Quotes About Effort

The fascination of what's difficult has dried the sap out of my veins and rent spontaneous joy and natural content out of my heart.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent

You never know what you can do till you try.

The life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

For the arrow of fate cannot be parried by the shield of effort once God's decree has already passed another way.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective you may have in mind--not all of a sudden, perhaps not in one swift and sweeping act of achievement--but you can do it gradually, day by day and play by play, if you want to do it, if you work to do it, over a sufficiently long period of time.

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.

Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills.It is not the effort nor the failure tires.The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.

I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.

Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.

People who tried to start at an advanced age, meaning over fourteen, had, in my experience, almost no chance of becoming proficient, and usually suffered pain and sorrow before they quit.

Magicians are not made, they make themselves.

All the athletic exercises in the world are no power to the individual unless he compel those bars and dumbbells to yield to him and strengthen muscle; the power for which he himself pays in effort.

We envy the success of others, when we should emulate the process by which that success came.

As we brew, we must bake

Something for nothing is not to be found on earth.

When the people whose claims we are considering are told to apply themselves to these tasks they become irritated and feel almost insulted. They

I compensate for the lack of intellect with more discipline and steadiness and persistence.

He that thinks he works for a song, as we say, will not sing at his work