Quotes About Effort

Activity is the only road to knowledge.

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

I will give you the best I have.

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.

Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses.

In those things toward which we exerted our best endeavors we succeeded.

The only failure is not to try

To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.

There may be arrogance – and the laziness of someone who is indefatigable when doing what he enjoys, but only when doing that.

He was one of the fortunate few for whom there simply was no discernible line between work and play, between creation and recreation.

When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target.

Many people fail not so much because of their mistakes; they fail because they are afraid to try.

You never help others by allowing them to getaway with giving less than their best efforts.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

There is a saying attributed to him that helps explain his thinking: "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Are you okay?" "I'm tired. My knee is hurting again and I'm trying to teleport myself upstairs." "Um, Kate, you can't do that." "I know. But I'm trying very hard. Let me know if I start fading?

Just saying, you have to pull your own weight. A hot body and flirting will only get you so far.

Nothing is free. If you want it, you have to fight for it.