Quotes About Effort

In general, we want to take the easy way out, but what makes us happy is doing the thing that's a little bit difficult.

I più trascorrono la maggior parte del tempo lavorando per vivere, e quel po' di libertà che rimane loro li spaventa a tal punto che ricorrono a ogni mezzo per liberarsene. Oh destino degli uomini!

Il malumore e la pigrizia sono in tutto simili, perché il malumore è una specie di pigrizia. A questa siamo portati per natura, e tuttavia se troviamo la forza per reagire ecco che il lavoro diviene agevole e l'attività un vero piacere.

It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. It is not enough to have wishes, one must also accomplish

Of freedom and of life he only is deservingWho every day must conquer them anew.

Who strives always to the utmost,For him there is salvation.

Man errs as long as he strives.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

The deed is everything, the glory naught.

If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.

Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.

There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few priveledged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly achieve in an age.

Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.

What matters creative endless toil, When, at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil?

Man errs, till he has ceased to strive.

Man is too prone, at best, to seek the way that's easy, He soon grows fond of unconditioned rest;

All our most honest toil succeeds only in unconscious moments. For how would the rose blossom if it were aware of the splendor of the sun!

Was soll uns denn das ew'ge Schaffen Geschaffenes zu nichts hinwegzuraffen!

Unqualified activity, of whatever kind, leads at last to bankruptcy.

Work like hell, tell everyone everything you know, close a deal with a handshake, and have fun.

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.

Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot.