Quotes About Effort

The goal of our life's effort is to reach the other shore, Nirvana. Prajna paramita, the true wisdom of life, is that in each step of the way, the other shore is actually reached.

Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials.

There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.

You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothing.

. . . [A]s a rule, the most learned persons do not produce the greatest results. We see that only too often.

If you wish to enjoy a position, find ways of being useful, hard working and cooperative with the people whose favour has given you the position

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

It's the fear of what comes after the doing that makes the doing hard to do.

From exertion come wisdom and purity; from sloth ignorance and sensuality.

The world is plentiful with honey, but only the humble bee can collect it.

You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot.

At the end of the day, anybody who thinks there's a reward for nothing, ends up losing.

It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild. (Ch.1)

Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.

English sense has toiled, but Hindoo wisdom never perspired.

originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

Transient are conditioned things. Try to accomplish your aim with diligence.

The law of attraction is feeble without the law of action.

I cannot think of the results of your labors without shame at the little we do.

If you don't succeed, you run the risk of failure.

Consciously or unconsciously, we are all striving for perfection.

When we begin to work earnestly in the world, nature gives us blows right and left and soon enables us to find out our position. No man can long occupy satisfactorily a position for which he is not fit.

This world is like a dog's curly tail, and people have been striving to straighten it out for hundreds of years; but when they let it go, it has curled up again. How could it be otherwise? One must first know how to work without attachment, then one will not be a fanatic.

He who stops his activities and at the same time is still thinking about them attains to nothing; he only becomes a hypocrite. But he who by the power of his mind gradually brings his sense-organs under control, employing them in work, that man is better. Therefore do thou work