Quotes About Effort

There's a very old expression, Scythe Goddard told him. 'To be painless is to be gainless.

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.

What does it take to unwind the unwanted? It takes twelve surgeons, in teams of two, rotating in and out as their medical specialty is needed. It takes nine surgical assistants and four nurses. It takes three hours.

Se vuoi qualcosa con tutte le tue forze, prima o poi la ottieni

Was there ever a time when people weren't plagued with boredom? A time when motivation wasn't so hard to come by?

I wasn't making a mark," Anastasia told her. "I was putting my finger in a dyke. And it's still there.

You may look at a beautiful garden and marvel at nature's wonder—yet in such a place, nature is nowhere to be found. On the contrary, a garden is a product of loving cultivation and care. With great effort, it is protected from the heartier weeds that nature would use to undermine and choke its splendor.

Para levantar un peso tan abrumador, Sísifo, sería menester tu coraje!

virtud, al contrario, es artificial, sobrenatural, pues han hecho falta, en todas las épocas y en todas las naciones, dioses y profetas para enseñarlas a la humanidad animalizada; el hombre, por sí solo, habría sido incapaz de descubrirla. El mal se hace sin esfuerzo, naturalmente, por fatalidad; el bien es siempre producto de un arte.

Podría compararse este tipo de obra con un puro trabajo manual que debe cubrir cierta cantidad de espacio en un tiempo determinado, o con una larga ruta con un gran número de etapas. Cuando se ha completado una etapa, no hay que volver a hacerla; y cuando se ha recorrido la ruta entera, el artista se libra del cuadro.

L'art est long, et le temps est court.

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Crime, the taste for which the human animal acquired in his mother's belly, is originally natural. Virtue, on the contrary, is artificial, supernatural, since in all times and nations, gods and prophets were necessary to teach it to animalized man, and since man alone would have been powerless to discover it. Evil is done without effort, naturally, by fatality.

The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.

you son of a bitch, she said, I am trying to build a meaningful relationship. you can't build it with a hammer, he said.

Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working.

I'm too careless. I don't put out enough effort. I'm tired.

they say that nothing is wasted: either that or it al is

Potential, I said, doesn't mean a thing. You've got to do it. Almost every baby in a crib has more potential than I have.

The park grass looked greener, the park benches looked better and the flowers were trying harder.

I´ve given you my time. Its all I´ve got to give - its all any man has. And for a pitiful buck and a quarter an hour.

My part of the game is that I must live the best I can.

Trouble and pain were what kept a man alive. Or trying to avoid trouble and pain. It was a full time job.

restless days and sleepless nights always fighting with all your heart and soul so as not to fail at living