Quotes About Effort

One must exert oneself in order to achieve a life that matters. If you don't exert yourself, or if your exertions don't amount to much of anything, then you might as well not have bothered to have shown up for your existence at all.

All of life is like this. You may attempt over and over again to accomplish a goal, but if you do so from an intellectual standpoint only, you'll rarely be successful.

You are making something, a life, a self, and it is an intensely creative task as well as one at which it is more than possible to fail, a little, a lot, miserably, fatally.

A comprehensive utopia may be out of reach, but the effort to realise it shapes the world for the better all the same. The belief may not be true, but it is useful. Belief makes the world.

It's a pragmatic response: a comprehensive Utopia may be out of reach, but the effort to realize it shapes the world for the better all the same. The belief may not be true, but it is useful. Belief makes the world.

At my glummest, I sometimes think women get to choose—between being punished for being unsubjugated and the continual punishment of subjugation. If ideas don't go back in the box, there's still been a huge effort to put women back in their place. Or the place misogynists think we belong in, a place of silence and powerlessness.

You don't get no trophies for livin the life you born into. It just be your job, and you lucky if you can do the work set out in front of you and not fret if it seem puny. Chaney, Little Altars Everywhere

But we knew that when one goes into a shop and buys a cake one gets nothing but a cake, which may be very good, but is only a cake; whereas if one goes into the kitchen and makes a cake because some people one respects and probably likes are coming to eat at one's table, one is striking a low note on a scale that is struck higher up by Beethoven and Mozart.

Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts. But it is also in terror, because those values are threatened, and it is not certain whether they will triumph in this world, and of course music is a missionary effort to colonise earth for imperialistic heaven.

Joe, don't go sensitive on me. It doesn't suit you." He consulted his feelings. She was right. And in any case, it was too much of an effort in this weather to keep it up. "Apology accepted," he said. "Apology? You going deaf too?

Ce qui s'apprend sans peine ne vaut rien et ne demeure pas.

By working so hard at self-improvement we lose the energy and ability to participate in any form of social change

Laziness will stop your progress in your spiritual practice.

LAZINESS WILL STOP your progress in your spiritual practice. One can be deceived by three types of laziness: the laziness of indolence, which is the wish to procrastinate; the laziness of inferiority, which is doubting your capabilities; and the laziness that is attachment to negative actions, or putting great effort into non-virtue.

JUNE 5 IN THE MEDITATION of mental quiescence, in the nine states of mind, there is a state where striving must be abandoned; an effortless concentration is necessary at a certain stage. It is effortless: that means your mind becomes very tranquil — with good qualities and its character complete. At that moment, if you make an effort that disturbs the tranquillity. So in order to maintain that pure tranquillity effortless effort must be used.

But sometimes the committee members complained that in our effort to be equitable we dragged out the process, talking too much, agonizing too long, and increasing the pain. Perhaps that was the unavoidable price for corporate democracy.

Once employees feel challenged, invigorated, and productive, their efforts will naturally translate into profit and growth for the organization.

Mult sunt enim voct, pauc autem lct. (Matthew 20.16:

Choose a love and work to make it true, and somehow, something will happen, something you couldn't plan, will come along to move like to like, to set you loose, to set you on the way to your next brick wall.

There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years.

The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.

Everybody is given a Dream... you may have to work for it however...

Hiçbirinize, onu gerçekleÅŸtirecek güç olmaks?z?n bir dilek verilmemiÅŸtir. Ne var ki gerçekleÅŸtirmek için çal??man?z gerekebilir.

You are never given a wish without the power to make it come true... You may have to work for it however.