Quotes About Effort

Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.

The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.

Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.

No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him; there is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil!

If you are doing your best, you will not have time to worry about failure.

That man is blest Who does his best And leaves the rest, Then-do not worry.

The game is not worth the candle.

Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly; 'tis dearness only that gives everything its value.

Excellence costs a great deal.

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

It is in the hard rockpile labour of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing comes in.

I work every day - or at least I force myself into office or room. I may get nothing done, but you don't earn bonuses without putting in time. Nothing may come for three months, but you don't earn the fourth without it.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

The world moves along, not merely by the gigantic shoves of its hero-workers, but by the aggregate tiny pushes of every honest worker whatever.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough.

If at first you don't succeed, try a little ardor.

If at first you don't succeed, try two more times so that your result is statistically significant.

If at first you don't succeed, pay someone else to do it for you.

Sloth is the mother of poverty.

Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out.

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.

Sve su Drine ovog svijeta krive; nikada se one ne?e mo?i sve ni potpuno ispraviti; nikada ne smijemo prestati da ih ispravljamo.