A block won’t move without the effort.

Writing fiction is… an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

Always try to maintain complete tolerance and always make an effort to give people more than they expect.

You know, I know I should be just as panicky as you about the filthy work – one wants to do nothing in the evenings, certainly not spread rotten books around & dredge for a ‘line’. It must be like still being a student, with an essay to do after a week’s drinking, only you...

Loving someone can never be difficult, it’s when you judge the other person that everything tumbles.. Loving someone is easy, so I fall, rise or fly in love over and over again.. what’s difficult is being loved in return.. Unrequited love is amusing.. It’s more fun when the person you love doesn’t know you do.....

When I have tried and failed, I shall have failed.

Never give up your right to be wrong, and be sure to give others that right too.

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

When a pebble is thrown into a lake, everything, down to the furthermost depths, moves with it. … And if, afterwards, everything seems as it was, the level of the lake has none the less been raised by imperceptible, incalculable degree. The old order has been overthrown — by a pebble.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

A focused Mind is a result Of a little Effort To tell Your Distractions To sleep for A couple of hours While you are at WORK.

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work.

There are only two kinds of men in this world: Honest men and dishonest men. …Any man who says the world owes him a living is dishonest. The same God that made you and me made this earth. And He planned it so that it would yield every single thing that the people on it...

He is beginning to master wisdom when he tries to learn how not to try.

There’s no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.

You were born and with you endless possibilities, very few ever to be realized. It’s okay. Life was never about what you could do, but what you would do. 

The least effort is the feat most likely to be accomplished.

When it comes to human success, I’m pretty sure the object doesn’t need a net external force to move it.

I have become increasingly used to the Tory party mimicking our policies and phrases in a desperate effort to pretend to their members they are still Eurosceptic.

I’ve been married, divorced; I’ve been the baby momma, the side piece and the secret… all of these things. I share it in an effort to make people better.

Working hard is a fool’s anthem, getting others to work for you is the motto for every successful man.

I don’t know where this pressure came from. I can’t blame my parents because it has always felt internal. Like any other parent, my mother celebrated the A grades and the less-than-A grades she felt there was no need to tell anybody about. But not acknowledging the effort that ended in a less than perfect...

Japanese universities have a chair system that is a fixed hierarchy. This has its merits when trying to work as a laboratory on one theme. But if you want to do original work you must start young, and young people are limited by the chair system. Even if students cannot become assistant professors at an...

In every problem, there’s a concealed solution…locking itself underneath…unlock,peruse,find and solve.

Regardless of the difficulties we may face individually, in our families, in our communities and in our nation, the old adage is still true – you can make excuses or you can make progress, but you cannot make both!

Pause today and notice something you have worked hard on and recognize yourself for it. Acknowledge your effort.

The good life doesn’t knock on the door. Joy is a job.

It takes good effort to begin and a great effort to complete a task.

People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach.

To be alive was to be disappointed. You tried and failed and kept on trying, never knowing whether you’d ever get what you wanted. But sometimes we get what we need.

Value the effort you put forward. Be determined, committed, and involved.

I think one of the geniuses of Bound and The Matrix and Memento is the complete collaboration of the effort. There were no rotten apples.

When you’ve prepared, practiced, studied, and consistently put in the required effort, sooner or later you’ll be presented with your own moment of truth. In that moment, you will define who you are and who you are becoming. It is in those moments where growth and improvement live–when we either step forward or shrink back,...

Maendeleo ya mtu yatatokana na juhudi za mtu mwenyewe.

People choose to read, and it takes effort. It’s not one of those hobbies that asks nothing of the person who is doing it. It’s more than a hobby.

I found out it is just as hard to make a movie that you are not proud of as it is to make one you love.

I don’t want to be polite. I don’t think campaigning is polite. That’s a disingenuous effort.

Trying and getting hurt can’t possibly be worse for you than being… stuck.

We always give our best effort to achieve our goal in any way. It is believed to be happy in that way. Unfortunately, we always pay less attention to the ways of our achievement. We tend to forget that not the goal itself, but the conditions under which we achieve it make us feel happy....

The easiest way to gain someone’s trust is to deserve it. This should be pretty easy, assuming you’re just being you and being real. Minimal effort too.

Yet the human heart is disheartened by the most unreasonable self-judgments, because even when we take on giants, we too often confuse failure with fault, which I know too well. The only way back from such a bleak despondency is to shape humiliation into humility, to strive always to triumph over the darkness while never...

I hesitate in everything, often without knowing why. How often I’ve sought – as my own version of the straight line, seeing it in my mind as the ideal straight line – the longest distance between two points. I’ve never had a knack for the active life. I’ve always taken wrong steps that no one...

humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.

Sit still with me in the shade of these green trees, which have no weightier thought than the withering of their leaves when autumn arrives, or the stretching of their many stiff fingers into the cold sky of the passing winter. Sit still with me and meditate on how useless effort is, how alien the...

INTEREST. Here is the key to the whole thing. If and when you are truly interested in what you are doing, or are about to do, then you will center your attention on it with little or no effort, and almost irrespective of the attendant conditions.

When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe.

Instead of sitting on the sidelines, President Obama has made it clear that the US is ready to lead a global effort to combat climate change.

My methods produce lasting behavioral change without unpleasant consequences, because the change does not come from an effort of will. It comes from examining your deep-rooted beliefs of who you are and how the world functions. As you examine these beliefs and make changes in them, you literally become a different person.

Your sincere and honest effort only,shall lead you to the path of SUCCESS!!! – Adbhut