Quotes About Effort

I will consider each day's effort as but one blow of my blade against a mighty oak.

to have goals without a plan and a time limit was as useless as having no goals at all.

All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemingly barren and negligible effort, lasting only for a few moments in the life of the galaxy. When it was over, the host of the planetary systems still lived on, with here and there a casualty, and here and there among the stars a new planetary birth, and here and there a fresh disaster.

Homo sapiens is a spider trying to crawl out of a basin. The higher he crawls, the steeper the hill. Sooner or later, down he goes. So long as he's on the bottom, he can get along quite nicely, but as soon as he starts climbing, he begins to slip. And the higher he climbs the farther he falls. It doesn't matter which direction he tries. He can make civilization after civilization, but every time, long before he begins to be really civilized, skid!

Aquí no toman afecto a los extraños como no se lo tomes tú primero a ellos, y a mí nunca me convino el esfuerzo.

Non ci sono segreti per riuscire. Solo il talento e il lavoro. E cuore...

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the mext moment

The big secret in life is there is no secret. Whatever your goal. You can get there if you're willing to work.

Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.

Wenn du Erfolg haben willst, bringe Höchstleistungen. Wenn du das Beste willst, was dir die Welt zu bieten hat, dann biete ihr das Beste von dir.

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

The knowledge that she could learn to love a man had always meant more to her than loving him effortlessly, more even than falling in love, and that was why she now felt that she was on the threshold of a new life, a happiness bound to endure for a very long time.

Mevlut used to toil on foot through mud and rain, up and down these very same streets, and now here they were slipping right through with ease. Life, too, slipped by in much the same way, speeding up as it ran along the tracks laid out by time and fortune.

Laziness begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains.

I've never found any elevators in life; I've had to climb to every place worth reaching. And now I think it over, I wish it so with everybody, for then no one would rise any higher than he deserves to go. I

It is, says Professor Mathews, only by continued, strenuous efforts, repeated again and again, day after day, week after week, and month after month, that the ability can be acquired to fasten the mind to one subject, however abstract or knotty, to the exclusion of everything else.

That disables a lot of people from achieving goals, it is simply, a lack of willingness to pay for these goals, a lack of willingness to make great effort, a lack of willingness to sacrifice their comfort for those goals.

Aim at perfection in everything?, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. — Chesterfield.

We don't necessarily get what we work for; it is what we expect that comes to us.

No matter how strongly and perfectly constructed, or how powerful a locomotive may be, unless the water is heated to 212 degrees, the train will not move an inch. Warm water, water even at the boiling point, will not answer.

Fortune always smiles on those who roll up their sleeves and put their shoulders to the wheel.

Learn to labor and to wait. —Longfellow.

Remember that it is only through your work that you can grow to your full height.

You could be on the other side of the door which you think is barred against you. It will open wide when you are ready to enter; that is, when you have paid the price of admission. No one can give you a free pass, and admission tickets are not transferable. You must pay the price yourself or stay outside. The price is self-effort.