Quotes About Effort

he wins the prize who pays the price.

success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed : pay the price and it is yours.

Many a man would have been a success had ne connected his fragmentary efforts. Spasmodic, disconnected attempts, without concentration, uncontrolled by any fixed idea, will never bring success. It is continuity of purpose alone that achieves results.

He who would do some great thing in this short life must apply himself to the work with such a concentration of his forces as, to idle spectators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity.

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, and then happiness as we can manage it.... Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your work, but your work is first, learning first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

It is painful to fail. But it is far sadder when a storyteller stops wanting to try.

Saving the human race is a frantic one. Or a tedious one. It all depends on what stage of the process you're taking part in.

I suppose this means you can swim after all. Or am I supposed to tow you? If you really try, said Loaf, grinning, you might not die.

People are never fair, even when they try to be...and few are the ones who try.

Like running the hurdles. Work so hard, jump over every one, fast, high enough but no higher, because you can't afford to hang in the air. And then, when the race is over, you're dripping with sweat, either they beat you or you beat them ... and then a couple of guys come out and move the hurdles out of the way. Turns out they were nothing. All that work to jump over them, but now they're gone.

Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your work, but your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.

Everything everybody does is a waste of time, until it isn't

I'll tell you something. If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon

I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.

The perfection is not so much in the performance as in the journey towards it. This is the joy. You must burn!

Son las virtudes algo lejano? En cuanto quiero ser virtuoso, inmediatamente estoy alcanzando la virtud

The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up...

The Master said, The case is like that of someone raising a mound. If he stops working, the fact that it perhaps needed only one more basketful makes no difference; I stay where I am. Whereas even if he has not got beyond leveling the ground, but is still at work, the fact that he has only tilted one basketful of earth makes no difference. I go to help him.

Success depends upon previous preparation.