Quotes About Effort

Sloth is not cured with sleep, nor laziness with idleness.

The true doctor studies harder than the freshman, because, as he knows more of learning, so by that knowledge he un derstands his own deficiency better; for the higher he ascends the hill of learning, the more his prospect en largeth, while the other, standing at the bottom, thinks he knows all in his little.

They use faith as an eye but not as a hand; they look for victory to drop from heaven upon their heads, but do not fight to obtain it.

so to make a good Christian, there is required a conscientious care to use all appointed means.

work was his restorative.

The line of least resistance makes crooked rivers and crooked men. Each fish that battles upstream is worth ten that loaf in lazy bays.

She crowds each moment with endeavor.

Excellence is inconveniently difficult.

There's only one growth strategy: work hard.

Whatever necessities you require, work to get them. If you fail to get something, then smile and try again in a different way. If you succeed, then enjoy what you get, but without attachment.

Repose is necessary to great efforts, and he who is never idle, labours in vain!

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that to-day is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.

I already gave my best. I have no regrets at all.

Tis a lesson you should heed, Try, try again; If at first you don't succeed, Try, try again; Then your courage should appear, For, if you will persevere, You will conquer, never fear; Try, try again.

Dieting and investing are both simple, but neither is easy.

90 percent of the people in the stock market, professionals and amateurs alike, simply haven't done enough homework.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

Anyone who is good at something makes it look easy. That does not mean it is.

People only will make an effort to save something they care about, and to care about it, they have to know about it.