When your actions are motivated by love, you expend least effort and your energy multiplies, allowing you to create anything you want, with a spirit of play and joy. When you seek power and control over others, you waste energy chasing the illusion of happiness.
Any struggle or pain that you experience just gets you to the top, and you can't get there without making the climb. A few years later, you won't remember exactly the way the pain felt or how long it took, you'll just remember the view from the top. In fact, you might smile at the fact you had to work to get there.
I sometimes tell students the only guarantee you've got is the music and no-one can take that away from you. Only you can take that away from you-by not practicing and not putting in enough elbow grease. The more you put into your music, the more your passion for it will grow.
It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.
Leaders are made, they are not born
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.
People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?
When we do the best we can, we never know what miracles await.
If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing poorly first.
If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing twice.
If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well.
The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.
Leaders are not born, they're made.
Travelers, it is late. Life's sun is going to set. During these brief days that you have strength, be quick and spare no effort of your wings
If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
CAN is 100 times more important than IQ
I believe that anyone can become better,if you put in the effort.
It takes a lot of effort to make a building look effortless.
People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.
Our daily objectives should include an honest effort to improve on yesterday.
If you can start with effort then you have a chance.
My earlier award was also based on a close collaborative effort.
Perhaps the central reason that Ahmadinejad's message, and the hundreds of thousands of voices echoing his call throughout the world, are so dangerous is because the Free World is making precious little effort to assert its own message.
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