Quotes About Effort

Nothing can subtract hard work from success, only add to it.

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

There are many problems in life where the solution is largely a brainless time investment

Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it

The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins

Life is the game that must be played

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Here on Earth, we live once and die once. So, whatever you're doing, do it like you're only gonna do it once.

Try and fail, but don't fail to try. Whether it's the best of times or worst of times it's the only time we've got!

Time spent wishing is time wasted

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.