Quotes About Effort

Victory and defeat are each of the same price.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

You know what they say. If at first you don't succeed, try the same thing again. Sometimes the effort is called persistence and is the mark of a strong will. Sometimes it's called perseveration and is a sign of immaturity. For an individual, one of the definitions of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again in the same way and expecting different results. For a government, such behavior is called... policy.

I'm trying to feel as good as I can.

So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.

Shoddiness is) the nature of human life. It takes an exertion to be indifferent to these things, but it's an exertion worth making. Also, it allows you luxuries like scorn and flippancy.

Everything in life worth achieving requires practice. In fact, life itself is nothing more than one long practice session, an endless effort of refining our motions. When the proper mechanics of practice are understood, the task of learning something new becomes a stress-free experience of joy and calmness, a process which settles all areas in your life and promotes proper perspective on all of life's difficulties.

You are going to find that buying the car is much less satisfying than working for it.

creating the practicing mind comes down to a few simple rules: • Keep yourself process-oriented. • Stay in the present. • Make the process the goal and use the overall goal as a rudder to steer your efforts. • Be deliberate, have an intention about what you want to accomplish, and remain aware of that intention.

Progress is a natural result of staying focused on the process of doing anything. When you stay on purpose, focused in the present moment, the goal comes toward you with frictionless ease.

Getting the goal and achieving it are worlds apart.

he'd paid for should have led me to greater abstraction, but while it's true that the farther you get from an actual product the better your chances for economic success, I and many of my classmates wanted more physical evidence of our efforts.

Better the day, better the deed.

Unhappy me," quoth she, "and will't not stand? Come, let me rub and chafe it with my hand. Perhaps the silly worm is laboured sore And wearièd that it can do no more.

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem lightly.

Toho, co snadno získáme, si pÃ…â"¢íliÅ¡ nevážíme. Pouze to, o co musíme usilovat, má skute?nou hodnotu.

That which we obtain too easily we esteem too lightly.

Very often it happens that one starts in to study some problem, and after gathering a mass of facts pertaining to it, the attempt is made to set them in order, and the conscious effort ends in confusion and disorder. Then the conscious effort is abandoned, and the unconscious which has been at work all the time has a chance to project up into consciousness a perfect plan or outline of the subject.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Our revolution is not a public-speaking tournament. Our revolution is not a battle of fine phrases. Our revolution is not simply for spouting slogans that are no more than signals used by manipulators trying to use them as catchwords, as codewords, as a foil for their own display. Our revolution is, and should continue to be, the collective effort of revolutionaries to transform reality, to improve the concrete situation of the masses of our country.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Success depends on our using, and not opposing...

The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.