Quotes About Effort

Men can always fight, Your Grace. Ask rather if we can win. Dying is easy, but victory comes hard.

On the Wall, a man gets only what he earns,

Hard things only grow harder if y ou put them off.

If it were easy all men would do it.

Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared. a

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

It is one of the sad ironies of life that one has to make money in order to spend time but waste time in order to make money. In

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

Today's work does not make us the persons we can be. Work is simply the price to be paid. Having earned our daily bread, we can turn to our daily play.

As I like to put it, we have hit pay dirt. The effort to cure the resource curse is a good example of what private foundations working with NGOs can accomplish.

It took ten months for me to learn to tie a lace; I must have howled with rage and frustration. But one day I could tie my laces. I profoundly distrust the pedagogy of ease.

I appreciate failure. Failure means that an attempt was made, and a lesson can be learned. As long as we're alive after the effort, there is a chance for success the next time around.

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation -- veneer isn't worth anything.

'Twas I that beat the bush,The bird to others flew.

Nowadays the seminaries turn out little choirboys, little ragamuffins who think they're working harder than anybody because they never get anything done.

A mans life is interesting primarily when he has failedI well know. For its a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed --I well know. For it is a sign that he has tried to surpass himself.