Quotes About Effort

The haves and the have-nots can often be traced back to the dids and the did-nots.

This guy put the suck in success.

Somebodys said that it couldn't be done, But he with a chuckle replied That "maybe it couldn't," but he would be one Who wouldn't say so till he'd tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin On his face. If he worried he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done, and he did it.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtures are of no avail.

Borne the burden and heat of the day.

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

Just do your best today and tomorrow will come ... tomorrow's going to be a busy day, a happy day.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and there is an invisible labour.

The extra calories needed for one hour of intense mental effort would be completely met by eating one oyster cracker or one half of a salted peanut.

He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound.

One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say, What is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time; we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Tis a lesson you should heed, Try, try, try again If at first you don't succeed, Try, try, try again.

To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth.

All wealth is the product of labor

Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

You have to pay the price - but if you do you can only win.

Imposing limitations on yourself is cowardly because it protects you from having to try, and perhaps failing.

Slang is language which takes off its coat, spits on its hands - and goes to work.

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

After fifty years of living, it occurs to me that the most significant thing that people do is go to work, whether it is to go to work on their novel or at the assembly plant or fixing somebody's teeth.

I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven't just been sitting on my ass all afternoon.