Quotes About Effort

Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience.

It is no more possible to make life easy than it is to grow a herb of immortality.

While the earth spins, make yourself useful.

I had been working hard at my book; it was one of those rare days of authorship when everything seemed to go right; the words flowed unbidden from my pen, and the time had passed unheeded, so that it was a shock to realise that I had been writing for some six hours.

And something tells me if it matters, maybe it shouldn't be easy.

Except even at the start, when we were in that can't-get-enough-of-you-phase, there was like some invisible wall between us. At first I tried to take it down, but it took so much effort to even make cracks. And then I got tired of trying. Then I justified it. This was just how adult relationships were, how love felt once you had a few battle scars.

Yeah, but some things you can't control, no matter how hard you try.

I'm waging a tug of war, but no one else is holding the other end of the rope

My entire body is shaking. I'm losing it. A day might be just twenty-four hours but sometimes getting through just one seems as impossible as scaling Everest.

Sé que ni todos los besos mágicos del mundo le habrían ayudado hoy, pero no sé de qué sería capaz por haber podido dárselo.

I shouldn't have to care. I shouldn't have to work this hard. I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.

Dans ce jeu de tir à la corde, je tire de mon côté alors qu´il ný a personne à l´extrémitée opposée

The phrase in tech writing was "easy reading comes from hard writing." Easy consumption of an app comes from really hard work on the backend. - Tori Wieldt

There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness.

it is not so desirable that we should al- ways win, as that the game itself be worth the playing.

The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of his behind.

If only Paris and the Harpies had gotten along. But Promiscuity had taken one look at the beautiful women and deemed them "too much effort.

One step, two...three...Soon she was in front of Aeron, smiling at her success. "What was that?" he asked. "Walking." "Took you so long, I'm officially fifty years older." She raised her chin, pride undiminished. "Well, I didn't fall.

WHY DO MEN DELIGHT IN WORK? FUNDAMENTALLY, I SUPPOSE, BECAUSE THERE IS A SENSE OF RELIEF AND PLEASURE IN GETTING SOMETHING DONE—A KIND OF SATISFACTION NOT UNLIKE THAT WHICH A HEN ENJOYS ON LAYING AN EGG. —H. L. Mencken O

Lutheran spirituality begins with the insight that all human effort to reach God is futile. The will, to use Luther's term, is in bondage—not only can we not fulfill the moral law perfectly, on the deepest level, we do not want to.

One is that it matters. it is not just a department that I can delegate away. it is smack in the middle of every major company effort we have and is critical to almost every aspect of daily operations.

practicing five minutes daily is better than practicing once a week for three hours.

Our goal with a product-based funding model is to value the achievement of organizational and customer outcomes, such as revenue, customer lifetime value, or customer adoption rate, ideally with the minimum of output (e.g., amount of effort or time, lines of code). Contrast this to how projects are typically measured, such as whether it was completed within the promised budget, time, and scope.

Paige might be able to stop working. But is it worth having to deal with