Quotes About Effort

Take flight each day! At least for a moment, however brief, as long as it is intense. Every day a "spiritual exercise,"…Leave ordinary time behind. Make an effort to rid yourself of your own passions… Become eternal by surpassing yourself. This inner effort is necessary, this ambition, just.

Oh, the vanity of plans! Our lives proceed regardless. All the things we work out in such minute detail slip away from us at the last moment, or change.

Forgetting takes a lot of work. You have to constantly remember that you are supposed to forget something. Surely, that's how every ideology functions.

The days you work are the best days.

But throughout my life I have rarely if ever achieved what I wanted by tackling it in a logical fashion.

At last, after much effort, there came a prolonged belch from the mud and Larry shot to the surface and we hauled him up the bank. He stood there, covered with the black and stinking slush, looking like a chocolate statue that has come in contact with a blast furnace; he appeared to be melting as we watched.

To say that you will exert your best efforts is little more than to say you will try. But you must begin to understand that — for you, forward of this moment — you do not have the luxury of merely trying at anything you undertake, and failure is not an option." "But

Often when managers say, "Testing takes too long," what they should be saying is, "Fixing the bugs in the product takes too long"—a different cost category. Make sure you're accounting for effort and time under the correct cost category.

In this business, it takes all the running you can do just to stay in the same place. The

Failure is easy. This is a badge of shame.

El sentido común nos dice por qué: si no está obteniendo lo que desea, es claro que cualquier cosa que haya realizado hasta este punto no está funcionando.

Does any woman ever count the grains of her harvest and say: Good enough? Or does one always think of what more one might have laid in, had the labor been harder, the ambition more vast, the choices more sage?

How often it is that an idea that seems bright bossed and gleaming in its clarity when examined in a church, or argued over with a friend in a frosty garden, becomes clouded and murk-stained when dragged out into the field of actual endeavor.

The heat of late afternoon closed in around us like an animate thing; you could feel it on your skin, warm and moist, like a great beast panting. The air was so dense it seemed to require a huge effort even to inhale it. It lay thick in the lungs and seemed to give no refreshment.

One learns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.

No one knows what he can do until he tries.

You can't get blood out of a turnip.

You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.

Some people can carry a tune, but they seem to stagger under the load.

They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.

Labor conquers all things.

The lazy are always wanting to do something.