Quotes About Effort

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world, we must do something.

Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

If you have something to do that is worthwhile doing, don't talk about it ... do it.

Talking is easy, action difficult.

One's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into action ... which bring results.

Everyone must row with the oars he has.

What does so-called success or failure matter if only you have succeeded in doing the thing you set out to do. The doing is all that really counts.

It's not enough to just swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let it fly.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood or exaggeration in it.

Great is the road I climb, but... the garland offered by an easier effort is not worth the gathering.

The man who fails because he aims astray, or because he does not aim at all, is to be found everywhere.

Life has ... taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.

Try thyself first, and after call in God. For to the worker God himself lends aid.

We know the good, we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring it to achievement.

I'm a great believer in luck. I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

The heights by men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.

The mind reaches great heights only by spurts.

Happiness is something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something; to secure it in this world, we must do something.

If I were to suggest a general rule for happiness, I would say "Work a little harder; Work a little longer; Work!"

Happiness ... loves to see men work. She loves sweat, weariness, self-sacrifice. She will not be found in the palaces, but lurking in cornfields and factories, and hovering over littered desks.

Every job has drudgery. ... The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lie happiness.