Quotes About Effort

Some are 'industrious' and appear to love labor for its own sake, or perhaps because it keeps them out of worse mischief; to such I have at present nothing to say.

I foresee, that, if my wants should be much increased, the labor required to supply them would become a drudgery.

find it labor enough to subdue and cultivate a few cubic feet of flesh.

We are made to exaggerate the importance of what work we do; and yet how much is not done by us.

Mas o trabalho manual, mesmo quando se torna quase enfadonho e pesado, talvez nunca seja a pior forma de ociosidade

Do empenho vem a sabedoria e a pureza; da preguiça a ignorância e a sensualidade

Do empenho vem a sabedoria e a pureza; da preguiça a ignorância e a sensualidade. Uma pessoa impura é universalmente preguiçosa, que se senta junto à estufa, deita-se ao calor do sol, repousa sem estar cansada. Se vocês querem evitar a impureza e todos os pecados, que trabalhem com empenho, mesmo que seja limpando um estábulo. A natureza é difícil de vencer, mas deve ser vencida.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy looking for it.

We are made to exaggerate the importance of what work we do; and yet how much is not done by us! or

I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.

Debemos interesarnos por nuestro país como si fuera nuestro padre y si en algún momento nos negamos a honrarle con nuestro amor o nuestro esfuerzo, debemos, sin embargo, respetarle y educar al alma en cuestiones de conciencia y religión, y no en deseos de poder ni de beneficio propio.

The incessant anxiety and strain of some is a well-nigh incurable form of disease. We are made to exaggerate the importance of what work we do; and yet how much is not done by us!

Os homens trabalham à sombra de um erro, lançando ao solo para adubo o que têm de melhor. Por uma sina ilusória, vulgarmente chamada necessidade, desgastam-se a amontoar tesouros que a traça e a ferrugem estragarão e que surgem ladrões para roubar. É uma vida de imbecis, como perceberão ao fim dela, se não antes.

Any experiment that can benefit by one hairsbreadth any single human life is a thousand times worth trying.

To retrieve the ill consequences of a foolish conduct, and by struggling manfully with distress to subdue it, is one of the noblest efforts of wisdom and virtue. Whoever, therefore, calls such a man fortunate, is guilty of no less impropriety in speech than he would be who should call the statuary or the poet fortunate who carved a Venus or who writ an Iliad.

There is actually no limit to the amount of work to be done. Work creates work. What A produces constitutes the demand for what B produces.

a man will put forth greater efforts to save himself from ruin than he will merely to improve his position.

A menudo, incluso hace más provechosa la especulación que el esfuerzo productor.

Excellence does not require perfection.

If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.

I have in my own fashion learned the lesson that life is effort, unremittingly repeated.

Take the word for it of a man who has made his way inch by inch, and does not believe that we'll wake up to find our work done because we've lain all night a-dreaming of it; anything worth doing is devilish hard to do!

We work in the dark -- we do what we can -- we give what we have.

My dear young lady,' said her distinguished friend, 'isn't to live exactly what I'm trying to persuade you to take the trouble to do?