Effort Quotes - Page 49

If your practice is good, you may become proud of it. What you do is good, but something more is added to it. Pride is extra. Right effort is to get rid of something extra.

When you accept everything, everything is beyond dimensions. The earth is not great nor a grain of sand small. In the realm of Great Activity picking up a grain of sand is the same as taking up the whole universe. To save one sentient being is to save all sentient beings. Your efforts of this moment to save one person is the same as the eternal merit of Buddha.

I never went to the gym before in my life. But, at 32, I notice that my body responds negatively to bad food, so I must make double the effort.

What I am most proud of is the legacy of hope that FIFA and football leaves around the world. It makes all of the efforts and energy I pour into this job worth it.

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

Only that which is got by hard effort will yield lasting benefit.

Nothing of real worth can be obtained without courageous working. Man owes his growth chiefly to the active striving of the will, that encounter with difficulty which he calls effort; and it is astonishing to find how often results apparently impracticable are then made possible.

We are not born focusing. It's an acquired skill that requires initial effort and constant upgrading.

Our efforts to help the poor does not mean we're going to eradicate poverty.

Almost everyone does just enough to get by. Those who achieve spectacular success also do enough to get by; then they add a little bit of extra effort. That little bit of extra effort makes an enormous difference.

I teach you both effort and effortlessness, because unless you attain to effortless-effort, unless you attain to active passivity, unless you attain to a singing-silence - they look paradoxical - unless you attain to an unmoving dance, you have not attained.

That quality is what makes women great collaborators; we understand it's a team effort. Even if it comes from society telling us to be polite.

Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.

We can proceed according to the planned itinerary, strenuously trying to make life conform to our needs, or we can adapt to whatever we meet and flow without effort.

You have certainly observed the curious fact that a given word which is perfectly clear when you hear it or use it in everyday language, and which does not give rise to any difficulty when it is engaged in the rapid movement of an ordinary sentence becomes magically embarrassing, introduces a strange resistance, frustrates any effort at definition as soon as you take it out of circulation to examine it separately and look for its meaning after taking away its instantaneous function.

Life is such an effort, Child. It's a war that is renewed each day, and its moments of joy are brief parentheses for which you pay a cruel price.

One of the eternal conflicts out of which life is made up is that between the effort of every man to get the most he can for his services, and that of society, disguised under the name of capital, to get his services for the least possible return.

The noblest service comes from nameless hands; and the best servant does his work unseen.

The effort to try to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable.

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside.

The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.

I think talent is like a water table under the earth—you tap it with your effort and it comes through you.

The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe.

Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars.

All my writing has been an effort to sort out the paradoxes of my life.