Quotes About Effort

Take on difficulties while they are still easy; do great things while they are still small.

There may, however, be occasions when you will fail in some given task according to your own standards. The important thing here is not to equate the act with your own self-worth. Not to succeed in a particular endeavor is not to fail as a person. It is simply not being successful with that particular trial at that particular present moment.

things that are forced grow for a while, but then wither away.

This is true for every aspect of your life: The more you push against it, the more resistance you create.

Attempting to do something, even if it doesn't succeed, is inspiring because we don't tend to regret what we do, we regret what we didn't do. Even following a futile attempt, we're inspired because we know that we gave it a shot. It's wondering whether we should or shouldn't try something that leaves us feeling stressed and incomplete.

Living by Being I encourage you to change your belief that effort and striving are necessary tools for success. In verse 47, Lao-tzu suggests that these are ways of being that keep you from experiencing the harmony and attaining the completion that's offered by the Tao. Living by being instead of trying is a different viewpoint; as Lao-tzu states, you can see and accomplish more by not looking out the window.

Wayne W. Dyer

que tu conducta esté de acuerdo con el amor y la armonía, no tomes apego en modo alguno a los frutos de tu trabajo

Putting it off as a way of life is one technique that you can use to avoid doing. 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 is easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk and change.

learned what sweating bullets means.

Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it.

No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him.

No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.

No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.

If you've got a business—you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen. —Barack Obama, Roanoke, Va., July 13, 2012

Indeed, any effort is usually in denying our awareness and expression of it.

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.

For one brief moment victory was within our grasp!" "And then the game started!

The early bird gets the worm but the late bird doesn't even get the late worm.

Winning isn't everything, but losing isn't anything.

I've tried to be a better person... I've tried, and tried and tried! You know how hard I've tried! Tell me how I've tried..." "Nice try... Five cents, please!

The man who has done his best has done everything.

No matter how hard you try, You can't build a rainman.