1,905 Quotes About Effort

Follow your passion was not the message I heard growing up. Instead, I was told that the practical realities of surviving "in the real world" were far more important than any person living a "sheltered life" such as my own could imagine. I was warned that overly idealistic dreams of "finding something I loved" could in fact be a breadcrumb trail into poverty and disappointment.

This takes time, of course, but sometimes taking time is actually a shortcut.

The effort you direct at finding and developing the person you are is the key to life

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

We can reach the goal but it is going to take an incredible amount of time and effort

Sympathetic joy is a practice. It takes time and effort to free ourselves of the scarcity story that most of us have learned along the way, the idea that happiness is a competition, and that someone else is grabbing all the joy.

No effort is ever wasted.

Much effort is needed for a dream to come true.

One should waste as little effort as possible on improving areas of low competence. It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.