Quotes about Effort

Thus, some minds for ever keep trimming boat.

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.

I'm super happy to say that it's not that hard to write bad stand-up. I guess the trick is to write bad stand-up that sounds like you're trying to be good.

I have tried so hard to do right.

I just tried to find a fine line between muscling in and staying relaxed.

Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.

There are no shortcuts to true excellence.

Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.

How bad you want something determines what you will do to get it.

If What you re doing now was enough to get what you want, you'd already have it.