There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards. —Livy More about this quote Tags: chance effort reward Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Relationships take work. Hours and days and years of getting close to that person. That's real love, real intimacy. —Karen Kingsbury in A Time to Embrace More about this quote Tags: love relationships work effort intimacy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say. —Michael Winner More about this quote Tags: effort control team Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The fifteen-year-old daughter of a friend once addressed the old Carl Jung as follows: "Herr Professor, you are so clever. Could you please tell me the shortest path to my life's goal?" Without a moment's hesitation Jung replied, "The detour! —Richard Kehl More about this quote Tags: effort goals detour Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Our lives don't really belong to us, you see — they belong to the world, and in spite of our efforts to make sense of it, the world is a place beyond our understanding. —Paul Auster More about this quote Tags: understanding life ownership effort Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. —Charles Simic More about this quote Tags: self effort self-work Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice. —Leo Tolstoy More about this quote Tags: philosophy writing effort practice Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. —Will Rogers More about this quote Tags: action doing effort Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Fall seven times. Stand up eight. —Japanese proverb More about this quote Tags: effort resilience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
He who limps is still walking. —Stanislaw J. Lec More about this quote Tags: progress effort walking earnestness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort. —Robert Quillen More about this quote Tags: purpose difficulty art effort Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways. —Samuel McChord Crothers More about this quote Tags: perfection imperfection failure labor work effort trying Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my best each and every day. —Abraham Lincoln More about this quote Tags: effort doing your best Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King Jr. or Mahatma Gandhi to come back, but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you. —Marian Wright Edelman More about this quote Tags: action change effort greatness waiting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are no easy methods of learning difficult things; the method is to close your door, give out that you are not at home, and work. —Joseph de Maistre More about this quote Tags: easy learning work effort Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email