Effort Quote by Virginia Woolf

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

— Virginia Woolf

The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it,…

— Marcel Proust

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

— George Saunders

With each passing moment we lose it and still in mastication of the past we drain energy and waste time.

— Senoraroy

The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills…

— Marcel Proust

“Breaking deeply imbedded habitual tendencies such as procrastination, impatience, criticalness, or selfishness that violate basic principles of human effectiveness involves more than a little…

— Stephen R. Covey

“When we stop pushing against life and lean into what is, we become more aware and focused.”

— Shannon Kaiser

Life is like a Bicycle. The moment you stop pedaling, you start losing momentum. If you coast for too long, You fall Resolve to…

— Pacifiersucker

We are used to the actions of human beings, not to their stillness.

— V. S. Pritchett

“They say that, if we manage to live without too great an effort, it is entirely owing to the automatism which makes us unconscious…

— Alberto Moravia

“Do we not wile away moments of inanity or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sound, until the repetition has bred a…

— George Eliot

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting…

— Charles Baudelaire