Quotes About Effort

By thought, the thing you want is brought to you; by action you receive it. Whatever

You orchestrate happiness, Dolores - you work at it. You don't catch it as it hurls toward you like a football

Like water, we mostly follow the path of least resistance.

busting his agates

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle.

to great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives.

Hard work by itself isn't worth two cents on a rainy day if it doesn't give you a good life.

when we feel powerless, we stop trying to find a better way.

It takes a lot of hard work," he said, "to make something simple

I want to make this a revolution, not an effort to squeeze out profits.

Okay, it's not easy, but that's why we're no Einstein and he was.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication," Jobs had aimed for the simplicity that comes from conquering complexities, not ignoring them. "It takes a lot of hard work," he said, "to make something simple, to truly understand the underlying challenges and come up with elegant solutions.

We have squandered a lot of time on this, and the result looks like a gift from the devil's grandmother.

Diligence is the mother of good luck 

But what is propaganda, if not the effort to alter the picture to which men respond, to substitute one social pattern for another?

Mediocrity is self-inflicted and genius is self-bestowed.

Here he produced two immense folded packets, which appeared each to contain a whole ream of closely written manuscript. They had been the labour of the worthy man's whole life; and never were labour and zeal more absurdly wasted.

IT TOOK a conscious effort for Tallow to keep his hand off his gun as he walked up the apartment building's stairs. There was no threat here. He told himself that with every step. But every step held memory.

Whatever is manufactured outwardly by our own effort is not real and is doomed to frustration and defeat.

It's never crowded along the extra mile

A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change.

It's never crowded along the extra mile.

If your life is better, it is because you have done something constructive to make it better.

It is easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk and change.