Quotes About Effort

Oliver did not seem to understand that the only real fulfilment on this earth was to be gained through hard work. Life as a series of momentary pleasures satisfied no one. He needed to make an investment in it, an investment of himself.

Not for the last time she was struck by the tyranny of the socially inept. Endless effort is harnessed to a sluggish and boring conversation simply to preserve these dullards from a sense of their inadequacy. The irony being that they are quite impervious to their own shortcomings.

Let the learning go on without your being too conscious of it, and it is all done more smoothly and efficiently. Sometimes too much so, for, in complex skills like typing, one may learn to consistently type 'hte' for 'the'. The remedy is to reverse the process by consciously practicing the mistake 'hte', whereupon contrary to the usual idea of 'practice makes perfect', the mistake drops away—a phenomenon called negative practice.

A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.

Success is failing nineteen times and soaring the twentieth.

Nonchalance, she could have told Argosy, does not pay.

Going for it and changing what you could change-that's what success was all about.

The thing you learn with Potage Parmentier is that simple is not exactly the same as easy.

I wanted so much to keep you safe. I did my best. I'm sorry things didn't come out different for the two of us. I wish I could have been good enough for you.

Practice your skills; sharpen your tools; do the best job you can.

Nothing like hard work for driving away the shadows.

We're going to be busy.

Like running trying to live a good life has to hurt a little bit, or we're not running hard enough, not really trying.

winner's make it happen ; losers let it happen .

His expression hardened. It was unpleasant to have feelings that he had been at pains to check aroused to no purpose

You can only do what you can no matter how you try.

Pentru un b?rbat munca pare s? fie ceva esen?ial, care-l ajut? s?-ndure scurgerea f?r? ?int? a timpului.

Singura cale s? eviÅ£i munca este s? munceÅŸti. Nu munca în sine este preÅ£ioas?; ci faptul c? învingem munca prin munc?. Adev?rata valoare a muncii s?l??luieÅŸte în puterea renun??rii la sine.

Ar fi greu s? înfrunÅ£i natura încercînd s? prefaci o pant? blînd? într-una abrupt?.

Grea era aÅŸteptarea! Timpul p?rea strans în nesfarÅŸite cute adanci, ca niÅŸte foaie. Dac? nu se oprea la fiecare cut?, erau tot soiul de b?nuieli, fiecare cu arma ei. ÎÅ£i trebuia un efort teribil ca s? mergi înainte, f?candu-te c? nu le crezi ÅŸi dandu-le la o parte. În fine, dup? ce aÅŸteptase toat? noaptea, venir? zorile. DimineaÅ£a radea de el, lipindu-ÅŸi faÅ£a, ca burta unui melc, de geamul ferestrei.

I couldn't see you, no matter how I tried, if you moved around like a jellyfish.

Waiting was a bore. With work one understands one's own effort is everything, but in waiting one can't use one's own strength.

Even a monkey could shovel up the sand if it just had a little practice. I should be able to do a lot more than that. A man has the obligation to make full use of the abilities he has

The only way to go beyond work is through work. It is not that work itself is valuable; we surmount work by work. The real value of work lies in the strength of self-denial