Quotes About Effort

Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them.

Your revenue depends on your continuous efforts more than on the quality of your decisions.

Other professions allow you to add zeroes to your output (and your income), if you do well, at little or no extra effort.

Only in recent history has working hard signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse, and, mostly, sprezzatura.

activities. It separates those professions in which one can add zeroes of income with no greater labor from those in which one needs to add labor and time (both of which are in limited supply)

We cannot teach people to withhold judgment; judgments are embedded in the way we view objects. I do not see a "tree"; I see a pleasant or an ugly tree. It is not possible without great, paralyzing effort to strip these small values we attach to matters. Likewise, it is not possible to hold a situation in one's head without some element of bias. Something in our dear human nature makes us want to believe

People got to do something useful if they're going to take up space in the world.

If, in spite of his best efforts, a man fails in a particular undertaking, he does not experience the same emotion of pride that he would feel if he had succeeded; but, if he is rational, his self-esteem is unaffected and unimpaired. His self-esteem is not—or should not be—dependent on particular successes or failures, since these are not necessarily in a man's direct, volitional control and/or not in his exclusive control.

What we make an effort to learn and what we achieve is based, at least in part, on what we think is possible and appropriate to us.

There's a lot of work, a lot of writing, to be done, and there's no telling when the results will begin to show. But if Atlas Shrugged sells 50,000 copies, this culture's cooked.

The books are all in order now. It'll be easy for the children to find any book they want. It was a difficult job. But you did it. Thank you.

Men of uncommon intellect , who have grown morbid, possess this occasional power of mighty effort, into which they throw the life of many days, and then are lifeless for as many more.

La s?n?tatea moral? È™i intelectual? a unui om contribuie mult leg?turile de camaraderie cu oameni deosebiÈ›i de el, pe care nu-i prea intereseaz? È›elurile lui È™i care îl oblig? s? fac? un efort mintal pentru a le aprecia aptitudinile È™i sfera de preocup?ri.

Man's best-directed effort accomplishes a kind of dream, while God is the sole worker of realities.

then it was on to Boston and a big parade. "Finding this ceremony was not to be avoided though I had made every effort to do it," Washington recorded in his diary

Effort has nothing to do with the changes to structure and physiology that develop as a consequence of the intensification of individuation.

The war is singing its last verse, and it requires every effort from all who would call themselves men. You will understand that, won't you?

Walls don't fall without effort.

Small victories are bet­ter than none.

See, if you paint wrong because that's the best you can do, you just a chump. But you do it because you want to? Then you're an artist.

Rumors are like rain through an old roof. The effort of finding the source is greater than the cost of a new roof.

Second place meant first loser.

I don't buy that what-comes-can't-be-avoided garbage. Anything can be avoided if you try hard enough.

Obliteration is our hallmark, he said. We don't always succeed, but we try.