Best 3649 quotes in «effort quotes» category

Any effort made in the present is like an investment in the future.

Any situation with effort can be morphed to adhere to or represent personal desires.

aphorism 129: I would have every thought stoop and touch the Earth but that I already know the impossibility of the effort. A thought seems to have a life of its own and would rather leave itself open to flattering interpretations.

As chief, I will represent my people in many different ways and might never know which particular action is destined to matter more than another, thus, all my actions should be considered potentially important and worthy of my best effort.

A scientist's accomplishments are equal to the integral of his ability integrated over the hours of his effort.

As Henry Moore carved or modelled his sculpture every day, he strove to surpass Donatello 4. and failed, but woke the next morning elated for another try.

Athletes train 15 years for 15 seconds of performance. Ask them if they got lucky. Ask an athlete how he feels after a good workout. He will tell you that he feels spent. If he doesn't feel that way, it means he hasn't worked out to his maximum ability. Losers think life is unfair. They think only of their bad breaks. They don't consider that the person who is prepared and playing well still got the same bad breaks but overcame them. That is the difference. His threshold for tolerating pain becomes higher because in the end he is not training so much for the game but for his character. Alexander Graham Bell was desperately trying to invent a hearing aid for his partially deaf wife. He failed at inventing a hearing aid but in the process discovered the principles of the telephone. You wouldn't call someone like that lucky, would you?Good luck is when opportunity meets preparation. Without effort and preparation, lucky coincidences don't happen.

A sound idea is a form of energy. It can not be destroyed. It evolves from inspiration, to a function of preparation, then determination - till the ideator's dream becomes actualized in real life At the very least, success is a second iteration of the original, unscripted Idea So your idea refinement process needs to be test-driven Test Determine on time if investment in terms of effort and time is worth it Work Smart Fail early, fail often, Success lies on the paths yet to be treaded, Open your mind, Think Disruption, Be Flexible Be AGILE I think this is an idea worth sharing

At the end of your life you want to arrive at a well-designed destination rather than an unexpected destination, and you do this by setting life goals, not short-term, not medium, not long-term, but life goals.

A well-constituted human being, a ‘happy one’, must perform certain actions and instinctively shrinks from other actions, he transports the order of which he is the physiological representative into his relations with other human beings and with things. In a formula: his virtue is the consequence of his happiness…Everything good is instinct—and consequently easy, necessary, free. Effort is an objection.

A willing spirit, a determined effort.

Become a river and then nothing is needed. That’s what The Secret of the Golden Flower says: Achieve inaction through action, achieve effortlessness through effort. But first comes the effort, the action—it will melt you—and then the river starts flowing. In that very flow it has reached the ocean.

Before a dream can mature and manifest itself as real, a lot of loaded efforts come into play! You are the pivot on which those loads must be turned!

Before you speak... I have already heard. Before you see... I had seen a million times. Before you reach... I came and departed, so is the way and life of a versatile soul.

Believe me “it can’t be done” is an individual statement, it’s not the fact, but most of the time not only we believe it, we try to influence our beliefs on others, very often to make it a general statement we never try enough to prove our point.

Be specific about what you want. Decide, define, describe, discuss and develop your plans and then act on them.

Beyond the clumsy, brute force tools of will, determination and hard work — and free from the heavy attachment of want, and the illusions of burden and blocks, is the true technology of creation through beingness.

Big dreams only come true when you believe and have the courage to pursue them.

Change takes time. But, it also takes people.

Christ invites us to assume the yoke, but we would rather ride in the cart. That is one reason why some find comfort in hero worship. It represents a release from the burden of responsibility (Teryl Givens, The Crucible of Doubt, 62).

Circumstances, events or situations do not have inherent meanings except what you give them

Commit to the lifestyle of investing in you first. It always produces the best return.

Courage isn’t instinctive or genetic; it has to be learned and practiced. Why not start today?

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that your dreams, desires or goals are more important than fear.

Courage is important but it shouldn’t be used in making impulsive decisions or taking uncalculated actions.

Courage is the ability to make yourself take action in spite of your fear.

Define success by your terms, not by other people’s standards.

‎Determination, effort, and practice are rewarded with success.

Denial couldn't be maintained.

Discipline is more about self-control through your inner strength and less about restriction.

Divert your efforts in discovering why certain things are out of reach, you must question yourselves before others does, most of the times your skills are not the reason it’s your attitude which makes you come across as less skilled.

Don’t ask what it will cost or how much of your time you will have to sacrifice. Instead, ask what it’s worth.

Don't expect others to hand success to you. Create it - with heart, energy and enterprise - and you'll make it come true

Don't pour a lifetime of effort into a seasonal relationship. Not everyone from the pilot belongs in the finale.

Don't think you can act perfectly. A perfect person doesn't exist. Always strive to give your best effort, and that's it.

Don’t try, be happy.

Dreams in your life are like light bulbs that brighten your room. But having them on the ceiling is just not enough; you got to make an effort by pressing on the switch and there it goes taking away the darkness!

Dreams are whispers of our ambitions, which guide us in the right direction and our actions are the means of transportation to achieve them.

Effort is the foundation of all achievements and is the single greatest competitive advantage and quality you must consistently apply to achieve your dreams.

Effort is energy.

Effort related to results are always in balance.

Endless stairs require endless effort!

Even though the suitcase was heavy I carried it by the handle as I walked into the departure hall. I detested the tiny wheels, first of all because they were feminine, thus not worthy of a man, a man should carry, not roll, secondly because they suggested easy options, shortcuts, savings, rationality, which I despised and opposed wherever I could, even where it was of the most trivial significance. Why should you live in a world without feeling its weight? Were we just images? And what were we actually saving energy for with these energy-saving devices?

Find something about yourself to laugh about every day.

Focus on whether you are fulfilling your own potential than comparing yourself to someone else. The fact that you have a natural limit to any specific ability has nothing too do with whether you are reaching the ceiling of your capabilities. People get so caught up in the fact that they have limits that they rarely exert the effort required to get close to them. Genes can not make you successful if you’re not doing the work. Until you work as hard as those you admire, don’t explain away their success as luck.

For a while there's nothing I can do but stand in the middle of the road, because going forward hurts too much. Going forward means continuing to try, when trying is so hard. The world is filled with idiots and assholes and monsters. Where are the guardian angels?

Gather all your effort to achieve a single goal and you will be bound to succeed

Genetics doesn’t ensure love, or even like, time and effort do. You don’t give them your time, and you don’t show them effort

Gift ain't what you take by effort, as swag ain't what you worthy have.

Goals are the result of bringing your dreams, ideas, and ideals into a real and examinable form by giving them permanence in written form.