Effort Quotes to Inspire You to Achieve Your Goals - page 170

When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.
When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.
 Queen Elizabeth II
Every noble achievement is a dream before it is a reality just as the oak is an acorn before it is a tree.
 Patience Strong
Inspiration is one thing and you can't control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work.
 Kevin Eubanks
He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a finished cathedral is already defeated.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it.
I spend most of my time in my head. You can always work out solutions and satisfactions there. Maybe you can't actually bring them about, but there's usually a pleasant pillow of time between imagining you can, and realizing you cannot.
 Sheila Heti
Responsibilites and expectations are the basis of guilt and shame and judgement, and they provide the essential framework that promotes performance as the basis for identity and value.
 William P. Young
It's an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously.
 Bill Bryson
No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism.
The real question is how do you stay funny in your 70s and 80s? And that\'s a real accomplishment, you know, the longevity.
The real question is how do you stay funny in your 70s and 80s? And that's a real accomplishment, you know, the longevity.
 Jeff Ross
Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.
Anyone who has ever been able to sustain good work has had at least one person--and often many--who have believed in him or her. We just don't get to be competent human beings without a lot of different investments from others.
 Fred Rogers
But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people's entry into the main current of world-events.
 Muhammad Iqbal
Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.
 Ken Robinson
I got my first lifetime achievement award years ago, and I was very excited, but then I got a sense of: Well, can one get a second lifetime award?
 Michael Palin
I enjoy hard work, I love setting goals and achieving them.
Maybe that's why there's an insecurity sometimes in acting, because it's not like there's a correlation between hard work and how people receive you.
 Owen Wilson
Work as smart as you are able.
 Mary Anne Radmacher
There is very little doubt, in my mind, that what the next monumental achievement of humanity will be the first landing by an Earthling, a human being, on the planet Mars.
There is very little doubt, in my mind, that what the next monumental achievement of humanity will be the first landing by an Earthling, a human being, on the planet Mars.
 Buzz Aldrin
Your level of achievement will rise to meet the level of your purpose.
 Ralph Marston