Quotes About Effort

you should work like a master and not as a slave; work incessantly, but do not do slave's work.

Misery comes through attachment, not through work.

there must be a continuous struggle, a constant fight, an unremitting grappling with our lower nature, till the higher want is actually felt and the victory is achieved.

if you want to do a great or a good work, do not trouble to think what the result will be.

flying from work is never the way to find peace.

Practise hard; whether you live or die does not matter. You have to plunge in and work, without thinking of the result.

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.

Failure is not the worst thing in the world. The very worst is not to try.

No one or anything on this earth is perfect; Can only try to be perfect

God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest.

If you squander your time on the tricks of the trade, On discovering just how a shortcut is made, You've neglected the work and your skills are but frail. If you fail to prepare, you're preparing to fail.

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing poorly. (friend who is a priest said regarding prayer)

You have to maximize every single day and do everything you can to reach your fullest potential,

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.

Success is just a little more effort.

As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at it.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can.

He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again.

Partial Quote; "A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage". Full Quote; "A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort".

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little; do something.

For me, the 'ask' is similar to squeezing or crumbling pastry, but in the next nano-second I am releasing the crumbs back

I thought I could save a very worthwhile person.

If you are willing to do only what's easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what's hard, life will be easy.