Quotes About Effort

In his view, we were already a success, because we were doing something hard and it was something that mattered to us. You don't measure things like that with words like success or failure, he said. Satisfaction comes from trying hard things and then going on to the next hard thing, regardless of the outcome. What mattered was whether or not you were moving in a direction you thought was right.

farming takes root in you and crowds out other endeavors, makes them seem paltry. Your acres become a world. And maybe you realize that it is beyond those acres or in your distant past, back in the realm of TiVo and cubicles, of take-out food and central heat and air, in that country where discomfort has nearly disappeared, that you were deprived. Deprived of the pleasure of desire, of effort and difficulty and meaningful accomplishment.

My Dad was sad that he saw us working so hard on something that was destined to fail.

You don't measure things like that with words like success or failure, he said. Satisfaction comes from trying hard things and then going on to the next hard thing, regardless of the outcome. What mattered was whether or not you were moving in a direction you thought was right.

I feel like we're a very good top-10 car, but we really have to work hard and find a unique way to get these top fives.

Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?

Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?

By the time a critical situation is reached, people are so embedded in the kinds of thinking, values, and behavior that led to the critical point that nothing less than a heroic effort on the part of the population as a whole can sway the course of events.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

Impossible is not a word. It's just a reason for someone not to try.

All that is good and accomplished in this world takes work and a little chaos.

Find your grit and put in the work to elevate your game. Champions train. Chumps complain.

You know, Chuck, You're not always gonna swish. You gonna miss some. Heck, you gonna miss a lot. That's the way the rel world works. But you gotta grab the ball and keep shooting. You understand? I tell you what, though, you'll make a lot more than you miss if you're not always going for the flash and flair.

If you're attacking, you don't get as tired as when you're chasing.

Or if, like her, they immersed themselves in trivialities in a frantic effort to avoid a yawning inner emptiness that sometimes threatened to swallow them whole.

There's no excuse for giving up just because it looks like we're going to lose. We have to try—because the other choice is to surrender.

En ocasiones simplemente haber peleado es importante. Incluso aunque no ganes.

And so you also see how no skill, no matter how lowly, is ever learned in vain.

I weave through all these happy, smiling faces, knowing that we have put on the best show we could—and I do love putting on a good performance, whether sacred or profane. Log

Every difficult task that comes across your path—every one that you would rather not do, that will take the most effort, cause the most pain, and be the greatest struggle—brings a blessing with it.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet, These are not done by jostling in the street.

Never expect to achieve tomorrow what you can get today. Different of the fruits that fall alone, the sky can never be achieved in the same way.

Nothing that's worth anything is ever simple. That's what makes it worth it