Quotes About Effort

To lift such a heavy weight, Sisyphus, you will need all your courage. I do not lack the courage to complete the task But the goal is far and time is short.

Her little shop might not change the world . . . or garner her a Nobel Peace Prize . . . but Mother Teresa had been right. Not everyone was able to do great things, but everyone could do small things with great love.

I was now, all the time, unutterably tired as if simply keeping alive was a terrible effort.

No good would come of all these fine intentions.

It's not so easy. What isn't? To establish relationships, you can't just elect people, it can't be done by thinking and willing.

All the effort which he had put into making himself seemed vanity now that there were no more purposes

Ah suppose man, ah'm too much ay a perfectionist, ken? It's likesay, if things go a bit dodgy, ah jist cannae be bothered, y'know.

He's going on and on, and I can't be bothered. I just can't be fuckin well arsed saying something like: Solaris shites all over 2001, and then listening to him arguing vehemently against it. Or, alternatively, waiting for him to say it, and then being expected to argue engingly, as if to agree, even if we do, is a sign that we're effete proofs. I can't be bothered with it and I can't even be bothered to tell him that I can'be be bothered.

Talent is only a starting point.

Who loves — lives, who lives - works, and who works has some bread.

Diligence does not work if there is a lack of innate talent.

However, I continue to try and I continue, indefatigably, to reach out. There's no way I can single-handedly save the world or, perhaps, even make a perceptible difference - but how ashamed I would be to let a day pass without making one more effort.

Contra la estupidez, los propios dioses luchan en vano

The Earth, he said, is a large and very complex lifeboat. We still do not know what can or can't be done with a proper distribution of resources and it is notorious that to this very day we have not really made an effort to distribute them. In many places on Earth, food is wasted daily, and it is that knowledge that drives hungry men mad.

Can't you try>? However useless the effort may seem to you to be, have you anything better to do with your life? Have you some worthier goal? Have you a purpose that will justify you in your own eyes to some greater extent?

That is, he made boasts. But boasts are wind and deeds are hard.

estoy a punto de lanzar todo mi peso contra una puerta y encontrar que está abierta de par en par.

Debes seguir enviando tu trabajo; nunca debes dejar un manuscrito guardado en un cajón y cogiendo polvo. Manda ese trabajo una y otra vez mientras trabajas en el siguiente. Si tienes talento, alcanzarás algún tipo de éxito. Pero sólo si persistes.

boasts are wind and deeds are hard.

Mantener la disciplina en circunstancias ideales no tiene ningún mérito.

There's no merit in discipline under ideal circumstances.

For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.

A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration.

Sadness and boredom were more bearable than the effort of living a normal life. Perhaps the idea of death began to hover over her during that period, as a kind of higher order of lassitude in which she would not have to move the blood in her veins or the air in her lungs; her repose would be absolute- not to think, not to feel, not to be.