Quotes About Effort

Get on yo job little man this ain't Saturday

Man wasn't made to inherit Paradise without effort. Rather, he was made to conquer Paradise, after proving his worthiness of it.

God knows I gave my best in baseball at all times and no man on earth can truthfully judge me otherwise.

The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

Nothing is too high for a man to reach, but he must climb with care and confidence

Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?

As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.

Men expect too much, do too little.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

Nothing falls into a man's lap from heaven. It is from labour that life grows.

You should know how many incompetent men I had to compete with-in vain.

Man has become great through struggle

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.

I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.

It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it.

An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

Man is made for error; it enters his mind naturally, and he discovers a few truths only with the greatest effort.

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

Endurance? You've only got to get out there and do it. Face up to it: man was meant to run.

The central conception of Man in the Gospels is that he is an unfinished creation capable of reaching a higher level by a definite evolution which must begin by his own efforts.

Fortune may crowd a man's life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.