother knew Allah accepted late namaazes the way teachers accepted late homework: begrudgingly, but glad we'd put in the effort.

Failure means that you would not, or could not, pay for success. Success is a matter of sale. It can (most often) be bought by a large outlay--of hard forethought--of pains--of steadiness--of the golden wisdom coined from experience. But the figure is too high for most of us. We are too poor, or too slothful, to bring the price.

When you're part of the pioneering effort, there's a focusing of an individual's concentration and level of attention that is at the exclusion of a lot of other things. It's kind of gun-barrel vision.

For every winner, there's a loser. And that person didn't really need to lose. They just didn't understand the game plan.

Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.

Many things — such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly — are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.

Beautiful, neurotic. Elusive. Accused me of giving up on us first. Not sure of that. She said I didn't make enough effort to change, which is true. I'm to blame for getting testy in the end....Lost my sense of humor, which is deadly. She was surprisingly harsh, once she made up her mind that we were through....Best way to break it off, I suppose, but it left a bad taste. I would have preferred kinder memories.

LESSON XIII. RAIN, WIND, AND SNOW. IMAGER Watch the pretty snowflakes fall, Some are large and some are small; Look, they cover all the ground, Miles of dazzling white around; But this covering, I am told, Keeps the earth from frost and cold. Ah! and I must work alway, Life's not meant to spend in play; Every moment's fleeting fast, And our day will soon be past; If our work is truly done, It will last though ages run. Of what use is rain? Of what use is snow? Of what use is wind?

It is not an "imitation of Christ" but its exact opposite: an assimilation of the Christ-image to his own self, which is the "true man."349 It is no longer an effort, an intentional straining after imitation, but rather an involuntary experience of the reality represented by the sacred legend. This

The whole of the libido is needed for the battle of life.

Everything that is beyond the ordinary is paid for. You make no mistake if you never envy any kind of success, for every success is dearly paid for. If you think it is not, you simply don't know; somebody has paid.

What humans can do to change the planet is puny.

how long it took at this high altitude

Avoiding hard work required discipline and a complete awareness of his surroundings, as well as an intuitive sense of when to be in the wrong place when extra time or effort was demanded. Like golf or fly-fishing, it was a lifelong pursuit that he knew he might never perfect but he could certainly continue to improve.

So like Miriam to look for the easy way.

But wanting to change, and actually making it happen were two different things.

What we do not earn ourselves," he said, "is never truly ours. It can always be taken away. But even if we lose everything we work for, the achievement is ours forever.

Since fortune was dragging its heels, I would lure it out with my hard work.

Feito febre, baixava às vezes nele aquela sensação de que nada daria jamais certo, que todos os esforços seriam para sempre inúteis, e coisa nenhuma de alguma forma se modificaria.

If you don't produce, you won't thrive—no matter how skilled or talented you are.

Ironically, jobs are actually easier to enjoy than free time, because like flow activities they have built-in goals, feedback rules, and challenges, all of which encourage one to become involved in one's work, to concentrate and lose oneself in it. Free time, on the other hand, is unstructured, and requires much greater effort to be shaped into something that can be enjoyed.

Doing things we know how to do well is enjoyable, and that's exactly the opposite of what deliberate practice demands….