Quotes About Effort

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.

We can live as we were meant to live - simply, joyously, of and on the earth. We can live with all our effort and with pure happiness.

Here below is not the land of happiness: I know it now; it is only the land of toil, and every joy which comes to us is only to strengthen us for some greater labor that is to succeed.

Happiness is not at the top of the mountain, but in how to climb.

Bad teaching wastes a great deal of effort, and spoils many lives which might have been full of energy and happiness.

The future is not a gift-it is an achievement.

I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

All happiness depends on courage and work.

The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.

It is said that the compensation for the effort courage, tenacity, and endurance displayed during the journey was not happiness. Nor glory. What God offered as a reward was only rest.

We take less pains to be happy, than to appear so.

Happiness lies not in happiness but only in the attempt to achieve it.

Effort is not a means to lead us to happiness. Effort itself is happiness

The power of hope upon human exertion, and happiness, is wonderful.

Fun comes hard - like, alas, its prarens, pleasure and happiness, whom we have to pursue.

Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.

The most fundamental law of tragedy is that the moments of greatest happiness are the hardest to attain.

There was more happiness in the process, in the build, in the preparation. The winning was almost phoned in.

It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.

There is no happiness that isn't earned

Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.

True happiness comes when you give your best in something beyond yourself.