Quotes About Effort

We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.

The purpose of the first draft is not to get it right, but to get it written.

Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is

even if I do not see the fruits, the struggle has been worthwhile. If my life has taught me anything, it is that one must fight.

Don't think you can relax yourself to happiness. Happiness comes as a result of doing.

You don't get nothing for nothing in this life.

In my mind nothing is more abhorrent than a life of ease. None of us has any right to ease. There is no place in civilization for the idler.

I'm not perfect, but if there are any points given for caring about people with every fiber of your being and giving life all you've got every day, then I suppose I have a shot.

I worked for a menial's hire, Only to learn, dismayed, That any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have paid.

Mere physical growing up, mere mastery of the bare necessities of subsistence will not suffice to reproduce the life of the group. Deliberate effort and the taking of thoughtful pains are required.

Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.

Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of the sweat of their brows or the blood of their hearts.

The gifts we are given in life require the best of us, not merely our best intentions.

Perhaps nothing was ever "meant to be." There was just life, and right now, and doing your best. Being a bit "bendy.

If you're not spending 80 percent of your time marketing and selling, you are headed for trouble.

You can only become great at something you are willing to sacrifice for

When you exercise your will power you release the power of life energy - not when you merely wish passively to be able to obtain an objective.

Do not measure your life by your goals but what you are doing to achieve them.

The way to grow grand is not: to demand. In life's every field you are what you yield.

I jogged for three miles once. It was the worst three hours of my life.

Good intentions and earnest effort are not enough. Only Jesus can make an otherwise futile life productive.

Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.

I haven't put much effort into my personal life and blithely believe it will turn out all right in the end.

If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.