Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

Never think of any right effort as being fruitless. All right effort bears fruit, whether we see the results or not.

I think going to college for that one year was probable the best thing I have ever done.

Life ain't about just 'Chillin' It.' I've learned that.

For me personally, the way I've been trained, just through life experience - the harder something is, the harder you have to work for it, the more worthwhile it is, and you just have to know that going in.

Sometimes what we think is a disappointment, is really God getting us in position to go to a new level.

Work hard, do things the right way, and things will go your way.

I think the older I've gotten the more, like most people, my appreciation shifts towards things that are very difficult, where you see people who have put in tremendous hours and hours of commitment.

That is how I came to think that heavy and hard was the beginning of living, real living; and though I might not end up with a mark on my cheek, I had no doubt that I would end up with a mark somewhere.

I think she's going to be better and better if she works hard.

I think it comes easy to work hard. I was always taught, don't short-change yourself. Keep working to get better.

I think most people can do a whole lot more if they just try.

I think it's important for people to know that it's okay to feel like you're not better as long as you keep trying.

I always think I'm lazy, maybe I could do better, I could make more effort and I always have the feeling that there is a glass wall that I cannot get through. But maybe when I get through, then it's over.

No matter how successful you become you gotta keep grindin' and be a good person and then good things will come to you.

All my life I've been surrounded by people who are smarter than I am, but I found I could always keep up by working hard.

Somebody told me that if you wake up every day and do stuff that's easy, then you're doing the wrong thing. If you wake up every day and do stuff that's really hard and you manage to get through to people, then you're doing the right thing. They might have just fooled me by telling me that, but it worked. I think that's my philosophy.

The truth is, everything that has happened in my life... that I thought was a crushing event at the time, has turned out for the better.

Life is like sex. It’s not always good, but its always worth trying.

What is failure? We can’t possibly know what failure is. Most people think they do, but that’s because they’re judging how their lives should be and what they need it to be: a success. Who is to say what’s a success and what’s a failure? Do your best. Trust. Relax. Do your best. Enjoy yourself.

I think my older sister was probably more clever, but I worked very hard.

Moving. Someone said this to me a long time ago, it's bhuddist saying, I think: 'There is no wasted effort'.

I think success is a lot more healthy than failure.

Recovery isn’t easy, at first. It takes time. It takes more work, sometimes, than you think you’re willing to do. But it is worth every hard day, every tear, every terrified moment. It’s worth it, because the trade-off is this: you let go of your eating disorder, and you get back your life.

I think we are all the sum of that which has happened in our lives. And if you're successful, it would be wrong to think that you'd be more successful had something been easier. That's not a given.

If you reflect on your life, you may recall times when you couldn't see the value of some person and were tempted to brush him or her off. It takes hindsight to recognize that the very situation you may have seen as an irritating bother turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Wouldn't life be a much more enjoyable and meaningful experience if we decided to look at the difficult people and irritating situations as blessings in disguise? If we look deeply enough, we might see how these experiences as situations that motivate us to grow and change for the better.