Quotes About Effort

We need only drop the effort to secure and solidify ourselves and the awakened state is present. But we soon realize that just "letting go" is only possible for short periods. We need some discipline to bring us to "letting be." We must walk a spiritual path. Ego must wear itself out like an old shoe, journeying from suffering to liberation.

2. Not overcoming laziness and so forth

Seeds must be sown everywhere. Only some will bear fruit. But there would not be the fruit from the few had the many not been sown.

But it would have made me a whore to leave it incomplete. It would have made it easier to leave future work incomplete. It would have made it more and more difficult to draw upon that additional aching surge of effort that is always the difference between integrity and deceit in a created work. I would not be the whore to my own existence. Can you understand that? I would not be the whore to my own existence.

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

And why urge people to make an effort in this or that direction if everything, including the effort or its absence, is determined?

The grass may be greener on the other side, but either way…you've got to mow it.

The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted.

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. As it turns out, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Evil happens without effort, naturally, inevitably; good is always the product of skill.

One must work, if not from taste then at least from despair. For, to reduce everything to a single truth: work is less boring than pleasure.

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate good is always the product of an art.

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

You can not figure out love without figuring out death, too, but the effort it takes can knock the wind out of you. Love is the first cousin of death, they're acquainted with each other, they go to the same family reunions.

Ms. Casey is standing in front of the class explaining how she worked all weekend to get the tests graded so she could hand them back on Monday morning, and you're wondering if you're supposed to be impressed that she did her job.

I don't know what to make of myself. A lot of the time, despite my deepest hungers and best efforts, I see blackness. But I am planting a young oak tree. I really am. It'll be here centuries after I'm gone. Assuming I choose to leave.

No one knows the powers that are latent in his constitution. Called forth by imminent dangers, our efforts frequently exceed our most sanguine belief.

My ambition is handicapped by laziness

During my incarceration Mother visited me. She had in some way managed to leave the workhouse and was making an effort to establish a home for us. Her presence was like a bouquet of flowers; she looked so fresh and lovely that I felt ashamed of my unkempt appearance and my shaved iodined head. 'You must excuse his dirty face,' said the nurse. Mother laughed, and how well I remember her endearing words as she hugged and kissed me: 'With all thy dirt I love thee still.

There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.

Keeping skills up to date requires the investment of time, effort, and perhaps even money for tuition. But it's worth it for an extra decade of productive activity.

Riding is, therefore, an ongoing, never-ending, challenging process. That aspect makes riding so intelligent and significant an effort. One merely strives, never arrives.

a seed and a glove, symbol of his action and his work. (une graine et un gant, symbole de son action et son travail.)"