Quotes About Effort

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter; we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.

In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak.

No one knows what he can to do until he tries.

The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one ... the more active and swift the latter is, the further he will go astray.

What must be, shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles is little more than choice to him that is willing.

Heaven ne'er helps the man who will not help himself.

It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well.

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

To be ambitious for wealth, and yet always expecting to be poor; to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for, is like trying to reach east by traveling west. There is no philosophy which will help a man to succeed when he is always doubting his ability to do so, and thus attracting failure. No matter how hard you work for success, if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.

The British are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.

What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.

A faint endeavor ends in a sure defeat.

Enthusiasm for one's goal to lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.

Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.

We must never despair; our situation has been compromising before, and it has changed for the better; so I trust it will again. If difficulties arise, we must put forth new exertion and proportion our efforts to the exigencies of the times.

Man errs as long as he struggles.

He only is exempt from failures who makes no effort.

A good marksman may miss.

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried.

Not all who seem to fail have failed indeed. Not all who fail have therefore worked in vain. There is no failure for the good and brave.

Men must try and try again.

A mistake is not a failure, but evidence that someone tried to do something.

Man must strive, and in striving, he must err.