159 quotes found
“You can’t “make” someone your soul mate. You can try but it will always be very hard work. Human relationships are hard even when they are easy, so it’s important to be in one with a soul mate. She...”
“I'm bred for farm work, and for such folk, the only A's you get come from effort. Strife and strain are all the world can offer, and they temper you into something unbreakable because Lord knows th...”
“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 "shelt...”
“Each morning the light came through the slats of the shutters in ripples, and as it washed towards the inhabitants of the Casa Luna it smoothed away memories of the past, It was for this that they ...”
“Mistakes help to sharpen your next steps. They don’t prove that you shouldn’t try again.”
“Personal growth doesn’t occur without effort. The effort is one of recognizing your own power, and taking ownership and responsibility for your own development.”
“Failure I can live with. Not trying is what I can’t handle.”
“Life can be a misunderstanding, if we are ignorant of the right language or don’t try to learn it. « If lions could speak, we would not understand them. » says Ludwig Wittgenstein. If we make an ef...”
“There is no greater path than the act of listening.”
“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”
“The same thing that makes friendship so valuable is what makes it so tenuous: it is purely voluntary. You enter into it freely, without the imperatives of biology or the agenda of desire. Officiall...”
“Gift ain't what you take by effort, as swag ain't what you worthy have.”
“The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and inversely proportional to the effort it takes to see them.”
“Your sincere and honest effort only,shall lead you to the path of SUCCESS!!! - Adbhut”
“But first you have to fight, to try other ways. If your life displeases you, my lad, try to change it. Don't give in to defeat so easily. Death is the only sure defeat. It is the end of everything.”
“Sheer effort enables those with nothing to surpass those with privilege and position.”
“Just because someone can do something with little or no training, it doesn’t mean that others can’t do it (and sometimes do it even better) with training.”
“There's no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.”
“Walls don't fall without effort.”